1. Becoming A Peacebuilder Club in Rotary District 7610
ROTARY PEACE INITIATIVE
Juanita Cawley,
District Rotary Foundation Chair
Erik Haas,
District Peacebuilder Chair
Welcome Message
September 17, 2016
Becoming A Peacebuilder Club in Rotary District 7610

2. The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

3. THE WORK OF ROTARY

4. AREA OF FOCUS: PEACE

5. ROTARY AND PEACE

6. WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF PEACE IN ROTARY ?
1905 Rotary founded for fellowship and mutual helpfulness
1910 Five objects of Rotary developed
1917 The Rotary Foundation founded

7. 1921 Rotary Convention Edinburgh, Scotland
At the 1921 convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rotarians agreed to incorporate peacemaking into Rotary’s constitution and bylaws.

8. 1935 Rotary Convention Mexico City
“When a good Rotarian crosses a borderline, he becomes an ambassador of goodwill. Ambassadors of goodwill will dedicate themselves to the eradication of misunderstanding.”

9. 1945
49 Rotary members served in 29 delegations to the United Nations Charter Conference.

10. Rotary maintains close relationships
TODAY
Rotary maintains close relationships
with many UN agencies.
RI’s representatives to the UN host an annual Rotary Day at the United Nations to celebrate this partnership for peace.

11. ROTARY PEACE INITIATIVES
1947 Global Understanding through International Scholars
1965 Global Connections through GSE, now VTT to promote International Understanding
1987 First Peace Forums
2002 First Rotary Peace Scholar class
2013 Global Grants with areas of Focus

12. ROTARY PEACE CENTERS
Rotary Peace Centers offer master’s degrees or professional development certificates in fields related to peace studies and conflict resolution.
The Rotary Peace Centers program is Rotary’s premier educational program and a top priority for achieving the Foundation’s mission of world understanding and peace.
Up to 100 Rotary Peace Fellows are selected annually for master’s degree programs in international relations, peace studies, conflict resolution, and related subjects, or for a three-month professional certificate program.

13. PEACE CENTER FELLOWSHIPS
The Rotary Peace Centers program has a vision of sustainable peace:
encompassing a network of peacebuilders and community leaders dedicated to preventing and resolving conflicts across the global community
The Rotary Peace Centers program was established in 2002 with a vision of creating sustainable peace by building networks of peacebuilders and community leaders that are dedicated to preventing and resolving today’s global conflicts.
Rotary funds some of the world’s most dedicated and brightest professionals to study at our Rotary Peace Centers. These fellows are committed to the advancement of peace, and often go on to serve as leaders in national governments, NGOs, the military, law enforcement, and international organizations such as the United Nations and World Bank.

14. DEFINING PEACE Peace Fellow Patricia Shafer defines:
Peacemaking – as stopping bullets
Peacekeeping – as negotiating
Peacebuilding – as
creating an environment
of security through
providing education,
water, hygiene, and food.

15. WHAT IS A PEACE BUILDER CLUB?
A New Initiative within Rotary District 7610 beginning in

16. WHAT IS A PEACE BUILDER CLUB?
A Peacebuilder Club is a Rotary club that is dedicated to diminishing the root causes of conflict: the need for food, water, shelter, health care, literacy, jobs, and human rights, breaking this cycle of devastation and despair, and to helping create an environment of security through providing education, water, hygiene, or food.

17. PREPARING TO BECOME A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Form a Peacebuilder Committee in your club
Learn the meaning of peacebuilding.
Look for a leader.
Look for members interested in Rotary and peacebuilding.

18. PREPARING TO BECOME A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Learn about peacebuilding
Learn about Rotary’s history in Peacebuilding.
Participate in district training about peacebuilding.
Learn about peace initiatives that other Districts, clubs and Rotarians have undertaken.

19. PREPARING TO BECOME A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Involve Youth/New Generations
Brainstorm ways to involve youth.
Think of ways to partner with schools
Think of ways to serve youth

20. QUALIFYING AS A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Accomplish three of the following:
Integrate peace into a club service project and/or partner with groups outside of Rotary.
Submit a candidate for a Rotary Peace Fellowship and/or work on recruitment efforts for the district.

21. QUALIFYING AS A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Commit $500 towards district support for Rotary Peace Centers and actively recruit qualified candidates.
Participate in peace projects with other clubs.

22. QUALIFYING AS A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Engage in a Conflict Resolution program in your community.
Sponsor a program, or
Be a facilitator of a program, or
Actively participate in a program.

23. QUALIFYING AS A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Work with your governmental officials on a joint peace project for your community.
(OR Survey your own community, seek areas where your club can assist your Government in making your community more peaceful and safe and conduct a joint peace project)
Google Rotary District 7080 Peace Community Program for further information. This is an unofficial Rotary program.

24. BECOMING A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Prepare an end of year report on the progress of your peace project(s).

25. BECOMING A PEACEBUILDER CLUB
Submit your end of year progress report to our District Governor by June 1 and to the Rotary Action Group for Peace for posting on its website for other Rotarians to learn and be inspired by your work.

26. RESOURCES

27. Peacebuilder Conference
RESOURCES
Peacebuilder Conference
October 29, 2016
University of Mary Washington
Stafford Campus
Sponsored by
Rotary District 7610
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW

28. QUESTIONS?
Erik Haas, District Peacebuilder Chair , Lester Schoene, District Peace Fellowships Chair, Juanita Cawley, District Rotary Foundation Chair,

29. ACTIVITY
A Peacebuilder Club is a Rotary club that is dedicated to diminishing the root causes of conflict, breaking this cycle of devastation and despair, and to helping create an environment of security. Brainstorm club project ideas to help diminish conflict in your community or world.