Education for Sustainable Development
October 2004
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Nonviolence Seminar in India
Professor Swaminathan speaking at the seminar
Bharat (India) Soka Gakkai (BSG) sponsored a seminar on nonviolence at its International Peace Center in New Delhi on July 7. Three leading Indian thinkers--M. S. Swaminathan, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs and a distinguished plant geneticist known as the father of the Green Revolution in India; Salman Khurshid, former deputy foreign minister of India; and veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, formerly editor of The Indian Express and High Commissioner of India to the U.K.--discussed SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's 2004 Peace Proposal, "Inner Transformation: Creating a Global Groundswell for Peace."
Some 250 people, including scholars and officials from various UN and non-governmental organizations, attended the seminar. They viewed Another Way of Seeing Things, the award-winning film based on an essay from Mr. Ikeda's book, The World Is Yours to Change. Filmed in Turkey in 2003, Another Way of Seeing Things challenges racial and religious stereotyping. It tells the story of British historian Arnold Toynbee's experiences as a journalist covering the Greco-Turkish War of the 1920s and his attempts to counteract the prevailing bias against Turks, and against Muslims in general.
After the Doordarshan national broadcasting station in India aired Another Way of Seeing Things in February 2004, the English school affiliated with the British Embassy began using the publication as a textbook. The Delhi Public School Society also used the film during a training session for English teachers and plans to show it to students in over 100 associated schools.
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