Ikeda Center Hosts Educating for Peace Conference

On April 25 and 26, the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, an affiliate of the Soka Gakkai, hosted its second Educating for Peace Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Middle and high school teachers, researchers and students discussed approaches to peace education aimed at raising awareness of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. During the event, a message from atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura, founder of the Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace, was introduced. In the message she said, “The most important element in disarmament education is being able to imagine the pain of others.”

The event was co-organized by the Ikeda Center, the Soka Institute for Global Solutions at Soka University of America and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) among others.