"Former Czech President Vaclav Havel was exceptional for a simple reason: he was a decent, principled man". Prague, Czech Republic - Long before Czechoslovakia's communist regime collapsed in 1989, Václav Havel was one of the most remarkable figures in Czech history
This is an open letter to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. It calls on the Australian government to take steps to ensure Julian Assange's human rights are protected. It will be delivered on 19 December 2011, but
AS MOST Australians contemplate a traditional Christmas of over-indulgence and recuperation, we should spare a thought for one of our less fortunate compatriots. He lives in exile under house arrest, awaiting one last hopeful court appeal. He faces a perilous
PRESS RELEASE 13th November, Sydney Australia need not be a ‘Frightened Country’: Security through dialogue with China not by threat of US force Sydney Peace Foundation, responsible for Australia’s only international award for peace, insists that the best way to enhance Australia’s security in
On Thursday 3rd November, Australia's Father of Reconciliation and 2008 Recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize, Patrick Dodson, presented Prof Noam Chomsky with the Sydney Peace Prize at a Gala Dinner in the beautiful surrounds of the MacLaurin Hall, the
The 2011 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture was delivered to a sold-out crowd at Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday 2nd November, by the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize Recipient, Prof Noam Chomsky. Prof Noam Chomsky's City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture
Months before Chomsky is due in Australia as guest of the Sydney Peace Foundation, the seats for his public lecture in the Sydney Town Hall had already sold out. Despite his near-invisibility in the US and Australian media, Chomsky is in
By Paul Duffill Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Sydney Opponents of UN recognition of Palestine want the parties to sit down and talk it out. Will this be effective? Paul Duffill on the conditions necessary for real negotiation
American hypocrisy is enormous: in alliance with Israel they have vetoed so many attempts to identify the real obstacles to peace, such as America enabling Israel to maintain massive armed forces, such as the continued building of settlements in defiance
Tuesday 13 September 2011 by: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Interview Ten years ago, at a time when lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to authorize endless war, Noam Chomsky’s was the leading voice to call for the United
By Dr Ken Macnab Dr Ken Macnab is an historian and President of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney. John Stuart Mill argued in On Liberty (1859) that it was 'imperative that human beings should
By Jeff Sparrow. Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland literary journal and the author of Killing: Misadventures In Violence. If there was nothing wrong about how David Hicks was treated, why won't they let him talk about it? Whenever a government
Friday 5 August 2011 by: Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is
By Professor Stuart Rees, Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation Current political debate and radio talkback exchanges - about asylum seekers, about the carbon tax or the influence of the Greens - is characterised by abuse. Similar habits have been adopted
As the US obsesses over how to avoid a default on its loans, deep divisions within the ethos of the American society are becoming apparent. There are those who are intent on maintaining military spending at a record high and
By Professor Stuart Rees, Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation On August 2nd in the theatrette of the NSW parliament, the Australian support group Sydney Solidarity for Bradley Manning will take a major step in their campaign for justice for this
Tickets for the 2011 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture will go on sale AUGUST 1, through TICKETEK. The lecture will be held Wednesday 2 November in the Sydney Town Hall. Tickets for the Sydney Peace Prize Gala Dinner are now on
How sad that a country concerned with understanding and freedom should be sending commandos to stop the current Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Not only are the boats being hindered from leaving Greek ports, but the skipper of the American boat Audacity of
Watch the interview with Johan Galtung and US Congressman Dennis Kucinich as they discuss the proposal for a Department for Peace. Watch PART II here Watch PART II here To he who has a hammer, all problems looks like a nail
Stuart Rees, Director of The Sydney Peace Foundation, writes for the ABC's The Drum Unleashed. It is disappointing that Mr. Lapkin, billed as a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, churns out articles in The Drum and the Daily
Dr Vandana Shiva was the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize Recipient. She an international voice for sustainable development and social justice. She's a physicist, scholar, social activist, and feminist. She is director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource
SPEECH AT 2011 SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE SYDNEY TOWN HALL SYDNEY Wednesday, 1 June 2011 HER EXCELLENCY PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR AC CVO,ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH PROFESSOR STUART REES, Director, Sydney Peace Prize Foundation MS BETH JACKSON, Foundation Chair MR JOE SKRZYNSKI, Chair, SBS Television PROFESSOR
A far better explanation for the award to Professor Chomsky is given by Stephen Matchett, "Ideologue on a peace pedestal". June 03, 2011 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/ideologue-on-a-peace-pedestal/story-e6frg6z6-1226068205671
Matthew Miller From: The Australian June 03, 2011 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/chomsky-peace-award-blasted/story-fn59niix-1226068256064 The Sydney Peace Foundation was established fourteen years ago, not eight. Windschuttle as usual gets his facts wrong. a) Chomsky is a consistent supporter of non-violence b) Chomsky compared the publicity surrounding Pol Pot with silence
'In a time of violence and abuses of human rights, a brilliant, inspiring choice' On Wednesday June 1, at the Sydney Town Hall, the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, announced distinguished American linguist, social scientist and