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The Ikeda Center is an institute for peace, learning, and dialogue located in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1993, we have been engaging diverse scholars, activists, and social innovators in the search for the ideas and solutions that will assist in the peaceful evolution of humanity ... read more

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“Be the heart of a network of global citizens

Be a bridge for dialogue between civilizations

Be a beacon lighting the way to a century of life ”

- Daisaku Ikeda

WHAT'S NEW?

Two new interviews now online!
In April we talked to Elise Boulding's biographer Mary Lee Morrison about the core characteristics of peace building. In June we talked to Gonzalo Obelleiro of Teachers College about the moral, social, and aesthetic dimensions of value-creating education.

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We invite you to become a fan of Dialogue Path Press, the publishing arm of the Ikeda Center.

Into Full Flower: Making Peace Cultures Happen by Elise Boulding and Daisaku Ikeda. Now available for purchase! New: Coverage of the March 6 book talk event

The 6th Annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, called "John Dewey, Daisaku Ikeda, and the Quest for a New Humanism," attracted a capacity crowd to the Center on November 14. Read about the event here! New: Steven Rockefeller's introductory lecture

2010 Focus An introduction to the Center's inquiry for 2010, "The Democratic Spirit," is posted at our Current Focus page. Articles and essays exploring the theme are posted here.

2009 Archives During 2009 the Ikeda Center investigated the theme "Humanizing Our Lives, Humanizing Our World." All of the articles and essays created for the focus are located here.

2008 Archives

Articles and essays from the 2008 focus, "Understanding Death, Appreciating Life," are archived here.

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IN MEMORIAM

Elise Boulding (1920 - 2010)
Matriarch of the twentieth century peace research movement and dear friend of the Ikeda Center, Dr. Elise Boulding died on June 24, 2010. We have posted a statement from her family here. On July 6, the Boston Globe published this obituary. Our Thinkers page features orginal contributions from Dr. Boulding.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Exploring the Democratic Spirit

These readings introduce diverse facets of the Democratic Spirit, the Center's focus for 2010.

Primary source readings include John Dewey's late essay Creative Democracy--The Task Before Us and Jane Addams' introduction to her 1902 book Democracy and Social Ethics. We have also posted Langston Hughes' provocative, profound poem of 1938, Let America Be America Again.

Theorist of democracy Vincent Harding will be among the speakers at this fall's Ikeda Forum on the Democratic Spirit. Our site features this interview with Dr. Harding on the subject of nonviolent social change and this talk on the birth of a new America.

Our site also features original material from the other speakers scheduled for the 2010 Forum.

Larry Hickman contributed The Lasting Legacy of Dewey, written in 2002 for the 50th anniversary of Dewey's death. Also from 2002: a lecture on Dewey's educational legacy called "Democracy and Global Citizenship." Sarah Wider gave this 2006 keynote address exploring "Emerson and the Power of Imagination." Anita Patterson wrote the essay "True Books in a True Spirit," spoke at the 2007 Ikeda Forum, and participated in the event celebrating our 2009 publication Creating Waldens. Virginia Benson is interviewed here about the Center's commitment to dialogue as the surest path to peace.

Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
396 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: (617) 491.1090 Fax: (617) 491.1169