PBI Australia will mark the 30th anniversary of PBI’s work protecting human rights defenders (1981-2011) with a celebratory gathering of prominent Australian human rights defenders, NGO leaders, former team volunteers and long term PBI friends and activists.
We're capping off 2011 with a celebration of three decades of nonviolent intervention into war and repression - wine, food and inspirational stories to celebrate such an important organisation, the volunteers and the people we accompany.
Speakers:
Tom Weber, Author of Gandhi's peace army: the Shanti Sena and unarmed peacekeeping
Denise Cauchi, Director, Humanitarian Crisis Hub
Ellen Roberts, PBI Australia Coordinator, reporting on PBI's recent General Assembly in Geneva
Plus special guests
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 5.30pm till late
Venue: Top floor - Kindness House - 288 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
RSVP: to info@pbi-australia.org by Monday 5th Dec
Please RSVP for this important event.
Have a look at some of PBI's amazing history here; http://www.peacebrigades.org/about-pbi/pbi-history/
‘We are forming an organisation with the capacity to mobilise and provide trained volunteers in areas of high tension, to avert violent outbreaks. Peace brigades, fashioned to respond to specific needs and appeals, will undertake nonpartisan missions, which may include peacemaking initiatives, peacekeeping under a discipline of nonviolence, and humanitarian service. …We are building on a rich and extensive heritage of nonviolent action. We are convinced that this commitment of mind, heart, and dedicated will can make a significant difference in human affairs’
From the minutes of the founding meeting - Grindstone Island Canada, September 4th 1981