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<\/a><\/p>\n______________________________________________<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n In recognition of his tireless promotion of Peace, his denunciation of the immorality of war and the arms industry, and his inspiring commitment to building a fairer and violence-free world, is hereby awarded this DIPLOMA OF HONOR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303772,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303771\/revisions\/303772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> Alberto Portugheis is a member of the <\/span><\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>. By profession a <\/span><\/em>concert pianist and pedagogue<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0he\u00a0is an\u00a0active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance earned him\u00a0a nomination\u00a0for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Portugheis wrote\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Dear Ahed\u2026..The Game of War and a Path to Peace\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 a book that has received <\/span><\/em>critical acclaim<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Another successful book followed: <\/span><\/em>$$$$$s In Their Hearts<\/span>. In 2015 he founded the Movement <\/span><\/em>HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>which has many followers worldwide.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em>In 2018 HUFUD Latin America was born, based in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia and in 2020 HUFUD Africa was launched, based in Uganda.\u00a0 In Portugheis\u2019 writings, speeches, thoughts, ideas\u00a0and reflections transpire his desire \u201cto make people think\u201d and not take for granted what they read or hear, \u201cno matter where.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"