Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO was the founding chair of ICAN, a coalition of non-government organisations created to support a United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty. The treaty came into effect in 2017, the year ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

Award: 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Awarded for: Drawing attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons

Honorary University of Melbourne Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO was the founding chair of ICAN, a coalition of non-government organisations created to support a United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty. The treaty came into effect in 2017, the year ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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