Global Action in Australia
supports
Global Action to Prevent War
The Sydney Peace Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which was created eight years ago within the University of Sydney . The Foundation aims to raise the agenda of peace with justice in the Australian community. Peace with justice is a way of thinking and acting which promotes non-violent solutions to every day problems and provides the foundation of a civil society. Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees is the Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, and is also a member of the International Steering Committee of Global Action to Prevent War.
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Children release doves in honour of Olara Otunnu, Sydney Peace Prize Recipient 2005.
Photo courtesy of the Sydney Peace Foundation
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The Sydney Peace Foundation:
- selects and awards the Sydney Peace Prize;
- develops corporate sector and community understanding of the value of peace with justice in diverse contexts and countries;
- sponsors peace initiatives, particularly the work of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney ;
- teaches peace and conflict studies and creates jobs for young people in areas of peace research, conflict resolution and the promotion of human rights;
- funds scholarships and internships in peace, human rights and conflict resolution.
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Sydney Peace Prize Recipients:
2005 Olara Otunnu , United Nations Under-Secretary General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict.
2004 Arundhati Roy, author and human rights campaigner.
2003 Dr Hanan Ashrawi, Founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH).
2002 Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2001 Sir William Deane AC KBE, former Governor General of Australia .
2000 Xanana Gusmão, East Timorese leader, currently (2004) President of East Timor.
1999 Archbishop Desmond Tutu. For his work as Chairman of South Africa 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
1998 Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. |
Olara Otunnu talks to a guest at the Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony, 10 November 2005.
Photo courtesy of the Sydney Peace Foundation
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For more information, please view the Sydney Peace Foundation website
at:
www.sydneypeacefoundation.org.au
~Information and photographs provided by Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard of Sydney Peace Foundation.
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