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Lingiari Foundation Chairman Wins 2008 Sydney Peace Prize
Mr Patrick Dodson, Chairman of the Lingiari Foundation, is the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize recipient. [more]
Aboriginal activist Patrick Dodson has a deserved reputation for finding bridges for people to walk across. In the language of his people – Yawru – his leadership emphasises the importance of liyaru ngarn: a meeting of the spirits or a finding of people’s sense of a common fate.
Mr Dodson will give the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture on November 5th in the Sydney Opera House. On November 6th he will receive the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize in the Great Hall of Sydney University. On November 7th he will be the guest at a festival of welcome and gratitude hosted by Cabramatta High School.
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The Sydney Peace Prize trophy is created by renowned Australian 'artist in glass', Mr Brian Hirst. |
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The Sydney Peace Prize
The Sydney Peace Prize is the only International Peace Prize awarded in Australia. This Prize has global significance in terms of the support and recognition given to leaders for peace.
The citation for the Sydney Peace Prize refers to significant contributions to 'peace with justice', which could include:
- treaties to achieve nuclear disarmament, to ban land mines, and to end religious and ethnic violence.
- initiatives to abolish the injustices of hunger and poverty, unemployment, homelessness and illiteracy, domestic violence and infant mortality.
- individual and community fulfilment through the creation of rewarding opportunities in employment and education.
Each year the prize is awarded to an organisation or individual
- who has made significant contributions to global peace including improvements in personal security and steps towards eradicating poverty, and other forms of structural violence
- whose role and responsibilities enable the recipient to use the prize to further the cause of peace with justice
- whose work illustrates the philosophy and principles of non-violence
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