Nobel Peace Prize

The Founder of the Prizes

In the 1890's, Swedish, Alfred Nobel donated his large fortune to the Nobel Prizes

He dedicated the award to "the Person who shall have done the most or best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

An Example:

The united Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan were chosen

"...for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world..."

The First Peace Prize

Henry Dunant, founder of the red cross, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frederic Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time.

In addition to humanitarian efforts and peace movements, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, meditation of international conflicts, and arms control.

Number of Prizes
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 120 Laureates - 97 times to individuals and 23 times to organisations.

The Gender allocation
Of the 97 individuals awarded the Noble Peace Prize, 12 are women.

Organisations can win the award

two examples are the red cross, honoured 3 times, and Amnesty international.

More Information can be found here

Refugees

Imagine that your mother or father arrives home from work one day and tells you that the police are about to arrive to arrest the whole family, because of your family’s religious beliefs.  You are told to pack a small backpack and be ready in 2 minutes. A family friend drives you overland to Darwin where you climb aboard a yacht. Your parents hand over thousands of dollars in cash. Six weeks later the yacht leaves you on a Japanese beach.  Police arrive and take you to a detention centre which is prison and home to refugees like yourself from various parts of the world, all speaking different languages. Only a few other people speak English.  The guards, canteen staff, doctor etc. all speak Japanese.  Your parents tell you that they are applying for refugee status in Japan, which means you will be allowed to live in the country, go to school there and eventually get a job. 

1.      What would you pack in your backpack?

Water bottle, food, seeds, change of clothes

2.      What would you miss most if you had to leave your home, your school, Australia?

I would miss my lifestyle, my family and friends

3.      What would be some of the problems of living in a detention centre in a foreign country?

problems would inculde sanitiation, sleeping arragngements, rationing food and water and developing relationships with the people around you

4.      What would be the biggest challenges for you if you and your family were accepted as refugees?

some of the hardest challenges would incude getting past language barriers and getting a job and completing my education

5.      Why is this ‘imagine’ story a very unlikely one?
In Australia, we are very fortunate to be free of war and have no outstandign problems with other countries

United nations

'Declaration of human rights', 30 human rights that protect the dignity of humans.

The UN deals with global issues and was created after WW11, to stop a world war happening again.

in my own words:

• Everyone is entitled to the same rights, and are of equal importance.freedom form discrmintation (no. 2)
• no one shall be held slavery (no. 4)
• everyone has the right to be free of torture (no. 5)
• everyone has the right to be formally recognised as a person before the law (no. 6)
• Anyone of full age has the right to choose to marry and found a family (no. 16)
• everyone has the right to freedom and opinion of choice (no.19)
• everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living and health (no. 25)
• everyone has the right to social security (no. 22)
• everyone has the right to elementary education (no. 26) 
• everyone has the right to freely participate within the community (no. 27)

village space presentation

Suicide in Rural Australia

What is the issue about?
The issue was about rising number suicide deaths in rural and remote parts of Australia.

What is causing the issue?
the increasing stress of financial insecurity, and drought making people feel lonely and unable too access support systems because of where they live

Who is affected?
According to statistics men are more venerable to the effects of these hardships. However anyone living in remote areas may experience such effects

What can be done?
- improvements in access to mental support services
- financial planning
- increased awareness
- socialisation events within the community