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Meeting a core challenge put forth in Daisaku Ikeda’s 1993 Harvard lecture, "Mahayana Buddhism and 21st Century Civilization," the third Dialogue Nights explored the topic “What Can Death Teach Us About Life? A Conversation.”

The afternoon after Andrea Bartoli delivered the 2024 Indigo Talk, called “Opening Pathways to Peace: The Role of Dialogue in Times of Conflict,” he engaged in a Zoom-based dialogue with several members of the Ikeda Center’s youth committee. Read highlights from their conversation here.

In the spring of 2024, the Ikeda Center hosted a two-part Global Citizens seminar, featuring the participation of several Boston-area doctoral students. Here, four of the participants reflect on ways the seminar helped them think about their research in new ways.

In this essay, the Center's summer 2024 program intern Lanre Adeyanju, a rising senior at Harvard, reflects on her experience being part of the Ikeda Center community.

The 2024 edition of the annual Indigo Talks featured a longtime friend of the Ikeda Center, Dr. Andrea Bartoli, whose talk was called “Opening Pathways to Peace: The Role of Dialogue in Times of Conflict.”

In this essay, the Center's Mitch Bogen looks at key episodes from Daisaku Ikeda's life and career as well as a number of his personal essays to see what they can tell us about his core values and convictions as a peacebuilder. Above all, Ikeda sought to personalize questions of war and peace, violence and nonviolence.

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.

Tony Jenkins is Assistant Professor in the Program on Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. In this 2024 interview, he reflects on his path to peace education, core principles that guide the work, and the unique contributions of seminal figures Elise Boulding and Betty Reardon.

We are pleased to share our NEW ground rules for genuine dialogue which are informed by our Center's dialogue commitments.