{"id":17560,"date":"2019-10-11T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=17560"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:07:38","slug":"sean-macbride-peace-prize-ceremony-for-bruce-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=17560","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n MacBride Peace Prize Ceremony for Bruce Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An announcement from the International Peace Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n

Every year the IPB awards a special prize to a person or organisation that has done outstanding work for peace, disarmament and\/or human rights. These were the principal concerns of\u00a0Sean MacBride, the distinguished Irish statesman who was Chairman of IPB from 1968-74 and President from 1974-1985. MacBride was a winner of the\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize (1974), deputy General Secretary of the UN and founder if the disarmament committee of the UN.<\/p>\n

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The Prize was established 1992, IPB\u2019s centenary year.<\/p>\n

For the Year 2019 the board of IPB decided to present awards to Bruce Kent:
\nBruce Kent is an internationally known peace activist and a \u201creal peace hero\u201d who, even in his 90th\u00a0year, remains an active campaigner and organizer for peace and human rights. He was one of the main speakers at the big march and demonstration against nucear weapons in London in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Where in the world can we find good leadership today?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bruce was ordained as a Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Westminster in London in 1958 and became a Chaplain to Pax Christi in from 1974-1977. He joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1960 and was elected chair from 1977-1979, becoming the General Secretary in 1979 for 6 years. He was elected CND Chair again from 1987-1990. He was also Chair of War on Want from 1974-1976 and was the British co-ordinator for the Hague Appeal for Peace in 1999. He is now a Vice-President of CND, Pax Christi and Movement for the Abolition of War (which he co-founded in 2001).<\/p>\n

He was also one of the founders and main organizers of the European Nuclear Disarmament Campaign in the 1980s. He was also, in 1988, one of the main organizers of a 1000-mile peace walk from Warsaw to NATO HQ in Brussels to call for a united peaceful nuclear-free Europe.<\/p>\n

Bruce was also IPB President from 1985 till 1992 and he has been an inspiration to so many people of all ages in the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Date(s) – Saturday – Oct 19, 2019, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm<\/p>\n

Location: St. Thomas hospital, London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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