Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue
E-Newsletter Archives
Welcome to the Ikeda Center e-newsletter archives page. Launched in February 2008, the Center e-newsletter is designed to keep you up-to-date with our activities in support of peace, learning, and dialogue. Each issue includes links to articles and interviews with our contributors and friends, so please do some browsing. You'll encounter some inspiring ideas. Note: Prior to July 2009 we published under the name, Boston Research Center (BRC).
  • Issue # 1
  • 1) "Understanding Death, Appreciating Life"; 2) New peace proposal from Daisaku Ikeda;
    3) Interview with Amir Hussein on the Muslim-American experience; and 4) Randy Forsberg-Elise Boulding dialogue
    (Date: 02-08)

  • Issue # 2
  • 1) Dialogue series on death and life; 2) Paul Knitter and the global ethics classroom; 3) Nel Noddings on school reform and the ethics of care; and 4) Interviews exploring restorative justice
    (Date: 03-08)

  • Issue # 3
  • 1) Feature article-- "Learning to Learn About Death"; BRC @ PES--"Expanding Philosophical Horizons"; and 3) David T. Hansen of Teachers College on the ethical dimensions of education
    (Date: 05-08)

  • Issue # 4
  • 1) Feature article -- "Facing Death: A Path to Personal and Cultural Change"; 2) Announcing the new BRC website; 3) Announcing the October lecture with Yoichi Kawada and Mary Catherine Bateson
    (Date: 10-08)

  • Issue # 5
  • 1) "Enjoying the Rhythm of Birth and Death" with Yoichi Kawada and Mary Catherine Bateson; 2) Vincent Harding on the legacy of Martin Luther King; 3) Tricycle Magazine interview with BRC founder Daisaku Ikeda
    (12-08)

  • Issue # 6
  • 1) Introducing the BRC's 2009 Theme, "Humanizing Our Lives, Humanizing Our World"; 2) Interview with Neva Goodwin on contextual economics; 3) Daisaku Ikeda's 2009 U.N. Peace Proprosal summary, "Toward Humanitarian Competition"
    (02-09)

  • Issue # 7
  • 1) Nur Yalman seminar and interview; Daisaku Ikeda on the search for human connection in a virtual age; 3) Chandra Muzaffar on religion and economics
    (05-09)

  • Issue # 8
  • 1) Announcing the Creating Waldens author event with Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson; 2) "Creativity and Global Flourishing," an original essay by John Berthrong; 3) Announcing the 6th Annual Ikeda Forum, "John Dewey, Daisaku Ikeda, and the Quest for a New Humanism"
    (09-09)

  • Issue # 9
  • 1) Report from the Sept. 24 Creating Waldens author event; 2) Final announcement for the 6th Annual Ikeda Forum; 3) New books from two friends of the Center, theologians Harvey Cox and Paul Knitter
    (11-09)

  • Issue # 10
  • 1) Report from the 6th Ikeda Forum; 2) Anita Patterson essay, "True Books in a True Spirit"; 3) March 6 event celebrating "Into Full Flower"
    (01-10)

  • Issue # 11
  • 1) Making Peace Cultures Happen; 2) the Democratic Spirit; 3) 2010 UN peace proposal
    (04-10)

  • Issue # 12
  • 1) Announcing the 2010 Ikeda Forum; 3) educating for democracy; 3) remembering Elise Boulding
    (10/10)

  • Issue # 13
  • 1) Report on the 2010 Ikeda Forum; 2) new Vincent Harding video series
    (12/10)

  • Issue # 14
  • 1) Cultivating the Greater Self; 2) Vincent Harding videos: "The work of humankind has just begun"; 3) 2011 Peace Proposal to the U.N.
    (03/11)

  • Issue # 15
  • 1) New Greater Self essays on education and public health; 2) Education leadership seminar; 3) Call for proposals
    (07/11)

  • Issue # 16
  • 1) Ikeda Forum announcement; 2) videos explore social healing; 3) Ikeda on "soft power"
    (09-11)

  • Issue # 17
  • 1) Cultivating the Greater Self; 2) Soft Power seminar; 3) Core Convictions
    (11/11)

  • Issue # 18
  • 1) Exploring Interdependence; 2) Education leadership resources; 3) 2012 Peace Proposal
    (03/12)

  • Issue # 19
  • 1) Lou Marinoff author event celebrating the publication of The Inner Philosopher; 2) Video interview with Dr. Marinoff on the power of philosophy
    (11/12)

  • Issue # 20
  • 1) Ninth Ikeda Forum, on interdependence; 2) Marinoff philosophy videos, continued; 3) 20th Anniversary!
    (12/12)

  • Issue # 21
  • 1) Garrison-Hickman dialogue; 2) Marinoff at Harvard; 3) Social media; 4) 2013 Peace Proposal
    (05/13)

  • Issue # 22
  • 1) New Harding-Ikeda dialogue (America Will Be!)
    (08/13)

  • Issue # 23
  • 1) 20th anniversary features; 2) Nel Noddings interview; 3) Ikeda Forum announcement
    (09/13)

  • Issue # 24
  • 1) 2013 Ikeda Forum feature story; 2) 20th anniversary coverage; 3) George Mason seminar; 4) Nel Noddings interview, Part 2
    (12/13)

  • Issue # 25
  • 1) Sarah Wider author event for The Art of True Relations; 2) New website resources; 3) 2014 Peace Proposal
    (03/14)

  • Issue # 26
  • 1) Announcement for Ikeda Forum livestream; 2) Videos on dignity with Charlie Clements and Andrea Bartoli; 3) web resources on dignity
    (09/14)

  • Issue # 27
  • 1) 2014 Ikeda Forum (on dignity) articles, photos, videos; 2) "Living As Learning: John Dewey in the 21st Century"
    (10/14)

  • Issue # 28
  • 1) Story about the talk on dignity with Harvard's Donna Hicks; 2) Living As Learning at Teachers College
    (02/15)

  • Issue # 29
  • 1) Dialogue with Ben Ferencz, the only living Nuremberg prosecutor; 2) conflict resolution seminar with Meenakshi Chhabra and Darren Kew
    (05/15)

  • Issue # 30
  • 1) New videos with Betty Reardon and Anita Patterson; 2) Updates from Dialogue Path Press, including an award for Living As Learning and an announcement for Our World To Make; 3) Announcing fall 2015 events
    (08/15)

  • Issue # 31
  • 1) Report from Our World To Make book launch with Ved Nanda; 2) Interview with historian Peter Stearns on peace and peace studies
    (10/15)

  • Issue # 32
  • 1) Report from the 2015 Ikeda Forum, "The Practice of Dignity"!
    (12/15)

  • Issue # 33
  • 2) New book: Knowing Our Worth; 2) Peace ed panel at USF; 3) Peace proposal to UN
    (03/16)

  • Issue # 34
  • 1) Education & global citizenship panel; 2) new mobile-responsive website; 3) Cox & Kazanjian interviews, Meyer podcast
    (07/16)

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