Updates

For the fourth (2024) iteration of the annual Global Citizens Seminar, seven Boston-area doctoral students gathered at the Ikeda Center to share their own stories as global citizens and engage in dialogue on key issues and challenges in the endeavor to create local and global cultures of peace.

The June 2024 Dialogue Nights responded to the sense of isolation people feel even with the connectivity enabled by technology.

In May 2024 a group of students, scholars, and activists came together to make the case for educating as many people as possible not only about the imminent dangers and consequences of nuclear war, but also about the very real pathways to global nuclear disarmament.

The highest-attended Dialogue Nights since the easing of pandemic restrictions tackled the perennial question of how best to recognize one’s most authentic self and bring it to all one’s interactions.

In our introductory video staff members and friends from our network offer impressions of what makes the Ikeda Center unique.

The first Dialogue Nights of 2024 operated under the assumption that stress is, in the words of event moderator Preandra Noel, a “shared reality” for all of us these days, whether it’s “with work, with relationships,” or just with “the state of the world.”

On January 22, 2024, the Center hosted a nuclear disarmament seminar that brought together students from Soka University of America with representatives from Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winners of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. Read about it here!

The Ikeda Center's 30th anniversary slate of events concluded with a Dialogue Nights devoted to the topic: “The Courage to Dialogue: The Surest Path to Peace.”

To commemorate milestones in the Center’s history, founder Daisaku Ikeda, who died on November 15, often sent messages that explore key aspects of each occasion, with special emphasis on the core ideas and values that should guide our work.