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2023 IVP Annual Report
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SCC 2024 – Call for Special Volunteers
Two workcamps of IVP Indonesia
Please help us to find volunteers for our two camps below!
Thank you in advance….
Kind regards,
IVP-Indonesia team
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ID-IVP 11.1 Semoya Eco-Farming Camp, 1st of July- 14th of July 2024
Semoya is a Javanese traditional village located in the Yogyakarta region. The society here still maintains its agricultural tradition, transforming it actually to eco-friendly agriculture. As a tourist village destination too, the Semoya community continues to preserve Javanese culture as one of their daily activities. Work: (amongst others): producing organic fertiliser, creating a perma-culture garden, supporting community and cultural arts activities.
ID-IVP 11.2 Sendangguwo Permaculture Camp, 3rd of July- 16th of July 2024
This garden in Semarang focuses on developing organic farming production facilities by using the natural resources available around the small garden, managed independently. Work: helping -together with local volunteers- starting an organic fertiliser production centre for the organic farming community in Semarang and organizing a farming workshop about permaculture principles implementation.
Raising Peace ANZAC Day statement 2024 – Australia can become a global champion of peace
Australia can become a global champion of peace
Raising Peace ANZAC Day statement 2024
This ANZAC Day 2024, the Raising Peace network of Australian peace organisations remembers the men and women of all nations, including First Nations, who have been killed and injured by war. We stand together to say without equivocation: the best way to honour their memory is to end war and commit to peace.
It is remarkable and distressing that Australians are being told that the lesson of ANZAC Day, built on a calamitous campaign at Gallipoli, is not that war is a disastrous endeavour, but rather that war is noble. The trauma and moral injury of war remain unrecognised and unacknowledged.
A nation that tries to found its identity on its military past risks engendering a ‘war first’ mentality in generations to come, rather than one that embraces peace. You cannot pick and choose which wars to honour. The relative clarity of the fight against Nazi Germany is absent from the Frontier War’s campaign of conquering Australia’s First Nations people, of the colonial Boer War, of the First World War’s horrors, or of the wars since that have been fought in support of United States’ hegemony.
Humanity needs to outgrow war, especially as nuclear weapons can destroy civilization itself. A tide of peace organisations grew out of World War 1; and in the shadow of World War 2 the United Nations Charter codified a peaceful global movement to ‘promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom’. Today we possess incredible tools of diplomacy, communication and of technology that enable us to resolve disputes without resorting to violence.
Australia helped to write the UN Charter, but all too quickly our leaders were willing to destroy more young Australian lives in war. In Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan we fought in wars with little justification and with disastrous outcomes.
Australia’s current fear of China, bolstered by the poorly conceived and costly AUKUS initiative, is misguided. In a situation that is reminiscent of World War 1, the world’s great powers are seemingly incapable of changing course away from conflict. A conventional war between the USA and China would be massively destructive to people and to the environment. The threat of nuclear annihilation makes it totally unthinkable.
Nations are responsible for assuring the security of their people. They can defend their borders by civil or military means; they can be friends and partners with neighbours; and they can contribute to global peace through myriad channels. Australia’s defence forces can defend our land without destroying someone else’s. They can contribute to peace-keeping as part of UN-sanctioned international operations. But there is no justification for military adventurism by any nation.
By committing itself to peace, Australia would honour all soldiers, family and community members killed, injured, and traumatised in war. In every international engagement it can commit to asking first: what is the way to resolve this peacefully? It can end the intrusion of the defence industry into our schools and universities, replacing it with investment in peacefocused education. Australia can become a champion of scholarship and the practice of peace-making, peace-keeping and peace-building. And, if it chooses to learn from its Indigenous population, Australia is uniquely placed to become the world’s leading
proponent of First Nations approaches to peace-building.
On ANZAC Day 2024, Raising Peace urges all Australians to remember the fallen and work for a peaceful future for all the peoples of the world.
SCI Asian Newsletter March 2024
Raising Peace April news: Our last podast episode (for now)
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Notice of IVP AGM 2024
Dear IVP Member,
The 28th AGM of International Volunteers for Peace will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, between 6:30 and 8pm. An agenda and other meeting papers will be circulated ahead of time.
At this meeting, a narrative report and annual financial report will be formally presented; and a new Executive Committee will be voted in. Nominations for any of the positions of Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and five committee members should reach secretary@ivp.org.au up to the time of the meeting. Likewise any matter members may wish to raise.
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Stephen Horn
Join with Google Meet
Thursday, 23 May 2024 · 6:30 – 8:00pm
Time zone: Australia/Sydney
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Raising Peace ANZAC Day statement 2024
This ANZAC Day 2024, a network of Australian peace organisations remembers the men and women of all nations, including First Nations, who were killed and injured by war. We stand together to say without equivocation: the best way to honour their memory is to end war and commit to peace.
It is remarkable that Australians are being told that the lesson of ANZAC Day, built on a calamitous campaign at Gallipoli, is not that war is a disastrous endeavour, but rather that war is noble. The trauma and moral injury of war remain unrecognised and unacknowledged.
A nation that tries to found its identity on its military past risks engendering a ‘war first’ mentality in generations to come, rather than one that embraces peace. You cannot pick and choose which wars to honour. The relative clarity of the fight against Nazi Germany is absent from the Frontier War’s campaign of conquering Australia’s First Nations people, of the colonial Boer War, of the First World War’s horrors, or of any of the wars since that have been fought in support of United States’ hegemony.
Humanity needs to outgrow war. A tide of peace organisations grew out of World War 1 and the United Nations Charter, written in the shadow of World War 2, codified a peaceful global movement to ‘promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom’.
Today we possess incredible tools of diplomacy, communication and of technology that enable us to resolve disputes without resorting to violence.
Australia helped to write the UN Charter, but all too quickly our leaders were willing to destroy more young Australian lives in war. In Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan we fought in wars with little justification and disastrous outcomes.
Australia’s current fear of China, bolstered by the poorly conceived and costly AUKUS initiative, is misguided. It is reminiscent of WWI, as the world’s great powers are seemingly incapable of changing course away from conflict. A conventional war between the USA and China would be massively destructive to people and to the environment. The threat of nuclear annihilation makes it unthinkable.
Nations are responsible for assuring the security of their people. They can defend their borders by civil or military means; they can be friends and partners with neighbours; and they can contribute to global peace through myriad channels. Our defence forces can defend our land without destroying someone else’s. They can contribute to peace-keeping as part of sanctioned international operations. But there is no justification for military adventurism by any nation.
By committing itself to peace, Australia can best honour all those soldiers, family and community members killed, injured, and traumatised in war. In every international engagement it can commit to asking first: what is the way to resolve this peacefully? It can end the intrusion of the defence industry into our schools and universities, replacing it with investment in peace focused education. Australia could become the world’s leading proponent of First Nations approaches to peace-building.
It can become a champion of scholarship and practice of peace-making, peace-keeping and peace-building.
On ANZAC Day 2024, Raising Peace urges all Australians to remember the fallen and work for a peaceful future for us all.
Issued by: raisingpeace.org.au
The Voice
Australians will be asked later this year to vote for the inclusion in the Australian constitution of a clause recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as First Peoples, and establishing a representative body that can advise parliament and the executive arm of government on issues of importance to indigenous people.
The Voice and recognition are both landmark issues for the country. IVP supports both, and urges all Australians to give consideration to voting Yes, to these straightforward changes.
Because the constitution is not front of mind; indeed these changes will be of immediate interest only within the legal community; does not mean that these proposed changes are not important, and positively affecting how we see ourselves, and how the world sees us. The format of the change came from indigenous people themselves; it is modest in conception but profound in its resetting of how Australians share the continent, within its deep history of human occupation, and its recent reconstitution as an extension of British nation building.
The Voice will place indigenous lives at the heart of Australia’s governance, not at its fringes. It represents a stage in our growth, bringing the majority with their origins in other continents and those who can claim those with origins in the thousands of years of Australia’s pre settlement history on a common footing. In this respect it is a step to bettering the lives of indigenous and non indigenous alike, respecting the just claims to equity within the larger Australian polity.
International Volunteers for Peace.