Soka Gakkai International to Support Nobel Peace Prize Forum and Youth Dialogue with Hibakusha in Oslo

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Five hundred people will attend the Forum in person, and SGI is also cohosting the Facebook live: https://youtu.be/YpM2jO6PK7s 

The afternoon will see a High Level Panel titled "Avoiding Nuclear War: The Case for No First Use," co-organized by the University of Oslo, Peacebook and SGI, in association with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Aimed at risk reduction and confidence-building, the workshop will bring some of the same speakers together with other experts for in-depth discussion under the Chatham House Rule.

In parallel, SGI will organize a Youth Dialogue with Hibakusha at the University of Oslo, involving Dr. Tomonaga and Ms. Ogura together with local high school and university students and SGI youth members in Oslo.

The Soka Gakkai began gathering survivors' testimonies in the early 1970s and has produced numerous related resources:

- Video testimonies of women hibakusha with original Japanese audio and subtitles in Japanese, English, Chinese (trad. and simpl.), Spanish and French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy675AMN4zE&list=PLY61xqKoCKar6KmGgiHTa4JCXbgui9Uh8 

- Video testimony of Keiko Ogura in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNh1ceijtig&list=PLY61xqKoCKar6KmGgiHTa4JCXbgui9Uh8&index=9 

- Downloadable book Hiroshima and Nagasaki: That We Never Forget containing 50 testimonies in English
https://un-sgi.files.svdcdn.com/production/assets/downloads/Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-book.pdf?dm=1649103308 

The Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization has promoted nuclear weapons abolition for over 60 years as part of its activities to promote the culture of peace. SGI President Daisaku Ikeda (1928-2023) put forward detailed proposals for nuclear abolition in his 40 annual peace proposals and issued three statements calling for No First Use in 2022 and 2023. The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a global association linking Soka Gakkai organizations around the world and an NGO accredited with UN ECOSOC.

Contact:
Chie Sunada (available in Oslo from Dec. 8)
[phone] (WhatsApp)
sunada[at]soka.jp

Yuki Kawanaka
[phone]
kawanaka[at]soka.jp

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