How Rotary District 7610 Encourages Rotary Members to be Champions of Positive Peace
We are a cause-based Rotary Club, chartered in 2020. Our Club is based on promoting Global Peace through service projects and community service both locally and globally.
Rotary District 7610’s Peacebuilding Conference – Sat. Feb 24, 2024
Rotary District 7610 is made up of 55 clubs in Northeast Virginia, and this includes the Rotary eClub of Global Peacebuilders. SIGN UP TODAY TO ATTEND!
https://www.dacdb.com/index.html?EventID=77703947
Stevenson’s Ridge
6901 Meeting St
Spotsylvania, VA 22553
Light Breakfast Buffet: Fruit, Bagels, Danish, Yogurts, Juice
Lunch Buffete: Sandwiches, Salads
Assorted Cookies & brownies
Any questions, please contact:
PDG Sheila Brennan
(703) 851-6214
scbrennanrotary@gmail.com
Become a Global Peacebuilder
Incorporating the Positive Peace Framework into their district conference is one of many ways that Rotary District 7610 leverages IEP research.
The club’s mission is “Embodying the Object of Rotary, embracing diversity, and creating bonds of friendship, we will strive to foster Positive Peace globally and within our communities, through creative technologies, communication, education, fellowship, and hands-on service projects, framing Positive Peace as the centre of their club endeavours.”
With the knowledge to identify the 8 Pillars of Peace, service projects transform into initiatives that build peace.
On their website, they feature Club Member Highlights comprised of members who completed the Positive Peace Academy and/or are certified as Peace Ambassadors. The Rotary eClub of Global Peacebuilders aims to have every member become a certified Ambassador.
Bill has recently been appointed as the Peacebuilder chair for District 7610. In this role, he has made significant strides toward engraining Positive Peace into the district’s work. He is currently in the process of establishing Peacebuilder Advocates who will be tasked with assisting clubs in forming their own Peacebuilding committees. Each Peacebuilding Advocate will gain a deeper understanding of IEP research, such as the difference between Negative Peace and Positive Peace and how to activate Positive Peace in their service projects, under Bill’s guidance.
Learn more about the Rotary eClub of Global Peacebuilders in this article by Juanita Cawley: An online club dedicated to peacebuilding
Rotary-IEP Partnership
Launched in 2017, the Rotary-Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) Partnership is one of Rotary’s strategic partnerships. Rotary’s key strength is the ability to convene and mobilize locally – Rotary members are experts at this. IEPs key strength is its decade long data driven peace research, which is being used to teach Rotary members to apply new peacebuilding methods to their communities while addressing underlying causes of conflicts.
The Rotary-IEP Partnership – through IEP’s Pillars of Positive Peace framework – provides a unique structure to:
- View peace as a process and a system versus a product or result
- Build capacity in how Rotary members think about peace and development
- Provide educational resources to move initiatives forward
