2nd International Symposium on Global Citizenship Education

This symposium coincides with important commemorations that inspire reflection and renewed action. The year 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Daisaku Ikeda’s notable speech titled, Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship, delivered in 1996 at Teachers College, Columbia University, in which he articulated a vision of education that would foster a deep sense of shared humanity, rooted in the following three essential elements:

• The wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life.
• The courage not to fear or deny difference but to respect and strive to understand people of different cultures and to grow from encounters with them.
• The compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one’s immediate surroundings and extends to those suffering in distant places.

（1996/2021, pp.6-7）

Theme: Democracy, Education, and Value Creation
Dates: 22 – 23 November 2026
Venue: Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

We hereby invite proposals for presentations in the parallel sessions. For more information, please refer to the submission guidelines on the website.