Events

Individuals create societies. Our society shapes us as individuals. There is a defining relationship between how we are and the world we live in. At this free community event, you will cultivate inner peace through the practice of meditation and reflect on how to engage peacefully with family, colleagues, community and society. This event is […]

Wage Peace will host the first of a series of ‘Listening Circles’ at the Raising Peace Festival 2023: Listening for Peace. These Listening Circles are interactive sessions of listening, responding and imagining together, based on Wage Peace’ new podcast, Peace Pod. Peace Pod features some of the foremost academics, journalists and activists for peace on […]

Wage Peace will host the first of a series of ‘Listening Circles’ at the Raising Peace Festival 2023: Listening for Peace. These Listening Circles are interactive sessions of listening, responding and imagining together, based on Wage Peace’ new podcast, Peace Pod. Peace Pod features some of the foremost academics, journalists and activists for peace on […]

  To support Australians in coming together with care and compassion - each year the Australian Compassion Council holds a National Day of Compassion that offers a meaningful opportunity for all Australians to participate in learning about and practicing compassion.   The National Day is always held on 21 September, which is also the International Day […]

The Raising Peace Festival for 2023 is launching with an event that updates us on Australia's most significant peace event for 2023 - the referendum on the Voice to Parliament. Just before the final weeks of the campaign we will hear from Yes23, the official Voice campaign, on what we can all do to ensure […]

UNAA Queensland & St John's Cathedral Brisbane present:International Day of Peace Lecture 2023:Craig Foster AM Thursday 21 September, 7.00pm Live and online, St John's Cathedral, Brisbane 2023 is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this milestone year, UNAA Queensland and St John's Cathedral Brisbane are proud to present International Day […]

As Raising Peace has grown we have been excited to discover the diversity of peace action around Australia. In this session we will discover three of them, in the story of the peace movement in Ballarat, the work on mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in remote First Nations communities, and in unleashing the power of […]

This Session will describe the activities being undertaken by UNAA NSW to promote the UN WPS and YPS programs. It will include an introduction to the Peace and Security Pillar by the Vice President UNAA NSW, Tim Ford AO, followed by the launch of a new video describing progress of the Women Peace and Security […]

'Voice, Treaty, Truth' is only the start. Wiradjuri priest, writer and artist Glenn Loughrey has looked deeply at the Uluru Statement from the Heart and finds in it powerful potential for restorative justice in Australia - and more. In this session he will be in conversation with Emma Yates, a lawyer and mediator with a […]

In 2022 Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) released a comprehensive report about the growing intrusion of multinational weapons companies into primary and secondary STEM education. Weapons companies seek to create positive brand association in minors and their families, to promote and normalise careers in the development of lethal technology, and generate social license […]

The Faith Communities Council of Victoria, the Victorian Council of Churches, Humanists Australia, Religions for Peace Australia and others have chosen reflections, prayers, meditations and songs that inspire a longing for peace from diverse faiths and other traditions. Peaceful relationships and peaceful communities are central in all faith traditions and these voices are important to hear to […]