Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age [Hardcover]

David Krieger (Author), Daisaku Ikeda (Author), Richard L. Gage (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2002

This moving dialogue between an American and a Japanese peace activist makes the compelling argument that ordinary people can and must guide their leaders to a safer and saner future free from a nuclear menace. This balance of Western and Eastern perspectives reveals how the development of true peace can grow only when narrow national loyalties are surpassed by a shared global vision. Inspiring examples of individuals working for an end to the nuclear threat showcase the role everyday people can play in the quest for peace. Particular encouragement is given to young people to build on their natural idealism to shape the world they will inherit.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese

About the Author

David Krieger is the founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the author of Nuclear Weapons and the World Court and Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. Daisaku Ikeda is the president of Soka Gakkai International and the author of The Way of Youth, For the Sake of Peace, and A Lifelong Quest for Peace. He received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Middleway Press (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967469767
• ISBN-13: 978-0967469768
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,225,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help eliminate the threat of nuclear war, November 13, 2002

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This review is from: Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)

Choose Hope: Your Role In Waging Peace In The Nuclear Age by David Krieger (President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) and Daisaku Ikeda (President of the Soka Gakkai International and recipient of the 1983 United Nations Peace Award), is an uplifting, inspiring, and practical inquiry into what ordinary people can do to help eliminate the threat of nuclear war. Individual chapters address the critical importance of nongovernmental organizations, the future of the United Nations, the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and much, much more. Choose Hope is a highly recommended reading for anyone concerned with the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology and the resultant, globally engaging threat of nuclear warfare in these troubled times.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book should be retitled "Choose Peace!", December 20, 2003

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Raheim Baltazar (West Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)

Yeah, choose Peace. This is the heart of Nichiren Buddhism----which is what SGI President Daisaku Ikeda practices. This book, Choose Hope, is a fantastic analysis on humanism and democracy. What's more is how we as human beings should be thinking of ways how to prevent war, not to extend it or prepare when it happens. As strongly emphasized by this book, preventing war/conflict is the absolute purpose of humanity.

1st Soka Gakkai President Makiguchi once taught during World War 2 that our objective must to prolong peace and to think of means to prevent it... not to find means to harm others and harm our nation---which in turn harms our world.

Purcahse this book and learn of the compiled humanistic values expounded by Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Daisaku Ikeda. It's worth every cent of your penny.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books you can read, December 17, 2010

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This review is from: Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)

First I am SGI and I enjoy reading Ikeada dialouges, they are insightful and full of the wisdom of living with compassion. I am also a strong advocate of eliminating nuclear weapons, with the hope that some day we will look back on nuclear weapons like we look at slavery and say "what were we thinking" . The messages in this book resonate strongly in me and I think anyone would find this book informative and uplifting.