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NIWANO PEACE FOUNDATION
Niwano Peace Foundation, Shamvilla, Catherina
5F1-16-9 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo 160-0022,
Japan
www.npf.or.jp
info@npf.or.jp
Category Dialogue
MISSION STATEMENT
The Niwano Peace Foundation was chartered to contribute to the realization of world peace and the enhancement of culture by
promoting research and other activities, based on religious spirit and serving the cause of peace, in such fields as thought, culture,
science, and education.
Founding year 1978.
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
Niwano Peace Prize: The Niwano Peace Foundation established the Niwano Peace Prize to honor and encourage individuals and
organizations that have contributed significantly to inter-religious cooperation, thereby furthering the cause of world peace, and to
make their achievements known as widely as possible. The Foundation hopes in this way both to enhance inter-religious
understanding and cooperation and to encourage the emergence of still more people devoted to working for world peace.
Activity Grant Program: Respecting the uniqueness of each of religions and embracing the spirit of tolerance, it aims to build a
world of peace and coexistence. The Foundation makes grants in order to provide active encouragement for research and other
activities undertaken in a religious spirit and conducted in such a way as to invite broad social participation.
South Asia Program: The main objective of the NPF South Asia Program is the alleviation of poverty. It is based on the spirit of the
Donate One Meal Campaign, a spirit of sharing the struggle for coexistence with one another. “Unity in Diversity”: The NPF South
Asia Program supports groups engaged in those movements and activities undertaken in a spirit of "unity in diversity." "Unity in
diversity" means that global citizens, especially grass-roots people in Asia, while being well aware of their own distinctive character
and backgrounds, understand that they have much in common, and cooperate on that basis. With an open-minded, non-dogmatic
religiosity and spirituality, the NPF South Asia Program encourages exchanges between CBOs and other civil-society organizations in
the region.
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REMARKS
Nikkoyo Niwano: founder of the buddhist lay organisation Rissho Kosei-Kai; he was one of the few non-Christian observers of the
Second Vatican Council. His son Nichiko Niwano is his successor as chairman of the movement.
Latest laureates of the Niwano Peace Prize:
2006: “Rabbis for Human Rights”, Israël
2005: Dr. Hans Küng