The
Sydney Peace Prize is awarded each year by the Sydney Peace Foundation, a
not-for-profit organization created in 1998 at
Australia's Sydney University. The Foundation's mission is to promote peace with
justice -- "Peace with justice is a way of thinking and acting which promotes
non-violent solutions to every day problems and provides the foundation of a civil
society." The Sydney Peace Prize is awarded "to an organization or an
individual whose life and work has demonstrated significant contributions to:
the achievement of peace with justice locally, nationally or internationally;
the promotion and attainment of human rights; the philosophy, language and practice
of non violence .
www.sydneypeacefoundation.org.au
(BetterWorld
Heroes is not associated with The Sydney Peace Foundation - BetterWorld Hero portraits
are provided for illustration purposes only - no endorsement is implied)
