Ms. Sally Armstrong will be honoured at the Consortium for Peace Studies Annual Calgary Peace Prize Dinner
We are pleased to announce the 2010 recipient of the Calgary Peace Prize, human rights activist, documentary filmmaker and award-winning author Sally Armstrong.
Sally has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan, her eye witness reports have earned her awards including the Gold Award from the National Magazine Awards Foundation and the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. She received the Amnesty International Media Award in 2000 and again in 2002. She has received Honorary Doctorates from six Canadian Universities and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1998. Ms. Armstrong has also been honoured by numerous organizations including the YWCA of Toronto (Women of Distinction Award in Communications - 1996 ), National Magazine Awards Foundation (Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement - 2003), International Alliance for Women (World of Difference Award - 2005) and received the Red Cross Humanitarian Award - New Brunswick Region in 2005. In 2008 she received the Clarkson Laureate for public service at Massey College, University of Toronto. And in May 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
Her book Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan was published by Penguin Books on May 23, 2002. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor was published by Random House in March 2007. Her new book Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: the Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women was published in November 2008.
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Calgary Peace Prize Dinner
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Hotel Arts - 119 12 Ave SW
Cocktails: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm
Tickets:$175.00 each
Advance Ticket Discount:
Ticket orders received by March 1, 2010 will be available at the discounted price of $150.00
Tickets to the Calgary Peace Prize Dinner can be purchased online through the University of Calgary's secure Net Community website: https://netcommunity.ucalgary.ca/peaceprize
Attendees wishing to pay by cheque or cash may do so by sending in the attached ticket order form with your preferred method of payment.
$100 of your ticket purchase is considered a donation in support of the Consortium for Peace Studies activities. You will receive a tax receipt from the UofC Development Office shortly after your order has been processed. From all of us at the Consortium, we thank you for your support.
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Kelly Dowdell, MA
Program Manager
Consortium for Peace Studies
(403)220-2136
www.ucalgary.ca/~peaceuc/
