Developing Creativity
January 2012
Banner photo: Aboriginal artist Charles Inkamala at work, Alice Springs, Australia [© Marianna Massey/Corbis]
Antinuclear Exhibition in Berlin
At the Urania venue [SGI-OPI]
The exhibition "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace," which highlights the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and calls for a move from arms-based security to human security, was shown at Berlin's Urania conference venue from October 7 to 16.
Co-organizers of this first showing in Germany were the Global Cooperation Council (GCC), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Germany (IPPNW-Germany) and the SGI.
Speakers at the opening ceremony on October 7 included SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda and Prof. Dr. Hideto Sotobayashi, a survivor of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and former professor at the Max-Planck Institute. Ms. Xanthe Hall of IPPNW-Germany also spoke, along with Mr. Ramesh Jaura, Chair of the Global Cooperation Council.
In addition, two public lectures were held at Urania's Kleist Hall in association with the exhibition. On October 8, Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, founder of the Wuppertal Institute, spoke on the theme "Peacemaking: A European-Asian Alliance." He stressed that at a time when national interest is often an obstacle to concerted efforts to solve environmental problems, Europe and Asia should unite to play a new role in leading the world closer to global cooperation.
On October 14, Professor Horst-Eberhard Richter of IPPNW-Germany spoke on the nuclear threat and human nature, stating that each individual has the responsibility to take action toward creating peace.
Along with the exhibition, a film of first-person testimonies by women who were victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was continuously shown.
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