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Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace
Urbain Olivier Ed
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Description for Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace
Paperback. The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. This book offers detailed exploration of this crucial aspect of Ikeda's philosophy of peace. Editor(s): Urbain, Olivier. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPQ; HREP; HRLP1; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. However, far from constituting abstract plans for the future of the world, Ikeda's dialogues represent very concrete and focused activity. He concentrates on one significant individual (such as Joseph Rotblat, Linus Pauling and Mikhail Gorbachev) at a time, or sometimes small groups, in order to attempt the transformation of thinking and society through intense discussion. This book offers detailed exploration of this crucial aspect of Ikeda's philosophy of peace. Contributors examine topics such ... Read more
The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. However, far from constituting abstract plans for the future of the world, Ikeda's dialogues represent very concrete and focused activity. He concentrates on one significant individual (such as Joseph Rotblat, Linus Pauling and Mikhail Gorbachev) at a time, or sometimes small groups, in order to attempt the transformation of thinking and society through intense discussion. This book offers detailed exploration of this crucial aspect of Ikeda's philosophy of peace. Contributors examine topics such ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780765723
SKU
V9781780765723
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About Urbain Olivier Ed
Olivier Urbain is Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He is the author of Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace: Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship (2010) and the editor of Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics (2008), both published by I.B.Tauris.
Reviews for Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace
Important...Insightful...A must-read for anyone interested in the role of dialogue in diplomacy, Buddhism, education and crisis management. Lou Marinoff, Professor of Philosophy, The City College of New York This book is of tremendous value Ela Gandhi, social activist, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, former Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology and former Member of Parliament, South Africa ... Read more