Peace building links and resources

Websites AusAID resources

Hiroshima Peace Site URL:  http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html Hiroshima Peace Site contains a historical account of the Bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War, an examination of the nuclear threat during the period of the Cold War, as well as a collection of peace declarations and affirmations. Nobel Peace Prize URL:  http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/ Three educational games - Peace Dove explores issues around nuclear disarmament; Prisoners of War explores the protection of prisoners of war; Conflict Map explores where the major conflicts of the twentieth century occurred. Peace Is In Our Hands URL:  http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/ United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) website includes links to UN documents about peace and activities for developing a culture of peace. There is also links to national organisations and useful publications. Peace Keeping (UN CyberSchoolBus Briefing Paper) URL:  http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/peacekeeping/ United Nations Cyberschoolbus briefing papers give an overview, progress that's already been made, focus on a specific aspect, the next steps to be made, student activities and resources for the particular issue.

AusAID resources Focus articles Focus, a quarterly magazine about the Australian Government's overseas aid program provides a large number of items about environmental programs around the world. Peace Posters Author: AusAID Description This series is made up of four A2 (42cm x 60cm) posters, each showing how peace affects different parts of the community. The posters look at peace and gender, peace and agriculture, peace and education, and peace and governance. The images include a short description of how peace promotes development in the areas of gender, agriculture, education and governance. The images are from communities throughout Bougainville. The posters are a simple, colourful and informative resource for the classroom. Where to get it: National Mailing and Marketing 11 Tralee Street Hume ACT 2620 PO Box 7077 Canberra BC 2610 Ph: 02 6269 1050 Fax: 02 6269 2770 Email: books@ausaid.gov.au     AusAID Peace Poster series Landmine Posters AusAID's series of three posters to show how their programs are addressing the effects of landmines. The posters illustrate how landmine survivors in Cambodia are rebuilding their lives. A little girl learns to use her new prosthetic leg, young men play volleyball and a man is able to tend his garden and travel to sell his vegetables.

Australian aid: Approaches to peace, conflict and development (AusAID) URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/ausaid_peace.pdf Provides examples of the approach taken in the Australian aid program to development activities in conflict-afflicted or post-conflict countries. Peace, Conflict and Development Policy (AusAID) URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/conflict_policy.pdf This AusAID policy paper provides a framework for improving the aid program's ability, as an important part of the Government's broader efforts, to address conflict and instability. In addition to strengthening the more established aid program roles of humanitarian relief and reconstruction, the approach outlined in the paper will increase the aid program's focus on preventing conflict and building peace. To achieve this, the capacity of the aid program to analyse and understand conflict will be enhanced, its flexibility to respond quickly to changing conflict dynamics will be increased, and its relationships with key partners will be strengthened. Rule of Law on Peace Operations from the Perspective of an Institutional Donor URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/challenges_APCML_paper.pdf A paper from AusAID presented to the 2002 Conference of the Challenges of Peace Operations Project hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law (in association with the Department of Defence and the University of Melbourne Law School). This paper discusses the practical expression of support for the establishment and maintenance of the rule of law in countries wreaked by violent conflict, and complementary action between military and humanitarian personnel required to promote sustainable peace in countries emerging from conflict.

AusAID Peace Poster series