rotary, and the role of rotary peace...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace
Fellows
![Page 2: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Brief overview of the Rotary Peace Fellowship
The Peace Fellowship aims to identify and invest in peace-builders globally in order to:
• Empower
• Educate, and
• Increase capacity of peace-builders.
![Page 3: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
How does the Fellowship work?
• Choose one of six excellent universities (not in your home country) for Masters degree
• Professional training.
• There is also an ‘Applied Field Experience’ component for three months prior to writing the dissertation.
![Page 4: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
How does the Fellowship contribute to building peace?
• Build the skills needed for Peace Fellows to act as leaders and catalysts for peace and conflict resolution.
• Bringing professionals together to network and share experiences.
![Page 5: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Who are Rotary Peace Fellows?
![Page 6: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Who are the Peace Fellows? (cont.)
Class XII at University of Bradford:
• Country Representative for German Red Cross in Haiti
• A qualified medical doctor from Nigeria who has dedicated herself to public health promotion
• The first judge in India to preside over the new special courts in Bombay related to prosecution of sex trafficking cases.
![Page 7: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Who am I? • Sharon Edington
• 31 years old (29 when I was a Fellow)
• Have worked in Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Chile, Republic of Georgia, Palestine, Lebanon, Bosnia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Kenya.
![Page 8: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Why was I selected?
Professional Experience
![Page 9: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Ministry of Education, Atacama Desert, Chile (6.5 months, 2006)
![Page 10: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Youth Movement for Peace and Non-violence, Sierra Leone (3 months, 2007)
![Page 11: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Deputy Project Manager, Agriculture sector, Papua New Guinea (4 years, 2007-2011)
![Page 12: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
ActionAid Palestine, West Bank (2 years, 2011 – 2013)
![Page 13: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
CARE International, Tbilisi, Georgia (2013)
![Page 14: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Why was I selected? • Service to my community:
• Refugee support (2002 – 2011)
• Rotary support in Papua New Guinea
• Indigenous Australians (Aboriginals-Torres Strait)
• Leadership skills• Founded a charity• Professionally and personally
• Language skills • Some Spanish, plus very basic Arabic
• Public-speaking• Agency representative for ActionAid Palestine for the
Humanitarian Country Team Advocacy Group and the Association International Development Agency
![Page 15: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Will I return Rotary’s investment?
Yes, I will.
• Made the most of the Fellowship through:
• Linkages
• Volunteer work
• Professional development
• Syria crisis refugee work in Beirut
• British Red Cross
• UNHCR placement in Sarajevo
• Shelterbox
![Page 16: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Generally, do Peace Fellows really make a difference?
Yes
![Page 17: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Example 1: Richelieu Marcel Allison
• Studied at University of Bradford, 2012 - 2013
• Has designed and obtained funding for a three-country project (Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea): Focuses on youth empowerment and engagement with government to enhance accountability
• Also Rich’s organisation ‘West Africa Youth Network’ is running the Nigerian component of a million dollar National Endowment for Democracy project running 2014 – 2015 (2 years)
![Page 18: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Example 2: Gavin Raymond• New Zealander
• 11 years in the NZ army including in the Middle East
• Now works on security sector reform
• Transparency International’s Defense and Security team in the UK
![Page 19: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
• International Christian University Rotary Alumni from 2012
• Now a social entrepreneur, she founded and a month ago launched Refugees on Rails in Berlin – a coding school for refugees – initial intake of 49 students, with volunteer teachers and mentors.
Example 3: Anne Kjaer Riechert
![Page 20: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Are Fellowships a good investment for Rotary?
• The Fellows already have strong experience so what is the point of the Fellowship?
• Most countries don’t have universities with strong peace programs (eg. Canada or developing countries)
• Bringing fellows together to form a network of people who will help each other advance Rotary’s goals.
![Page 21: Rotary, and the Role of Rotary Peace Fellowsclubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050081/en-au/... · builders to be the change you want to see in the world. Created Date: 3/14/2016](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051914/60060b3524fef35eac777934/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Peace Fellowships
Supporting peace-builders to be the change you want to see in the world.