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Judge
Christopher Weeramantry Receives NAPF Lifetime Achievement Award
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from Award
On
April 12, 2008, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation presented a Lifetime
Achievement Award for Distinguished Peace Leadership to Judge Christopher
Weeramantry .
The
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is presented to
“outstanding individuals who have made significant long-term contributions to
building a more peaceful world.” Its purpose, like other Foundation
awards, is to honor distinguished individuals and to shine a light on peace
leadership as a model to inspire a larger societal commitment to peace and to
help empower a new generation of peace leaders.
http://www.wagingpeace.org/
Judge
Weeramantry Awarded the 2007 Right Livelihood Prize

In an esteemed ceremony His Excellency
Judge C. G. Weeramantry was awarded the prestigious Right
Livelihood Prize (Alternative Nobel Prize) on 7th December
2007 at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
Right Livelihood Award 2007
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from Award
“Christopher Weeramantry set up the
‘Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education
and Research’ in Sri Lanka in 2001. It rests on the
three pillars of Peace Education, Cross Cultural Understanding
and International Law as an Instrument of Peace. The work
of the Centre covers all these aspects both locally and
globally. In Sri Lanka, the Centre holds camps for school
children and university students from different Sri Lankan
backgrounds, in order to foster inter-cultural understanding.
It also conducts lectures and seminars on these topics,
sometimes by itself and sometimes in association with organisations
like the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Centre
has also produced detailed reports for the Sri Lankan Law
Reform Commission on both the protection of witnesses and
the compensation of victims of crime and terrorism.”
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