Stuart Rees

Stuart Rees

Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees AM is the Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation (founder of the Sydney Peace Prize), at the University of Sydney in Australia.

From 1978 to 2000 Rees was Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Prior to this he taught at Aberdeen & Southampton universities in the United Kingdom, at Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier in Canada, and in the U.S.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin.

Rees has published numerous books and non-academic activities have included community development, probation services and social work in the UK and Canada; work with "War on Poverty" programs in the U.S.A.; and work with the Save the Children non-governmental organisation in India and Sri Lanka.

Rees is a regular broadcaster on Australia's ABC Radio about the "means and meaning of peace with justice".

Bibliography

* "Social Work Face to Face" (1979)
* "Verdicts on Social Work" (1982)
* "Achieving Power: Practice and Policy in Social Welfare" (1991)
* "Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue" (2001)
* "Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively" (2004)

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