"Training for Trusteeship" is one of the main upcoming events of the Weeramantry Centre and it will be held at the Subhodi Institute of Integral Education, Piliyandala, Sri Lanka. This residential workshop will bring together undergraduate students from all the universities in Sri Lanka and some of the leading youth groups in Sri Lanka to exchange ideas and views on how to move toward a sustainable future.
Judge
Christopher Weeramantry Receives NAPF Lifetime Achievement Award
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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.
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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“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.”
For the Promotion of Peace through Intercultural Understanding
Judge
C G Weeramantry conferred Sri Lanka's highest National Award
- Sri Lankabhimanya
Judge C G
Weeramantry was conferred Sri Lanka's highest National Honour
the Sri Lankabhimanya ( The Pride of Sri Lanka) by His Excellency
the President Mahinda Rajapakshe on 1st December 2007.
Sri Lankabhimanya
is the highest National Honour of Sri Lanka, it is the highest
civil honour conferred for exceptionally outstanding and
most distinguished service to the nation.
Judge receiving the Sri Lankabhimanya
Judge with the Sri Lankabhimanya
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International
References to WICPER’S work in awards to Judge Weeramantry
UNESCO
Peace Prize 2006
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The citation of
the UNESCO Peace Education Prize 2006 to the founder described
the Centre as having "contributed to the promotion of peace
education, human rights, intercultural education, social
integration, interfaith understanding, environmental protection,
international law, disarmament and sustainable development".
The Centre was commissioned by the Sri Lanka Law
Commission to research two neglected areas in the
Justice System in Sri Lanka, namely the protection
of witnesses and the rights of victims of crime.....
The Weeramantry International
Centre for Peace Education and Research is based upon the philosophy
and work of His Excellency Judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry,
former Vice President of the International Court of Justice and
former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
The work of the Centre will
be based on three pillars. Each of these is an indispensible instrument
of Peace.
The Centre is a non-political,
independent and non-sectarian organisation free of influences
of any kind and will be firmly based on foundations of scholarship
and universal goodwill.
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