What are Rotary Peace Centers?

Teaching peace is no different than any other skill. It can be cultivated with the right practice, passion, and guidance.

The seven Peace Centers – located in Bangkok, Thailand; Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Bradford, England; Tokyo, Japan; Brisbane, Australia; Kampala, Uganda; and Uppsala, Sweden – guide peace fellows to become catalysts of peace. Through academic training, practice, and global networking opportunities the Rotary Peace Fellowship leads to fulfilling careers that involve building peace in their everyday lives.

• 93 per cent of working alumni have a job connected to peace development

• 90 per cent of alumni have opportunities to connect and collaborate with Rotary networks and partners

• $188 million USD has been contributed to the program

Peace Scholars Speak

"I am amazed at the array of topics I have been able to dive into during my time at Makerere University. The diverse body of fellows and the depth of knowledge and expertise of my lecturers at Africa’s most prestigious University is extraordinary. The lecturers don't just bring with them titles of doctorship or professorship, but very practical experiences that have made it easy to grasp many theoretical approaches to peacebuilding."

Patience Rusare

"The teachers, trainers, and other practitioners come from different professional and educational backgrounds. Their well-prepared classes combined with their facilitation skills, the well-oriented class discussions and other assignments highly increased our theoretical knowledge of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. This knowledge was later reinforced with the enriching field excursions and other site visits to various organizations and institutions working on positive peace.”

Fikiri Nzoyisenga

“The Rotary Peace Fellowship program came at a point in my life where I wanted to validate my work. Some of the skills I took back from the fellowship include better communication in the nonviolent space. I feel supported by this community and can reach out to any peace fellow in the world.”

ElsaMarie

D’Silva,

CEO, Red Dot Foundation

“I found the Rotary Peace Fellowship program because of my interest in prevention of trauma and abuse and wanted to learn more about peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and mediation since a large part of trauma is related to interpersonal violence.”

Sombat Tapanya, clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Chiang Mai University

“The fellowship opened up my thinking, created new pathways, provided a new set of tools, and most important, opened up a whole new network of people and resources.”

Charlie Allen, Director of Partnerships, Institute for Economics and Peace

Source: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/peace-fellowshipscertificate-program