Hiroo Saionji
Co-founder and President of the Goi Peace Foundation, President of May Peace Prevail On Earth International
Speaker Bio
Hiroo Saionji is the great-grandson of Prince Kinmochi Saionji, who was twice Prime Minister of Japan during the Meiji Period.
Hiroo Saionji received the Social Education Distinguished Service Award from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
He is the President of the Goi Peace Foundation which maintains a Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and official relations with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
Hiroo Saionji is the President of May Peace Prevail On Earth International and the Honorary Advisor to Ritsumeikan Saionji Juku (School for global leadership), is an Ambassador to the World Wisdom Council and active in its activities. He was a principal founder of The New Civilization initiative with thirteen partner organizations, including Kosmos Journal, in November 2005.
In 2007, he was awarded the Cultural Prize of the Dr. Lin Tsung-I Foundation of Taiwan, the Philosopher Saint Shree Dnyaneshwara World Peace Prize of India in 2008 and the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2019.
Speech
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Hiroo Saionji, I am the president of The Goi Peace Foundation. It is a great honor for me to be invited to this international conference and have the opportunity to speak here.
The Goi Peace Foundation is engaged in a variety of activities to promote peace on Earth. One of our basic principles is the "Declaration for All Life on Earth”. We introduce our vision of peace. There are four principles in the Declaration.
The first one is Reverence for Life, the second one is Respect for All Differences, the third one is Grateful Coexistence with Nature, and the fourth one is Harmony between the spiritual and the material. It seems to me that the direction of these basic principles coincides with the Eight foundations on which the Creative Society is based. Well, I am glad about it.
We believe in the concept of critical mass theory which states that changing the thinking direction of one, two, five percent of the population will result in a trend that will change the mindset of the majority of people. Critical mass theory is a scientific theory. We believe that if we can change the consciousness of a few percent of the population, whether it's 100 or 200 million out of 7 billion people, there will be a big shift in everyone’s thinking.
We would like to spread this idea to those who support the Fuji Declaration. We are looking forward to collaborating toward a peaceful world. I sincerely wish this conference success. Thank you very much.