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Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
What is the Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace?
The forum brings together concerned parties to share anew the importance of achieving global peace, a prerequisite for conducting business activities, through multifaceted discussions on ways to connect business and peace building. The forum is also designed to provide the business community with the opportunity to reconsider its role in attaining a nuclear-free peaceful world and explore ways to make concrete contributions to achieving this goal.
The conference was first launched in 2013 as the “World Business Conference for World Peace” and from 2020 up to now as the “Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace.”
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Result of the 2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
The "2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace" was held over two days, May 30 and May 31, 2025, in a hybrid format (In-person and Online).
Since 2013, Hiroshima Prefecture has hosted eight forums, inviting leaders from Japan and abroad, including business executives, to discuss peacebuilding through business and share these discussions globally.
In its ninth iteration, this forum focused on:
- The forum addressed the instability of the current global landscape through multifaceted discussions on the future of capitalism, engagement with emerging technologies such as generative AI, and the formation of a new world order in the context of geopolitical shifts.
- For the first time, an Executive Committee (EC) has been formed, chaired by Mr. Takeshi Niinami, the Chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), and joined by influential leaders from Japan and around the world in order to enhance and strengthen our planning and communication.
- Partner Sessions were held in collaboration with world-renowned business schools and leading global strategy consulting firms.
Executive Committee Members
Date:
Friday, May 30th to Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Venue:
Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (2nd Floor, "Setouchi")
Address: 23-1 Motoujina-machi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8543 Japan
(Simultaneous online streaming available)
Topic:
"The Role of Business Leaders in a Divided World: The Future of Peace, Sustainability, and Technology"
Organizers:
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace, Nikkei Inc.
Media Partner:
Financial Times
Program
1) May 30, Friday
■Adoption of Hiroshima Declaration
Governor Yuzaki and the Executive Committee (EC) members have adopted the “2025 Hiroshima Declaration” as a guideline to accelerate the contribution of the business community to peace. This declaration aims to advance a global shift from “ESG” (Environmental, Social, and Governance) which refers to investment activities and management and business activities that take into consideration environmental, social, and governance factors, to “ESGP” (Environmental, Social, Governance, and Peace) .
Hiroshima Prefecture and Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) will actively seek support from the business community under the banner of ESGP and work to promote concrete actions by business sectors to contribute to peace.
■Keynote Speech
Escalating World Division and the Era of Ethical Capitalism
Speaker: Markus GABRIEL, Philosopher/ Professor, the University of Bonn
■Plenary Session 1
Future of Capitalism, the World Economy, Business, and World Peace
■Plenary Session 2
Generative AI and Humanity's Future
■Plenary Session 3
Rise of Global South and the Transformation of the World Order
■Plenary Session 4
Reconstruction from 80 years since the end of the war
From Japan to the world
2) May 31, Saturday
■Partner's session 【Session presented by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management】
Business as a Force for Peace: ESG, Sustainability, and Economic Resilience in a Changing World
■Partner's session
Architecture for Peace -Community Contribution and Disaster Relief Through Architecture
■Partner's session 【Session presented by McKinsey & Company】
The New CEO Imperative: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Global Order
■Plenary Session 5
Hiroshima Spirit ～Hiroshima's reconstruction and how to create the future～
■Partner's session 【Session presented by IMD】
Governance for Peace: Lessons from the Public and Private Sectors
■Partner's session 【Session presented by the Tokyo Community with Hiroshima for Global Peace】
Beyond Sustainability -The Potential of New Capital to Integrate Business and Peace-
■Plenary Session 6
Making the Abolition of Nuclear Weapon as Global Agenda for Sustainable Future
■Closing
Please check the dedicated website for speakers and other details.
Result of the forum
Please view the video archive here. (YouTube)
Previous Forums
2023 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
◆Date： April 20, 2023 (Thursday)
◆Organizer： Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace（HOPe）
◆Venue： Hilton Hiroshima（It was also held online.）
◆Theme： International society/economy in the wake of Ukraine invasion and contribution of business to peace
◆Program：
Opening
Mr. Takeshi (Tak) NIINAMI, Chief Executive Officer, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, and
Mr. Hidehiko YUZAKI, Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture
Keynote Speech
◆Theme: 21st-century challenges posed by the war in Ukraine
◆Speaker: Mr. Serhii PLOKHY, Professor of History, Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Session 1
The importance of information for peace and the role of information companies
Session 2
How to tackle the weaponization of economics (energy, food, etc.)
Closing
Back Issue
- 2022 Report (PDFファイル)(421KB)
- 2021 Report (PDFファイル)(1.59MB)
- 2020 Report (PDFファイル)(630KB)
- 2019 Report (PDFファイル)(4.1MB)
Introduction Video of the 2016 World Business Conference for World Peace
Tokyo Session
The Tokyo Session of the Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace has been organized in Tokyo by the Hiroshima for Global Peace + Tokyo Community.
For more information, please see here. (only in Japanese)
2022 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace Tokyo Session
