Peace is Possible

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Peace is Possible
Marco Nicosia
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Peace is more than the absence of war

• On average, 20 to 30 armed conflicts
• In the last 15 years alone, 3.6 million people
  have died
• More than 1.7 million children

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The Rotary Centers for International Studies in
Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Seven prestigious universities
• 60 Rotary World Peace Fellows each year

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The Rotary Centers for International Studies in
Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Duke University and University of North Carolina
  at Chapel Hill, USA (Joint Rotary Center)
• International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
• Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
• University of California, Berkeley, USA
• University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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The Rotary Centers for International Studies in
Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Masters degree in
• Conflict resolution
• Peace studies
• International relations and related areas

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The Rotary Centers for International Studies in
Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Responding to hunger with food security
• Disease with health care
• Illiteracy with education
• Poverty with sustainable development
• Environmental degradation with conservation

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Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand

• Intensive 3-month course
• Established in July 2006 - professionals from
  around the world- conflict resolution and
  mediation strategies
• - to prevent and to resolve conflict- to foster
  policies and create settings that ensure peace
  worldwide
• - mid- to upper-level professionals in
  governments, non-governmental organizations and
  private corporations

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Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program

• Up to 30 program participants per session for two
  sessions annually
• Includes academic and practical fieldwork
• Aims to
• Inspire
• Offer opportunities
• Make Rotary more effective

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Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program

• Minimum 5 years work experience
• Hold established career in field industry, and/or
  position relating to peace peaceful conflict
  resolution
• Program funding
• Program costs funded through a cooperative effort
  between TRF participant employers
• TRF expenses funded through DDF other
  contributions

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Rotary Centers Major Gift Initiative

• 95 million endowment fund to the Rotary Centers
  by 2015.
• 35.8 million towards this initiative

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The Difference with Ambassadorial Scholarships

• An ambassadorial scholarship is a one-to-two-year
  scholarship for any university abroad where the
  student has not previously lived or studied.
• Also available as a 3 or 6-month cultural
  scholarship to study languages
• The scholarship can be used to obtain a primary
  (or bachelors) degree in a specific discipline,
  or can be used by graduate students towards a
  masters degree

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The Difference with Ambassadorial Scholarships

• Rotary Centers scholars have to study in the
  humanitarian field (Ambassadorial scholars can
  study anything they wish, from medicine to music)
• The Rotary Centers are much more competitive than
  the Ambassadorial scholarship programs (around 60
  students a year go to the Centers, whereas 822
  Ambassadorial scholars went out in the year
  2006-2007)

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Peace is doing what it takes to make a difference

• Working on peace and reconciliation projects in
  the Great Lakes region of the Democratic Republic
  of the Congo
• Assisting orphaned and vulnerable children and
  people affected by HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
• Conducting a civic education campaign on the
  constitution throughout southern Sudan
• Working for the World Banks Justice for the Poor
  project in Cambodia
• Serving as the senior legal adviser to the chief
  electoral officer for Afghanistan
• Coordinating a police training program for the
  Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development in
  Thailand

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Where Rotary Center Scholarsare today

• United Nations
• WHO
• World Bank
• UNICEF
• Human Rights Watch
• Working in counter-terrorism
• Furthering peace processes in countries where
  terror is part of daily life

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Peace is reaching out to others

• Help us make peace possible