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31 July 2024
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The United Nations (UN) proclaimed that 30 July would be recognised as the International Day of Friendship in 2011. In 2024, the day promotes human solidarity in the face of global challenges and crises that undermine peace, security, development and social harmony. The UN encourages governments, international organisations, and society groups to use the day and any associated events to promote citizen dialogue, solidarity, mutual understanding, and reconciliation.
The theme of friendship can be found throughout ACU’s research publications. With strengths in health and wellbeing, religion and critical inquiry, and education, you can find ACU research discussing friendship as both a social mechanism and a vehicle to successful social programs in works from:
Interested readers can see findings from two separate ACU studies that illustrate friendship formation:
Friendship also acts as a significant safety net, affording protection to vulnerable individuals and communities:
Our behaviours are influenced by our friendships. The following two studies present findings that remind us these influences can improve our lives but also encourage unsafe activities.
Open access publications allow broader readership for ACU research. You can read these full texts and more of ACU’s research illustrating friendships importance to human wellbeing and as a research observation in the institutional repository, ACU Research Bank.
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