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Toda.eNewsletter #4



Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Toda.eNewsletter #4
20 January 2009


 

Dear Friends of the Toda Institute and Members of TIAC,

Today the sole military superpower left on earth has a new leader, and we all wish him courage, wisdom and compassion in his immense task, and look forward to seeing change we can believe in. At the beginning of this year the world has already witnessed events of outrageous barbarity, and we can only hope that it was a false start, and that the rest of the year will bring better developments for the 6.5 billion of us.

On behalf of the Toda Institute, I would like to wish you a productive and fulfilling year 2009, full of wonderful accomplishments for peace and justice.
 
This year the Toda Institute will see the publication of the book The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, edited by David Krieger, by Transaction Publishers. It is the outcome of the 2007 Toda Institute international conference on Nuclear Abolition held in San Francisco in commemoration of Josei Toda’s declaration against nuclear weapons in Yokohama on 7 September 1957.
 
We would like to ask for your help in ensuring that this volume receives the distribution and exposure it deserves. We have earmarked a certain number of copies for TIAC members, and therefore if you would like a copy for yourself, or for someone else, or for an institution, please send us the full name, complete address and contact numbers of the person you would like us to send it to.
 
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is up for review in 2010, and we want to make sure that this outstanding book reaches as many people as possible in order to contribute to the success of the NPT Review Conference during the whole year leading up to this crucial event.
 
Another book slated for publication is Facing Climate Change with a Renewed Environmental Ethic, the result of our 2008 Honolulu conference on the same topic.
We are busy preparing several events and conferences and will let you know when we have concrete news about these, but in the meantime please take a look at this special page on our forum: we are collecting websites and videos that illustrate our motto, “Dialogue of Civilization for Global Citizenship.” Feel free to add some of your own.
 
Enjoy!   http://toda.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=40
 
With best regards on behalf of the Toda.eNewsletter team,
 
Olivier Urbain, Director
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
 
PS: Many thanks for your support, Nuclear Abolition made it in the top 35 recommended changes for the new administration on change.org. The following page first introduces the first top 10 ideas, but then lists the next 25, and there you can find the proposal concerning nuclear abolition. Congratulations to David Krieger of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and all those concerned about nuclear disarmament.  Many thanks for your support.
 
Here is the page: http://www.change.org/ideas