2014 Sydney Peace Prizeawarded to: 
Australian barrister, human rights activist and author
Wednesday 5 November, Sydney Town Hall
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2014 Julian Burnside AO QC
2013 Dr Cynthia Maung
2012 Senator Sekai Holland
2011 Professor Noam Chomsky
2010 Dr Vandana Shiva
2009 John Pilger
2008 Patrick Dodson
2007 Hans Blix
2006 Irene Khan
2005 Olara Otunnu
2004 Arundhati Roy
2003 Dr Hanan Ashrawi
2002 Mary Robinson
2001 Sir William Deane AC KBE
2000 Xanana Gusmão
1999 Archbishop Desmond Tutu
1998 Professor Muhammed Yunus
Peace with justice is a way of thinking and acting which promotes nonviolent solutions to everyday problems and thereby contributes to a civil society
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The awarding of a prize for peace is a celebration of inspiring people and their achievements. The 2014 Sydney Peace Prize will be awarded to Julian Burnside AO QC on 5 November 2014 at Sydney Town Hall. Tickets for the 2014 Sydney Peace Prize are now on sale!
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Dr Ela Gandhi (Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi) will be in Sydney 30th and 31st January 2015 with courtesy of University of New South Wales who have invited and hosted her to deliver their annual Gandhi Oration on 30 January 2015. International Centre of Nonviolence Australia (ICON) in partnerships has organised the following two events on […]
Dr Vandana Shiva, who received the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize, will be speaking in Sydney on the evening of Friday 20 February 2015. Planet on Plate: Eating and Farming for Our Future INTRODUCTION BY JOEL SALATIN WHEN: Friday, 20 February 2015, 6 pm for 7 pm start. 6-7 pm: networking, 7 pm: Introduction by Joel Salatin and […]
by Dr. Vandana Shiva, recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize We live in times whose signature is violence – from the killing of 134 innocent children in Peshawar to the massacres of 2000 by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the 17 in Paris just in the last month. We must condemn this violence. But […]
In the wake of the murders of staff from the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, it’s imperative to re-assert the indispensable function of a humour which contributes so much to civility in societies. Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist Sally Wilcox made the same point when she wrote, ‘I believe satire is where sanity is found.’ Over […]
In response to the murder of staff and a defending Muslim policeman in the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 8th January, a poem by Stuart Rees: Nous Sommes Charlie We are seeing the killers whose balaclava eyes stared like bad breath shared with collaborators, each masturbating anger sufficient only to hear the notes of their Kalashnikovs which they […]
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