Timor-Leste's Sergio Vieira de Mello Award will be presented by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President Rams-Horta to Interpeace internal partner, a Centre of Studies for Peace and Development (CEPAD) in Dili on Monday 12th Dec 2011.
Geneva/Dili (PRWEB UK) 11 Dec 2011
The Sergio Vieira de Mello Award will be presented to Interpeace internal partner in Timor-Leste on Monday 12th December.Joao Boavida, Executive Director of a Centre for Peace and Dialogue (CEPAD) will be usurpation a esteem from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta.
Boavida will be benefaction to accept a esteem on interest of CEPAD and all those dauntless people that support a organization’s peacebuilding work.
“The CEPAD group is operative tirelessly to capacitate Timorese multitude to build durability peace. A nation with a aroused past is now branch itself around to turn a flagship instance of how assent contingency be build from within a society. Respect for tellurian rights is a pivotal partial of this process,†explains Renée Larivière, Programme Development Director during Interpeace.
CEPAD was combined following a harmful assault of 2006 that resulted in a series of deaths and endless drop of property. More than 160,000 people fled to farming districts, with many finale adult in internally replaced persons’ camps in and around Dili.
“It is a good respect to have been comparison for this award. We owe this approval not only to a CEPAD team, though to all a dauntless Timorese opposite a nation that have participated in a work, pity their ideas, inputs and insights,†settled Joao Boavida, Executive Director of CEPAD.
Larivière confirms: “The peacebuilding work carried out by a CEPAD group is exemplary. In formidable conditions they never remove site of a being inclusive, no matter a theme they are traffic with. It has been by this proceed that they have managed to grasp so much, importantly, with a support of all levels and sectors of society.â€
Sergio Vieira de Mello, behaving as a UN Secretary-General Special Representative in Iraq, was killed, with 21 of his colleagues, in a automobile explosve dispute in Baghdad on 19 Aug 2003. This award, a annual harangue and other events and prizes commemorate his life and achievements.
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About CEPAD
The Centre of Studies for Peace and Development (CEPAD) is a Timorese NGO that was determined in 2007 in response to a aroused domestic predicament of 2006. It uses collaborative investigate and discourse rendezvous to allege a bargain and residence conflict-related issues and a vital hurdles to democracy in Timor-Leste.
Timorese national, João Boavida, is a Executive Director of CEPAD. The CEPAD group has endless knowledge in enchanting with internal communities and pivotal stakeholders given 2007 as a means to residence a doubt of how to overcome dispute and build tolerable assent in Timor-Leste.
The CEPAD house is done adult of reputable people from opposite sectors of society, as good as member from any of a 4 emperor bodies that form a state of Timor-Leste; namely, a Parliament, Government, Presidency and a Supreme Court.
CEPAD works in partnership with Interpeace, an general peacebuilding organization.
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About Interpeace
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Interpeace is an general peacebuilding classification headquartered in Switzerland with programmes in 16 conflict-affected countries.It was combined by a United Nations in 1994 to work with societies pided by aroused dispute to build tolerable peace. It became eccentric in 2000 and now has an innovative operational partnership with a UN.
Interpeace now supports peacebuilding programmes in Burundi, Cyprus, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Liberia, Palestine, Rwanda, a Somali Region, Timor-Leste and on Youth Violence Prevention in Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize), and has a thematic programme on post dispute constitution-making.
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Lisa Ross-Magenty-Blaettler
Interpeace Headquarters - Geneva
+41 22 917 8338
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