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SOKA GAKKAI INTERNATIONAL OF NEW ZEALAND PARTICIPATES IN THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR 1   SGI at the WW100 Commemoration Peace Conference SGI will participate in the WW100 Commemoration international peace conference which will be held in Auckland on 19-20 September at the Auckland University of Technology. The conference which is entitled “World Without War – Action for Peace,” has invited Mr. Kimiaki Kawai, Programme Director for Peace Affairs of SGI Japan, who will be a keynote speaker at the interfaith session at the conference.  He will speak on SGI’s collaboration with the world’s faith communities to eliminate nuclear weapons and prevent the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of their use. Mr. Kawai was involved at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in December 2014 at which representatives from a diverse…

Soka Gakkai International of New Zealand joins Wellington Mayor’s Peace network Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown addresses the peace hui (more…)

BE A HERO FOR NUCLEAR ZERO STAND UP FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD. ADD YOUR VOICE. Nuclear weapons threaten everything we love and treasure in this world. Sign the petition to support the case with the International Court of Justice - click on "Read the full post" below. (more…)

International Women’s Day celebration On 8 March 2015, SGINZ Wellington co-sponsored the International Women’s Day celebration at the Newtown Festival in Wellington.  SGINZ representatives have been involved in the planning committee for International Women’s Day activities as part of the Wellington Women’s Walk for Peace group (WWW4P) since 2013.  WWW4P consists of a group of women and organisations including Women’s Refuge, Shanti and the Daya Trust who are committed to promoting the culture of peace.  The activities are also supported by Wellington Mayor Celia Wade Brown and the British High Commissioner to New Zealand. (more…)

A new book called Waking the Buddha by Clark Strand looks at the SGI movement.  

On March 16, kosen-rufu day, New Zealand’s largest independent online news site Scoop.co.nz published its interview with President Ikeda. The interview covers The role of human dignity, passive violence, religious cooperation, the internet and the water hemisphere[with New Zealand in the centre] in the quest for global harmony.

November 18, 2013 marks the 83rd anniversary of the founding of Soka Gakkai in Japan. To commemorate this significant date and its development as a global movement for peace, culture and education; SGINZ will be hosting a special lecture by Professor Peter Lineham. The event aims to jointly celebrate interfaith humanism and Soka Gakkai founding day. The event is opened to invited guests such as the Interfaith Council, the Peace Foundation, United Nations Association (NZ Branch), SGINZ members and the general public. The Theme of the Meeting is FOUNDATION DAY CELEBRATION: SGI Humanism in the 21st Century. (more…)