Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue

The Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue (previously known as the Boston Research Center for the Twenty-first Century) was established by Daisaku Ikeda in 1993 in Cambridge Massachusetts, and seeks to promote dialogue between scholars, activists, and representatives of various cultural, philosophical, and religious traditions in order to establish a common basis from which people might prevent war and promote respect for life and the earth. Sociologist Elise Boulding moved to the Boston area in 1993 and established a close relationship with the Center.
The center cosponsored a lecture with Columbia Teachers College called “Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship; a conference of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies on the theme of “Socially Engaged Buddhism and Christianity; a conference on “Global Accords for Sustainable Development; a consultation along with Boston University on the subject of “Religion and Transnational Civil Society in the Twenty-first Century”; A series of workshops called the Massachusetts Conference on Women; a traveling multimedia exhibit entitled “Ecology and Human Life; and a program called “Gandhi and the Future of Non-Violence.”
Representatives also attended the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the American Academy of Religion Conference in New Orleans. The themes of care for the earth, nonviolence, abolishing war and the Earth Charter dominate the work of the Ikeda Center.
Ikeda is president of the Soka Gakkai International, the largest Buddhist lay organization.

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