(Closing date 26 February 2008)
Activating Human Rights and Peace
An International Conference
1-4 July 2008
Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre, Byron Bay NSW, Australia
"I welcome the conference on Activating Human Rights and Peace that the Centre for Peace and Social Justice of Southern Cross University is hosting between 1-4 July 2008. It is easy to talk about human rights and peace. Forests of trees are destroyed in the documentation dealing with these subjects. However, activating them and translating aspirations into reality is the real challenge for our species and our world. A meeting devoted to translating ideas into action will be well timed in mid-2008. I hope that there will be a strong attendance with many notions to challenge the mind and to inspire action."
- Justice Michael Kirby, Patron, Centre for Peace and Social Justice.
Confirmed Keynotes:
- Aruna Gopinath, Dept of Politics & International Relations, HELP University College, Malaysia
- Judy Atkinson,Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
- Dede Oetomo, Airlangga University and Founder, Gaya Nusantara, Indonesia
- Mutassim Abu El Hawa, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel
- Ilana Meallem, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel
- Graham Innes, Human Rights Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, University of Iowa Law School, USA
- Ranbir Singh, Nalsar University of Law, India
- Kevin Clements, Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland
- Bee Chen Goh, Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University
