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Building the Foundations of Peace - The ‘Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace’ Exhibition was brought to South Africa by SGI-SA in 2004.

The ‘Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace’ Exhibition highlights the commitment to human rights and world peace by men and women of different cultures, personalities, and ethnic backgrounds - each advocating the use of non-violence, dignity for all and a universal respect for life. The purpose of this exhibition is to show ordinary South Africans how these individuals, each of whom had humble origins, was able to overcome great obstacles to effect peaceful change.

In the words of Dean Lawrence Edward Carter Sr. of the Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel at Morehouse College, who conceptualised the exhibition:
… It is within the mundane realm of daily living that Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Daisaku Ikeda have sought to forge an existence filled with dignity, freedom and happiness for all people.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel at Morehouse College and has toured, in adapted versions, through many countries, including Germany, Canada, the USA, France, Italy, Jordan, India and New Zealand. It has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Around 3 000 people attended the exhibition at venues in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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