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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 ...
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
Human peace sign - symbolically represents an holistic approach to peacebuilding.. Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict.
In 2019, Reconciliation Australia was the recipient of the UN Day Honour award, which recognises "individuals or organisations in Australia that have made a significant contribution to the aims and objectives of the UN, for example in promoting peace, respect for human rights, equal opportunities, social justice and environmental sustainability".
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday the country's support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations member was part of building momentum to secure peace in the ...
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 Culture of Peace News Network, begun at UNESCO as part of the International Year for the Culture of Peace, has been continued as a source of news of events that promote the goals of the Culture of Peace. It is updated more or less daily with articles from around the world promoting at least one of the eight program areas of the Culture of ...
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