NEWS
Freed American arrives home from North Korea
The Summit invites President Obama
11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Hiroshima 12th-14th November
Barack Obama calls for Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed
Choose Peace—End the Seige on Gaza
Two months have passed since Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, with very tragic results—including nine deaths and 40 injuries. Yet, as this week’s events quietly reveal, it seems Israel will get away with its blatant disrespect for international law and not be held accountable for this disaster.
It was reported on Monday [...]
Dalai Lama to visit Japan
Dharamsala, June 12 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama will leave here for a week-long visit to Japan. The Tibetan leader is scheduled to visit several Buddhist temples and give religious sermons starting June 20.
The 1989 Nobel peace laureate has been invited by Zenkoji temple, a 7th century Buddhist temple in Nagano city, to deliver [...]
Buddhist Leader Pushes for Nuclear Abolition Treaty
IDN Special
IDN-InDepth NewsInterview of Daisaku Ikeda
BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) – An eminent Buddhist thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has called for an early start of negotiations for a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, to coincide — ideally — with the 70th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
An international [...]
Former President Clinton asks nations to keep funding AIDS programs
CNN) –July 20, 2010
With the promise of coming AIDS vaccines, former President Bill Clinton urged the world’s nations Monday not to give up on funding to prevent a calamity.
Overall support for global AIDS efforts from donor nations flattened in the midst of last year’s global economic crisis, according to a recent analysis of 2009 funding [...]
Walter Veltroni, Co-President of the Summit
Dear friends,
A few months ago, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tenth edition of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was held in Berlin.
That occasion, attended by President Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, De Klerk, Yunus, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and many other men and women who have [...]
Mikhail Gorbachev on Afghanistan
by NEW YORK TIMES
Afghanistan is in turmoil, with tensions rising and people dying every day. Many of them — including women, children and the elderly — have nothing in common with terrorists or militants.
The government is losing control of its territory: of the 34 provinces, the Taliban controls a dozen. The production and export of [...]
Albert Schweitzer Institute
Gorbachev Foundation
