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Peace Symposium in India

Bharat (India) Soka Gakkai (BSG) and the Times Foundation of the Times Group, India's largest professional media group, cosponsored a peace symposium on August 4 based on the 2005 peace proposal by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda, "Toward a New Era of Dialogue: Humanism Explored." Excerpts from the proposal were printed in The Times of India that day. Some 700 guests attended the seminar. 

In a keynote address, Dr. R. K. Pachauri, director-general of the Tata Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), North America, and chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called for a review of human activities based on fundamental truths to ensure the welfare of all beings on the planet.

Dr. L. M. Singhvi, member of parliament and formerly India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, said that unlike the West-espoused movement for rationality which sees a lessening of religious influence, Dr. Ikeda's humanism belongs to the Asian tradition--humanism that stems from a desire to build bridges and establish equations of tolerance in the world.

Former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Lalit Mansingh affirmed that dialogue is fundamental to diplomacy, and that Dr. Ikeda's pleas for a multilateral disarmament process coincide with what India has been calling for for the past half-century.

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