Announcements

“Are We Meeting Our Responsibility to Children?” I welcome the decision of the InterAction Council to hold this meeting specifically on the Theme, ‘Our Responsibility to Children.’ It is my belief that the current meeting in Tokyo as well as the meeting to be held in Salzburg next July will give a strong message and […]

Social Empowerment Division Sarvodaya Social Empowerment division weaves an integrated approach to personal, family, village and regional development that extents far beyond mere economics. It is an infrastructure through, which flows an energy that cannot be described in economic or bureaucratic terms alone. Not government. Nor merely technical assistance, professionalism and the accumulation of business […]

The Eastern vision of our political future is not a dictatorship of the intellectual, a bourgeois oligarchy, or a proletariat autocracy, jealous of its class privileges and superimposed upon passive and inarticulate millions, but of a peasant democracy rising layer after layer from the old and essential local and functional groupings, growing from district to […]

I am with you this evening at the request of Honourable Judge Weeramanthri who wanted me to make a short speech on the subject of Buddhism and Humanitarian Law. I confess that I am not a scholar in either Buddhism or International Humanitarian Law. In spite of that there was no way I could say […]

I wish to begin my remarks by thanking the Niwano Peace Foundation for convening this Niwano Peace Forum. The late President Nikkyo Niwano’s name has already gone into history as the pioneer and the foremost promoter of inter-religious co-operation for peace in the twentieth century. We are happy that his vision and mission are carried […]

A Socio-Anthropological and Technology Study on the “Last Mile” Sarvodaya has now become a centre for various development activities in Sri Lanka, including ICT-based programs for the poor. Since 1997, seven Telecenters have been established by Sarvodaya. Some of the Telecenters are quite modest, but all became functional as ICT nodes for community development. This […]