Creating Peace-can One Person Make A Difference?

How we as individuals can contribute to building a peaceful global community by beginning in our immediate localities.

Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist philosopher, author, peace-builder, poet and founder of a number of cultural, educational and peace research institutions around the world.

Since 1983, he has presented an annual peace proposal to the United Nations offering ways forward in tackling global challenges. Ikeda sets out a clear and concise vision for how all people from world leaders to ordinary citizens of countries across the world can work together to create a more peaceful society.

Robert Harrap will introduce and discuss Ikeda’s 2015 Peace Proposal, titled “A Shared Pledge for a More Humane Future: To Eliminate Misery from the Earth.” This year’s proposal looks at three themes:
1. The re-humanisation of politics and economics
2. Creating a chain reaction of empowerment
3. The expansion of friendship across national, cultural and religious differences to build a world of coexistence.

Ikeda suggests ways that individuals can contribute towards shared action which will lead to greater solidarity and the elimination of needless suffering.

Harrap has been General Director of the socially engaged Buddhist movement SGI- UK since December 2013. Before that he spent 16 years as a barrister in chambers in London’s Inner Temple, working in the area of employment, social housing and human rights.
He appears regularly on BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought.

The event is being organised by the Lewisham West chapter of SGI-UK; it is for everyone of any or no faith who has an interest in furthering the causes of peace, dialogue, respect and trust within and between our communities.