Youth Organize Peace Fairs Focusing on Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

On September 14, SGI-Philippines youth held their second Peace Fair, marking the 68th anniversary of second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda’s September 8, 1957, Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Held in Manila, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and Davao, the events were attended by some 600 people.

The peace fair held at the SGI-Philippines Manila International Peace Center featured a lecture by Dr. Loreta Navarro-Castro, founding director of the Center for Peace Education at Miriam College, titled the “Reality of Nuclear Weapons Today: Why Should We Care?” In her lecture, she described nuclear weapons as the most inhumane and indiscriminate tools of destruction ever created. The exhibition “Everything You Treasure—For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons,” jointly created by the SGI (Soka Gakkai International) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), was also on display at the venue.