Name: Anshul Sharma
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 57-64

This research paper proposes to critically analyze the theme of peace in the dialogues of Daisaku Ikeda, the founding President of SokaGakkai International (SGI), with the cutting-edge thinkers and leaders across the globe. SokaGakkai International is a Buddhist lay organization founded on lines of SokaGakkai(based on Nichiren Buddhism) to emphasize on human revolution and world peace. Daisaku Ikeda has had many open dialogues with various world leaders. Only few of all the dialogues are being analyzed in this research paper to discover the theme of peace in his life and efforts. This paper has been organized into three parts. Firstly, the general introduction to peace and its requirement in present context has been explained. The destructiveness of war and its futility usually tends to lead to a negative definition of peace. So the second part focuses on bibliographic events in the life of Daisaku Ikeda to analyse the theme of peace. In the third part, the researcher has attempted to critically evaluate few of the dialogues of Daisaku Ikeda with leaders worldwide. The role of dialoguehas emerged as a central theme in the search for enduring alternatives to violence and to war when other alternatives to peace have not been so effective in implementation. The attention to the role of dialogue has developed in different domains as a tool to establish and promote peace. This analysis points to the fact that sustainable peace can be endured by means of open and creative dialogue and that the establishment of a peaceful civilization depends in large measure on dialogue that is communicative and capable of sustaining a sense of trust and a responsiveness that makes everyone a protagonist for a culture of peace.
Keywords: Peace; Dialogue; Daisaku Ikeda; SokaGakkai International etc.