Updates

On June 5, 2025,  Professor Darren Kew delivered a talk called “Reflections on Religion and Peacebuilding,” drawn from his many decades’ experience with conflict resolution, which explored how religions offer unique ways to help even the most intransigent conflict situations get unstuck.

Nearly one year to the day after the Ikeda Center’s groundbreaking May 2024 public forum on the power and promise of nuclear disarmament education, the Center co-sponsored a panel discussion on this essential endeavor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Join us on Friday, May 9, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Hall, for a timely conversation with educators and nuclear disarmament experts on the critical role of education in fostering civic responsibility in students and creating a world free of nuclear weapons. 

For the second Dialogue Nights of 2025, the Ikeda Center invited Eliza O’Neil of the Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) to introduce her organization’s unique approach to the art and practice of dialogue.

The first Dialogue Nights of 2025, held on January 31, focused on a key aspect of becoming more effective practitioners of dialogue, namely, understanding one’s communication style.

Our 2024-25 Winter Book Sale features all of our Dialogue Path Press titles for 50% off the list price.

During the 2024 Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, education professor Lauren Leigh Kelly, organizational development and conflict resolution specialist Eden Weitzman, and nuclear disarmament advocate Emma Pike each discussed how they employ their imaginations and pursue peacebuilding work in their respective fields of endeavor. 

The second edition of the Ikeda Center’s new Dialogue Nights Lite series was held on October 4, 2024, providing attendees with the chance to hone their dialoguing skills.

A high-spirited crowd of more than 50 attendees gathered for this August 2024 event, which focused on the ways that all of us can healthily navigate the modern world, full of so many anxiety-inducing factors and forces.