Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
With John Dewey and Soka education providing a foundation, the Center seeks to define the essential character and purposes of education in the twenty-first century.
Isabel Nuñez is professor of educational studies and director of the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and co-editor, with Jason Goulah, of Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context.
Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston urges us to understand that education happens everywhere, not just in schools.
Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University talked about her conviction that effective peace education must include an understanding of the psychology of war.
Five educator-friends of the Ikeda Center offer personal reflections on what they see as the unique characteristics of soka, or value-creating, education, the approach to education first developed by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi in the early 20th century.
Committed to participating in the field in as many ways as possible, Dr. Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the Program on Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University, Managing Director of the International Institute on Peace Education, and the Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education.
At the time of this April 2012 interview the Rev. Victor Kazanjian was the dean of Intercultural Education & Religious and Spiritual Life and was co-director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College.
Dr. Vincent Harding (1931 - 2014) offered these remarks as closing speaker at the 5th Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, held at the Center on September 20, 2008.
The late Vito Perrone was Director of Teacher Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education when he delivered these acceptance remarks at the Ikeda Center's 4th Annual Global Citizen Award ceremony (1998).