Developing Creativity
January 2012
Banner photo: Aboriginal artist Charles Inkamala at work, Alice Springs, Australia [© Marianna Massey/Corbis]
"Our New Clear Future" Toward Nuclear Abolition
"Our New Clear Future" is a student-led dialogue campaign for nuclear abolition launched by SGI-USA in September 2011. The campaign was inspired by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's 2009 nuclear abolition proposal "Building Global Solidarity Toward Nuclear Abolition" and has two main aims. The first is to create a groundswell of public consensus toward nuclear abolition by 2015, when the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference is due to be held, and the second is to achieve the complete abolition of nuclear weapons by 2030.
Coinciding with this campaign, retired Army Colonel Paul Hughes, senior program officer at the United States Institute of Peace's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, gave a talk on September 11 at the SGI-USA Washington DC Culture Center. The talk focused on the issue of nuclear testing and its detrimental effects on people and the environment.
In reference to the New Clear campaign, Col. Hughes expressed the importance of having a vision of achieving nuclear abolition--even though this may seemingly appear unattainable--and encouraged the youth present not to be discouraged by the daunting task ahead of them.
Currently, SGI-USA youth members are taking the lead in introducing the "Our New Clear Future" campaign at their local SGI meetings and in engaging in dialogue with as many people as possible on this topic. They will also be giving presentations around the country at various SGI-USA events, such as "Rock the Era"--a youth initiative to promote world peace.
The "Our New Clear Future" campaign can be followed on Facebook and Twitter:
www.facebook.com/ANewClearFuture
www.twitter.com/anewclearfuture
