SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's peace proposal for 2020

Each year for the last 38 years, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda has published a peace proposal. This year's proposal (summary, full text) addresses the twin threats posed by the climate crisis and nuclear weapons and starts by outlining three principles for addressing them:

1. Having a sense of crisis is not enough. We must have a vision of what a peaceful world looks like. (In this regard Ikeda cites the Lotus Sutra's teaching that this saha world is the land of eternally tranquil light to argue that if we merely see the world as a place of suffering, we won't be able to take the action that is needed.)
2. No one should be left behind.
3. The voices of young people should be given a leading role in addressing these crises.

He then goes on to make more concrete proposals, including ways to build on the progress towards disarmament made through the 2019 TPNW (Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons); to make the increased risk of nuclear war posed by the combination of AI and cyber warfare a reason to renew negotiations aimed at implementing the terms of the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) which commits the existing declared nuclear-weapon states to nuclear disarmament; to encourage pressure from municipal governments for action on the climate crisis and nuclear disarmament, even when national governments are reluctant to take the necessary measures; and to take efforts towards disaster resilience beyond merely addressing questions of infrastructure and to consider particularly the needs of vulnerable groups, such as the disabled, and especially to ensure that natural and societal disasters do not prevent children getting an education.