The Poetic Heart: Connecting Humanity
January 2008
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Youth Take the Lead in Antinuclear Movement
Celebrating the opening of the exhibition
[©Seikyo Shimbun]
From September 8-16, SGI-UK hosted an antinuclear exhibition produced by its youth members at its South London culture center, which was visited by some 2,000 people. Dr. Robert Hinde, Chair of the British Pugwash Group and professor of zoology at Cambridge University, gave a keynote speech. Dr. Hinde spoke about the cruelty of war through his own wartime experiences, as well as his feelings on visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. "In order to eliminate human suffering, war itself must be eliminated," he stressed.
The first Pugwash Conference was held in 1957, the same year second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda made his antinuclear declaration, entrusting the task of achieving the abolition of nuclear weapons to young people. The renowned astronomer, Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, whose dialogue with SGI President Daisaku Ikeda has been published as Space and Eternal Life, also visited the exhibit.
