Amplify Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition takes place in New York
Sixteen young people from 13 countries gathered in New York from June 16 through 21 for the 2017 Amplify Youth Summit. Amplify is a...
Youth, Peace & Security in Asia and the Pacific
A regional consultation on youth, peace & security in Asia and the Pacific was held by the United Nations from May 16 to 19 in Bangkok,...
Faith Groups Deeply Concerned About Nuclear Weapons
“We reiterate our shared stance that nuclear weapons are incompatible with the values upheld by our respective faith traditions. We...
Historic United Nations' Negotiations to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons
The first session of the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards...
Time for a treaty to bring an end to nuclear danger by Daisaku Ikeda
“Last December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution calling for the start of negotiations on a legally...
International Conference in Nagasaki – towards a world free of nuclear weapons
The 26th United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues was held in Nagasaki from December 11 to 13, co-organized by the United Nations...
“The Fierce Urgency of Nuclear Zero: Changing the Discourse.”
The symposium, hosted by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), brought nuclear disarmament academics and activists together for an...
Faith Communities Submit Statement in Support of the Negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Ban in 2017
At the 2016 UN General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), SGI, together with other faith based...
“A way forward to eliminate nuclear weapons”
SGI together with three Norwegian peace organizations – ICAN Norway, No to Nuclear Weapons (NNW) and the Norwegian Peace Association (NPA)...
“Building a nuclear-weapon-free world”
As divisions between States on how to achieve nuclear disarmament grow, countries like Kazakhstan must lead the way to common ground and...
The Need to Transform Disregard for Human Life
The following is a statement issued on June 15 issue of Seikyo Shimbun, in which Kazuo Ishiwatari, chair of the Soka Gakkai Peace...
“Moral imperative of ridding the world of nuclear arms” by Daisaku Ikeda
Today, many countries have started to advance toward the shared goal of a world free from nuclear weapons. What is needed now is to...
Faith Communities Joint Statement and SGI’s Working Papers Presented at the Open-ended Working Group
The second session of the 2016 UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations was held...
