*[Enwl-eng] Peace Boat to Receive Award as Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021
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Peace Boat to Receive Award as Lifetime
Organizational War Abolisher of 2021
https://worldbeyondwar.org/warabolisher2021a
Today, September 13, 2021, World BEYOND War
announces as the recipient of the Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of
2021 award: Peace Boat.
An online presentation and acceptance event, with
remarks from representatives of Peace Boat will take place on October 6,
2021, at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, 8 a.m. Eastern Time, 2 p.m. Central European
Time, and 9 p.m. Japan Standard Time. The event is open to the public and
will include presentations of three awards, a musical performance, and three
breakout rooms in which participants can meet and talk with the award
recipients. Participation is free. Register here for Zoom link.
World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement,
founded in 2014, to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.
(See: https://worldbeyondwar.org ) In 2021 World BEYOND War is announcing
its first-ever annual War Abolisher awards.
The Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021 is
being announced today, September 13.
The David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War
Abolisher of 2021 (named for a co-founder of World BEYOND War) will be
announced on September 20.
The War Abolisher of 2021 will be announced on
September 27.
The recipients of all three awards will take part in
the presentations event on October 6. Accepting the award on behalf of Peace
Boat on October 6 will be Peace Boat Founder and Director Yoshioka Tatsuya.
Several other people from the organization will attend, some of whom you can
meet during the breakout room session.
The purpose of the awards is to honor and encourage
support for those working to abolish the institution of war itself. With the
Nobel Peace Prize and other nominally peace-focused institutions so
frequently honoring other good causes or, in fact, wagers of war, World
BEYOND War intends its award to go to educators or activists intentionally
and effectively advancing the cause of war abolition, accomplishing
reductions in war-making, war preparations, or war culture. Between June 1
and July 31, World BEYOND War received hundreds of impressive nominations.
The World BEYOND War Board, with assistance from its Advisory Board, made
the selections.
The awardees are honored for their body of work
directly supporting one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s
strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book “A Global
Security System, An Alternative to War.” They are: Demilitarizing Security,
Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace.
Peace Boat (see https://peaceboat.org/english ) is a
Japan-based international NGO working to promote peace, human rights, and
sustainability. Guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Peace
Boat’s global voyages offer a unique program of activities centered on
experiential learning and intercultural communication.
Peace Boat’s first voyage was organized in 1983 by a
group of Japanese university students as a creative response to government
censorship regarding Japan’s past military aggression in the Asia-Pacific.
They chartered a ship to visit neighboring countries with the aim of
learning first-hand about the war from those who had experienced it and
initiating people-to-people exchange.
Peace Boat made its first around-the-world voyage in
1990. It has organized more than 100 voyages, visiting more than 270 ports
in 70 countries. Over the years, it has done tremendous work to build a
global culture of peace and to advance nonviolent conflict resolution and
demilitarization in various parts of the world. Peace Boat also builds
connections between peace and related causes of human rights and
environmental sustainability — including through the development of an
eco-friendly cruise ship.
Peace Boat is a mobile classroom at sea.
Participants see the world while learning, both onboard and at various
destinations, about peacebuilding, through lectures, workshops, and hands-on
activities. Peace Boat collaborates with academic institutions and civil
society organizations, including Tübingen University in Germany, Tehran
Peace Museum in Iran, and as part of the Global Partnership for the
Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). In one program, students from Tübingen
University study how both Germany and Japan deal with understanding past war
crimes.
Peace Boat is one of the 11 organizations forming
the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the
prize that in recent decades, according to Nobel Peace Prize Watch, most
faithfully lived up to the intentions of Alfred Nobel’s will through which
the prize was established. Peace Boat has educated and advocated for a
nuclear-free world for many years. Through the Peace Boat Hibakusha project,
the organization works closely with atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, sharing their testimonies of the humanitarian impact of nuclear
weapons with people around the world during global voyages and recently
through online testimony sessions.
Peace Boat also coordinates the Global Article 9
Campaign to Abolish War which builds global support for Article 9 of the
Japanese Constitution — for maintaining and abiding by it, and as a model
for peace constitutions around the world. Article 9, using words nearly
identical to the Kellogg-Briand Pact, states that “the Japanese people
forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or
use of force as means of settling international disputes,” and also
stipulates that “land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential,
will never be maintained.”
Peace Boat engages in disaster relief following
disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as education and
activities for disaster risk reduction. It is also active in landmine
removal programs.
Peace Boat holds Special Consultative Status with
the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Peace Boat has around 100 staff members who
represent diverse ages, education histories, backgrounds, and nationalities.
Nearly all staff members joined the Peace Boat team after participating in a
voyage as a volunteer, participant, or guest educator.
Peace Boat’s Founder and Director Yoshioka Tatsuya
was a student in 1983 when he and fellow students started Peace Boat. Since
that time, he has authored books and articles, addressed the United Nations,
been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, led the Article 9 Campaign to
Abolish War, and been a founding member of the Global Partnership for the
Prevention of Armed Conflict.
Peace Boat’s voyages have been grounded by the COVID
Pandemic, but Peace Boat has found other creative ways to advance its cause,
and has plans for voyages as soon as they can be responsibly launched.
If war is ever to be abolished, it will be in great
measure due to the work of organizations like Peace Boat educating and
mobilizing thinkers and activists, developing alternatives to violence, and
turning the world away from the idea that war can ever be justified or
accepted. World BEYOND War is honored to present our very first award to
Peace Boat.
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