Buddhism as a living practicable philosophy provides valuable techniques that people from all religious backgrounds can employ. Adoption and application of both its principles, and its profound insights into the interdependence of phenomena, provide a system for facilitating both inner transformation and outer socio-economic and environmental change.

At a time when the world is in a state of imbalance, with increasing levels of violence, poverty, suffering and environmental devastation, a radical paradigm shift is required. Buddhism has a very important role to play in this, and in the field of activism generally.