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Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:19 pm (PST) 

Groundbreaking Rotary World Peace Symposium a success

By Antoinette Tuscano 

Salt Lake City - Rotary World Peace Fellows Cory McCruden from New 
York City, and Mwila Chigaga, from Zambia, had never met before this 
week. But the two fellows quickly realized they were part of a global 
family when they and nearly 400 other Rotary peace program 
participants, alumni, faculty, and Rotary members gathered this week 
for the first Rotary World Peace Symposium in Salt Lake City. 

"Meeting Mwila is like realizing I have a sister in Zambia," said 
McCruden.

"This is amazing," says Chigaga. "This peace symposium is historic. 
There's such an energy and spirit here. I feel so invigorated. 
Listening to other Peace Fellows talk makes me so proud of their 
accomplishments."

Represented here are some of the best and brightest from Rotary's two 
innovative peace programs, the Rotary Centers for International 
Studies in peace and conflict resolution, a graduate-level program 
marking its fifth anniversary, and the Rotary Peace and Conflict 
Studies Program, a short-term program aimed at professionals in 
governments and other agencies that was launched in 2006. 

Attendees heard panel discussions about how alumni and participants 
of the two programs are working to resolve conflicts worldwide. 

Edwin M. Epstein, the Rotary Peace Center director at the University 
of California at Berkeley, commended the Rotary Centers. "Rotarians 
have created something very special and very wonderful. In the 46 
years of my professional life as an educator, nothing I've 
experienced has ever come close to this."

Located at seven leading universities around the world, Rotary Peace 
Centers provide fellows the chance to study in a graduate-level 
program in conflict resolution, peace studies, international 
relations, and other related disciplines. Up to 60 Rotary World Peace 
Fellows are accepted each year through a globally competitive 
selection process.

"The University of Berkeley gave me the skills and tools to work in 
the field I wanted to," says former Peace Fellow Jeyashree Nadarajah, 
of Malaysia, who works in the UN office for the special 
representation of children involved in armed conflict. 

One of the symposium's keynote speakers, Gillian Sorenson, a senior 
adviser at the UN Foundation, emphatically told attendees: "Yes, 
peace is possible." But, she added, "Goodwill is not enough." It will 
require, work, vision, and the ability to seize the moment. She 
called upon the Peace Fellows to be "the first guard of a mighty 
peaceful army."

"Being a Peace Fellow is extremely well-regarded," said Chigaga, who 
graduated from the Duke University Peace Center and works for the 
director general of the International Labor Organization. "And 
because of the integrity of Rotary's name, I've discovered a big 
responsibility in carrying the name of Rotary with me."

"I really feel that I need to work hard to be up to the standard of 
my other Peace Fellows," said McCruden, who graduates in September 
from the Peace Center at the University of Bradford in West 
Yorkshire, England. "After hearing the stories of the other 
attendees, there's no way I can leave here and do nothing. Some of 
these people are really putting their lives in danger for this. We 
need to come together to reinforce one another."

Source: Rotary International News
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary

 
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