Peace Village (Winnipeg, Manitoba) the negative images that the media had been releasing of Mohawks. He described the Peace Village as a sacred place Peace Village (Winnipeg, Manitoba) On September 1, 1990, Indigenous activists set up a “Peace Village” on the front lawn of the Provincial Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The encampment was to stay up indefinitely in anticipation of a peaceful resolution to the Oka Crisis. The goal of the Peace Village was to show support for the Mohawks of Kanehsatake and Kahnawake protesting near Oka Quebec and to call for a peaceful resolution in the armed stand-off between them and
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Hiroshima, and forty years after the signing of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, the Pugwash Conferences and Joseph Rotblat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly The Norwegian Nobel committee hoped that awarding the prize to Rotblat and Pugwash would In his acceptance speech, Rotblat quoted a key phrase from the Manifesto: From the 1965 Pugwash conference came a recommendation to establish the International Foundation for Science "in order to address the stultifying conditions under which younger faculty members in the universities of developing countries were attempting to do research". The organization gives grants to early-career scientists in low-income countries for work