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Buddhist Leader's 2009 Peace Proposal Highlights Nuclear Disarmament, 'Humanitarian Competition'

Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, February 11th, 2009

On January 26, Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist association, issued his annual peace proposal entitled "Toward Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History."

Analyzing the global economic crisis, Ikeda questions humanity's abstract love of money, calling for a focus on the real needs of real people and stressing the need to strengthen social safety nets. To resolve the crisis of capitalism, he advocates a paradigm shift to "humanitarian competition," a concept first proposed by Soka Gakkai founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi in 1903, in which nations and individuals compete to contribute the most to global society.

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