SGI Delegation Participates in Third Meeting of States Parties to TPNW

From March 3 to 7, an SGI (Soka Gakkai International) delegation led by Tomohiko Aishima, executive director for Peace and Global Issues of the SGI, participated in the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the UN Headquarters in New York.   

On March 3, the SGI co-organized a side event alongside the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN and the Center for International Security and Policy (CISP). The event featured the screening of the full 40-minute version of the documentary “I Want To Live On: The Untold Stories of the Polygon.” Created by CISP with support from the SGI, the film features survivor testimonies from Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

On March 6, the SGI co-organized another side event titled “Youth Voices for a Sustainable, Nuclear Weapons-Free Future” to present the provisional results of the Youth Peace Awareness Survey, which was conducted by the SGI and other organizations to gauge youth perspectives on nuclear abolition in Australia, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Marshall Islands and the US. Daiki Nakazawa and Yuki Nihei, university students of the SGI delegation, joined panel discussions with other youth representatives.    

On March 4, youth members of the SGI delegation attended the Youth MSP 2025, organized by Youth for TPNW. Miyuki Horiguchi, program coordinator for disarmament of the SGI, shared the SGI’s work for nuclear abolition during a panel discussion.

On March 5, an interfaith statement, endorsed by 107 organizations including the SGI, was delivered. The SGI also submitted a working paper on disarmament education in collaboration with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University. On March 6, Mohamed Ambrosini of the SGI Office for UN Affairs delivered the SGI’s statement, which was drafted based on the working paper.