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Australian soldiers in a M-113 armoured personnel carrier during a peacekeeping deployment to East Timor in 2002. Australian involvement in international peacekeeping began in 1947 when a small contingent, consisting of just four officers—two Army, one Navy and one Air Force—were deployed to the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) in September of that year, being deployed as military ...
The Peace Organisation of Australia was a non-profit and non-religious organisation based in Melbourne, Australia which was active from 2005 to 2009. Its stated objective was the promotion of world peace through education.
The United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) is the official non-profit, non-government, membership-based, organisation in Australia working on behalf of the United Nations core body to promote its overall aims and ideals, and equally seeking to build support for the UN's programs, activities, and agencies. The UNAA official mission is ...
Australia voted on Friday with the overwhelming majority of the U.N. General Assembly in backing the resolution that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state.
Australia: Sydney Peace Prize: University of Sydney: Promotes peace with justice and the practice of nonviolence Australia: UNAA Media Peace Awards: United Nations Association of Australia: Awarded 1979–2018 on UN Day, to recognise Australian journalists and media organisations for promotion of human rights and issues
The Sydney Peace Prize is awarded by the Sydney Peace Foundation, [1] a non profit organisation associated with the University of Sydney. The prize promotes peace with justice and the practice of nonviolence. It aims to encourage public interest and discussion about issues of peace, social justice, human rights, and non-violent conflict ...
Volume II, entitled Australia and the 'New World Order': From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement, 1988–1991, was the first work in the series to be published and was released in February 2011. [4] The book was officially launched by Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 11 April.
Apart from the specific question of war, other ways in which Friends have testified to peace have included vegetarianism and a commitment to restorative justice. The Religious Society of Friends was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Friends for Friends' work to relieve suffering and feed many millions of ...