(2/2) Referring to Daisaku Ikeda’s dialogues with Pugwash co-founder Joseph Rotblat and scientist Linus Pauling, Dr. Al-Shahristani emphasized the importance of collaboration between scientists and people of faith to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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(2/2) Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada and Masami Nasu, Women’s Division leader for Japan, attended the ceremony along with 270 leaders from 75 countries and territories who were visiting Japan for a training course.

(3/3) ...Soka Gakkai share a deep commitment to nurturing future generations to work toward a nuclear-free world.
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(2/3)...Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada. They discussed the importance of dialogue and mutual trust in advancing the cause of nuclear abolition. Reflecting on his visit earlier that day to the Soka School in Tokyo, Dr. Potter commented that the Center and...
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(3/3) Representatives from both sides gave presentations on their initiatives to promote friendship between the two countries. On Oct. 31, the delegation also visited Hubei University, where they held group discussions with students.
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(2/3) Professor Li Exian of the School of Foreign Languages at CCNU recalled his encounter with Daisaku Ikeda and expressed his hope that younger generations would carry on Mr. Ikeda’s legacy and further Sino-Japanese relations.
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(3/3) ...a Kenyan organization focused on advancing sustainability, spoke about waste management initiatives in Kenya.

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(2/3) UoN Professors Miriam Maranga Musonye and Stella Mukhovi Mikalitsa gave opening remarks. Junichi Ida, Vice President of Soka University, delivered a lecture, and Jane Achieng, Head of ESG Advisory and Technology Solutions of TakaTaka ni Mali,...

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Read Enza Pellecchia’s full speech in Italian and Japanese here.
meetingsforpeace.santegidio.org/pageID/32061...
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On Oct. 27, Hirotsugu Terasaki, Soka Gakkai Vice President, and Alberto Aprea, President of the Italian Buddhist Institute Soka Gakkai, met with Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, former Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, in Rome.
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On Oct. 28th, a roundtable titled “Justice Does Not Kill: Abolishing the Death Penalty” was held, where Enza Pellecchia, Professor at the University of Pisa and SGI representative, spoke on the death penalty from the Buddhist perspective of the dignity of life.
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Flore Ghetti of the SGI Office for UN Affairs served as facilitator.

On Sept. 25, Ms. Ghetti also joined a dialogue session that explored the moral dimensions of the climate crisis and strategies for mobilizing action.

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It proposes two key actions:
(2) Establishing a permanent youth council within the UNFCCC Secretariat so that young people can help drive transformative climate action.

Read the full statement: www.sokaglobal.org/contact-us/m...

It proposes two key actions:
(1) Mobilizing civil society—including faith communities—to unite the will of people everywhere in pursuit of a future of hope and security, and...

(4/4) ...and Sanie Romero de Velázquez, Rector of Ibero-American University, delivered the keynote lecture on the role of education in peacebuilding.

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(3/4) On Sept. 19, the exhibition was displayed at the National Library, with students from 2 high schools in attendance. Alberto Sandoval, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay, gave a speech,...

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