Stuart Rees
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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, in Canada at Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier, and in the U.S.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas, Austin.
Rees has published numerous books including: Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively (2004) Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue (2001) Achieving Power: Practice and Policy in Social Welfare (1991) Verdicts on Social Work (1982) Social Work Face to Face (1979)
Rees' other professional 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.
- 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".
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