Peace Proposals

Every year, since 1983 SGI President Daisaku Ikeda has written and published a peace proposal which he has presented to the United Nations. Each proposal has a key theme which focuses on global issues affecting politicians, policy makers and individuals alike.  Overall these proposals explore the interrelation between core Buddhist concepts and the diverse challenges global society faces in the effort to realise peace and human security. In addition, President Ikeda has made proposals touching on specific issues affecting society such as education reform, the environment, the United Nations and nuclear abolition.

Below is a list of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s Peace Proposals – please click for a summary and/or the full text.

Peace Proposal 2012
Human Security and Sustainability: Sharing Reverence for the Dignity of Life

Synopsis

The economist Amartya Sen, a renowned advocate of the methods and approaches of human security, has emphasized "the dangers of sudden deprivation." Such unanticipated threats can take the form of natural disaster and conflict, and can also arise from economic crises and rapid environmental degradation brought about by climate change. It is crucial that we...

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Peace Proposal 2011
Toward a World of Dignity for All :The Triumph of the Creative Life

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International 

Synopsis

Our contemporary society is becoming increasingly fragmented as traditional family and community bonds break down. This is closely linked to a failure of communication, a breakdown of language as words become devalued and degraded.

Few have analyzed the vulnerability of...

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Peace Proposal 2010
Toward a New Era of Value Creation

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International 

Synopsis

We are living in an era marked by an absence of values, in which no measure of worth other than the monetary is recognized. Discussions of poverty and income disparity, for example, are cast solely in terms of monetary values, making them needlessly sterile and soulless.

Growing income...

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Peace Proposal 2009
Toward Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International 

Synopsis

The impact of the "once-in-a-century" financial meltdown has now spread to engulf the whole world. There are growing signs that the current financial turmoil is undermining the real economy, bringing about a global recession and driving up unemployment.

The main cause of the...
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Peace Proposal 2008
Humanizing Religion, Creating Peace

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

The optimism that greeted the end of the Cold War and the prospect of the creation of a new world order quickly dissolved, to be replaced by an overriding impression of global disorder. While initiatives continue in the quest for new and more inclusive ways of ordering global affairs, these must be...

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Peace Proposal 2007
Restoring the Human Connection: The First Step to Global Peace

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

The year 2007 marks fifty years since the second president of the Soka Gakkai, Josei Toda, made an historic declaration condemning nuclear weapons as "an absolute evil' and calling for their prohibition, stating he wished to rip out the claws that are hidden in their very depths.
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Peace Proposal 2006
A New Era of the People

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

The year 2005 was marked by a series of devastating natural disasters, continuing terror attacks and conflict, and the threat of virulent new diseases. These issues affect every one of us, with no respect for political or geographical borders; they are an integral aspect of globalization. But the...
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Peace Proposal 2005
Toward a New Era of Dialogue: Humanism Explored

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

There has been an extraordinary heightening of tensions around the world since September 11, 2001. In many countries the priority accorded to national security has been used to justify curtailment of rights and freedoms, while energy and attention have been distracted from efforts to address such...
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Peace Proposal 2004
Inner Transformation: Creating a Global Groundswell for Peace

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

In recent years, international society has been convulsed by new threats and divisive debate over how best to respond to them. We cannot turn a blind eye; at the same time, however, it is clear that an exclusive reliance on military force will not bring about a fundamental solution. There is also...
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Peace Proposal 2003
A Global Ethic of Coexistence: Toward a "Life-Sized" Paradigm for Our Age

by Daisaku Ikeda President, Soka Gakkai International

Synopsis

The high hopes with which we greeted the start of the twenty-first century seem to have been replaced with a sense of frustration and hopelessness. Although the two key themes of the new century need to be the culture of peace and dialogue among civilizations, it appears we have yet to free...
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