Women’s Club Member Lecture: Insights into this year’s Sydney Peace Prize to the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

Kate Miranda, Director, NSW at Australian Red Cross will talk on the work of the Australian Red Cross, its 110 year anniversary celebration, the essential humanitarian work of the ARC, ICRC and IFRC and the Sydney Peace Prize.

In November, this year’s Peace Prize will be presented to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement), a humanitarian network of 17 million volunteers and staff, for saving lives and preventing the suffering of people affected by armed conflict, for the Movement’s commitment to International Humanitarian Law, with the Council specifically wishing to acknowledge the work of the Palestinian Red Crescent.

This year is particularly significant as it marks the 75^th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, to which the ICRC’s impartial, neutral and essential work is bound.

President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Kate Forbes, will be visiting Sydney in November to receive the $50,000 Sydney Peace Prize at the award ceremony at Sydney Town Hall on Monday, 18 November where she will give the 2024 Sydney Peace Prize lecture. Later in the week she will be the guest of honour at our Gala Dinner on Thursday, 21 November at the Sheraton on the Park.

Don’t miss this Member Lecture to discuss insights into this years Sydney Peace Prize.

The Sydney Peace Foundation’s book Conversations in Peace Volume 2 of Sydney Peace Prize Lectures from 2012-2022 will be on sale for $25.

Biographies

Kate Miranda is the Director NSW at Australian Red Cross, Non-Executive Director, Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University and UTS Business School. She specialises in corporate communications and organisational strategy and has more than 20 years’ experience in not-for-profit management, federal government advisory roles and media relations. Kate began her career as a journalist for the ABC.

Dr Jane Fulton, our Philanthropy Director at the Sydney Peace Foundation, spearheads our fundraising efforts. Following the completion of her PhD on environmental conflict at Sydney University, she worked with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Foundation’s birthplace, before joining the UNDP in New York. She is dedicated to fostering resilient and inclusive communities, with a keen focus on the Sustainable Development Goals.