Welcome to The Peace Foundation

The Peace Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation actively involved in creating a more peaceful society. The Foundation promotes peaceful relationships among people of all ages, at all levels, through education, research and action.

AUCKLAND CITY DECLARED 'A PEACE CITY'

We are thrilled to announce the Auckland Council Regional Development Committee, led by Mayor for Peace Len Brown have declared Auckland as a 'City for Peace'.

This means they have made a comittment to a world free of nuclear weapons and Peace based on justice and human rights. 

There are now a number of Peace projects that can be implemented in 2012.

Jim Chapple honoured with the Lifetime Peacemaker Award 

    Jim Chapple was honoured with the Lifetime Peacemaker Award in recognition of a lifetime dedicated to creating a better society, and for his outstanding contribution to peace and disarmament in New Zealand and the world.

    Jim initiated the Mobile Peace Van, over 30 years ago, which travelled to many schools around New Zealand introducing them to the dangers of nuclear weapons. This was an early and outstanding legacy to peace and disarmament.

    His efforts as co-founder of Peace Movement Aotearoa was instrumental in building the national movement to make New Zealand nuclear free.

    His contribution in producing both the Secondary School version of Learning Peaceful Relationships and the Lange government's Peace Studies Guidelines made real impacts on many students.

     The award was presented by Dale Hunter, council member and Alyn Ware, international representative of The Peace Foundation to Jim on 20 December in Taupo. 

Read the latest issue of our Cool Schools Newsletter - MediationWorks. It provides indepth coverage of the vibrant happenings of the past six months - whew, it's been busy! Sit back, relax and enjoy our offerings. AND.  We LOVE feedback so send us yours. E: coolschools@peacefoundation.org.nz . Click here  for your copy. 

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 We are extremely proud to announce that His Excellency Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mataparae, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand and Her Excellency Lady Janine Mateparae have graciously accepted our invitation to become Vice Regal Patrons of the Peace foundation.

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 The Peace City Deputation was made to the Auckland Regional Development and Operations Committee on 16^th June 2011. Their Resolution required that the proposal be put to the 21 Local Boards. The Auckland Peace City Committee was able to make presentations to the Local Boards at their August meetings. There were 17 who voted in favour of supporting the Auckland Peace City Declaration. The matter will now be returned to the Development Committee in Oct/Nov.

 The Peace City Committee represents people from a variety of ‘Peace Groups’ who want to develop the values of peace, justice, human rights and non-violence as a foundation for City policies and local governance. Establishing the principles as a Declaration is the primary focus, which could be followed by ‘Peace City Projects’ in the future, as contained in the substantial Council Officer Report.

 Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown has now agreed to our request to register himself with ‘Mayors for Peace’ which is an international network of 5000 Mayors dedicated to nuclear disarmament.

 The Peace Foundation are proud supporters of the White Ribbon Campaign. WhiteRibbon is a campaign led by men who condemn violence against women and take action. We are part of a global campaign committed to ending violence against women. whiteribbon.org.nz

Welcome to The Peace Foundation Annual Report 2010-2011 with the Audit Report by Hayes Knight. It celebrates our accomplishments and ponders on our challenges for the year. Please email admin@peacefoundation.org.nz if you wish to receive a printed copy. 

Passing the winter solstice and celebrating Matariki, we now look forward to spring and a brighter future.

Lets celebrate the latest edition of Peace Works.

We are excited to be campaigning for Auckland to take on the new role of ‘Peace City’ which John Hincliff and Laurie Ross working tirelessly on this important issue.

We identify Bullying as a key issue of concern, with Yvonne Duncan giving us a comprehensive overview of what Bullying is and how our Cool Schools programme can be the instrument of change that we need to arrest this blight on our children, families and culture.

We also highlight upcoming events and cover many other important Peace issues and acknowledgements.

We welcome your feedback.

 Our latest edition of our bi-annual Newsletter is available for viewing here.