On July 29, 2009, SGM Selangor organised a forum to present key points from SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2009 peace proposal entitled, "Towards Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History." The presenters were representatives from SGM Selangor’s Student Division.

English session

In this year’s peace proposal, President Ikeda analysed the global economic crisis, and questions humanity’s abstract love of money, calling for a focus on the real needs of real people and stressing the need to strengthen social safety nets. To resolve the crisis of capitalism, he advocates a paradigm shift to "humanitarian competition," a concept first proposed by Soka Gakkai founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi in 1903, in which nations and individuals compete to contribute the most to global society. To make the current crisis a catalyst for change, he calls for shared action to tackle global environmental problems, shared responsibility and international cooperation over global public goods, and shared efforts for peace through dialogue.

The forum, conducted in separate sessions of English and Chinese, was attended by around 1,000 members and guests.

Chinese session