Rotary A4 Peace Brochure

Derry~Londonderry 24 - 26 May 2013An Invitation from R.I. PresidentSakuji Tanaka

defining, making, building and working the peace

Global Peace ForumDerry~Londonderry

The Rotary Club of Londonderry

On behalf of the Members of the Rotary Club of Londonderry and our partners from the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at the University of Ulster, we are delighted to invite you to come to Derry from May 24th-26th 2013, to participate in our Global Peace Forum.

We are especially delighted to welcome our World President Mr Sakuji Tanaka with his guests and our own Mr Jack Cunningham, Governor of District 1160-Ireland.

For our great and historic city, 2013 is a year of incredible convergence which may never again be repeated. Our city which was built between 1613-1616, is marking its 400th birthday. The Rotary Club of Londonderry is 90 years in charter. INCORE will also celebrate 20 years since its foundation. In addition, we will be marking the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, which sealed our peace and Derry~Londonderry will be celebrating its unique status as the first ever UK City of Culture.

After many turbulent years in our history, we as a people have reclaimed the peace and want to share our experience with the world. To assist us in this endeavour, we need to bring together all of the people who have been significant in our history, including victims, former combatants, voluntary, community, political and other leaders, academics and thinkers.

We are delighted to be working with INCORE and the University of Ulster which have pioneered work in peacebuilding since the 1970s, developing a global network of peacebuilders and building a proud heritage of active involvement in peacemaking.

We also recognise the opportunity to continue to learn from the experiences of other regions of the world and would be thrilled if you could join us so that we can mark and acknowledge the enormity of the contribution that you have made.

Gavin KilleenPresidentRotary Club of LondonderryDistrict 1160

The Rotary Club of Londonderry -Global Peace Forum 2013

It is therefore of paramount importance that we consider the issues and complexities of peace and conflict to share experiences and assess how we can make a real, practical and lasting difference. The University of Ulster’s International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) is delighted to be working in partnership with the Rotary Club of Londonderry’s Global Peace Forum, to be hosted in Derry~Londonderry, which offers just this opportunity to reflect, on a local and global level.

INCORE is uniquely based in a society emerging from conflict, and is a centre of excellence, the premier research institute in conflict transformation on the island of Ireland, and an associated site of the United Nations University.

Since the 1970s, the University of Ulster has pioneered practice-based learning in conflict and developed a global network of peacebuilders. We are deeply proud of the significant contributions we have made to peace locally and also that our staff and alumni (we have been teaching peace and conflict studies for 25 years) have been increasingly called upon to help build peace all over the world. We have ambitious plans to scale the impact of this work by investing in the INCORE Peace Initiative which will be steered by the John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace and also include a Distinguished Global Peace Fellow, a Lesson-Learning Programme and Masters and PhD scholarships.

Given the University of Ulster’s contribution to peace locally and globally and its commitment to scale its impact, along with Rotary’s commitment to reconciliation, learning and peace through service, the Global Peace Forum offers a unique opportunity to embed this natural partnership, adding further energy to the Northern Ireland peace process and global initiatives to make and build lasting peace.

We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Ulster and Derry~Londonderry in the city’s historic year of 2013.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Richard BarnettVice-ChancellorUniversity of Ulster

While Northern Ireland is experiencing an emerging peace, a peace on which all progress depends, it undoubtedly offers a unique example of successful conflict resolution. Much however remains to be done. On a global scale similarly, there has been significant progress, but conflict remains an intractable problem in many parts of the world.

www.ulster.ac.uk

The Rotary Club of Londonderry is a dynamic network of friends actively working on worthwhile community projects that make a difference at home and abroad. We make this difference by contributing our time and experience to make the most of who we are and what we have in the community.

We work in three areas:

1. Serving our community by contributing our time, expertise and money we have raised to make a difference in our chosen areas of: • Reconciliation• Education & Skills• Health• Youth & Children

We aim to invest 3,350 hours of Rotarians’ time and £20,000 ($30,000) annually on this programme of community service.

2. Strengthening our club through cohesive leadership, drive for new members and an integrated training programme.

3. Promoting Rotary, our club and our work to create a better future - locally, regionally and internationally.


FRIDAY 24th May 2013 10:00 – 14:00 Registration for Rotary Global Peace Forum, The Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry

14:00 Greetings from: Gavin Killeen, President of the Rotary Club of Londonderry and a representative of the University of Ulster

14:10 My Vision for Peace – Message by RI President Sakuji Tanaka

14:20 The Rotary Global Peace Forum Initiative – Rotary International Speaker

14:30 Peace in our Time – Distinctions in Defining, Making and Building Peace Professor Brandon Hamber – INCORE at the University of Ulster, joined by two other experts in Peace Studies

15:15 Break and cultural interlude

15:45 What Peace Means to Me – Panel of local and international commentators moderated by guest broadcaster

16:30 Formal business ends for the day

19:30 Fellowship evening by invitation – hosted by the Rotary Club of Londonderry The Everglades Hotel, Londonderry

SATURDAY 25th May 2013 07:00 Breakfast

08:00 – 9:00 Registration for Rotary Global Peace Forum, The Millennium Forum, Londonderry

9:15 Master of Ceremonies, Northern Ireland Broadcaster and Journalist

9:25 Welcome from Sakuji Tanaka – Rotary International President

9:35 Reflection

9:45 Britain and Ireland – From Conflict to Reconciliation - Opening address

10.00 Making the Peace in Northern Ireland - Government perspective from the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and key individuals involved in the peace process

10:30 Panel with all top table speakers moderated by the MC

11.00 Break and cultural interlude

11:30 Making the Peace – an international perspective – speakers from South Africa, Liberia and South Sudan

12.15 Panel moderated by the MC

12.45 Lunch

Rotary Global Peace Forum Derry~Londonderry 24 - 26 May 2013An Invitation from R.I. President Sakuji Tanakadefining the peace ~ making the peace ~ building the peace ~ working the peace

SUNDAY 26th May 2013 08:00 Breakfast at your own

10:00 – 13.00 Master Classes in Peacebuilding Tools – A series of interactive workshops at various city centre venues. Delegates may choose from a list, which will include:

Religion, conflict and reconciliation

Peacebuilding through the economy

Gender and peacebuilding

Human rights and peacebuilding

Youth, children and conflict

The role of ex-combatants in making and building peace

Engaging, acknowledging and supporting victims

Sport, culture, arts and peacebuilding

Dealing with the past

Peacebuilding through storytelling

13:00 Lunch at your own

14:30 Escorted tours of Derry~Londonderry to include: The City Walls – The Two Cathedrals – Free Derry Corner and the Museum of Free Derry – The Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall – Ebrington, the Peace Bridge and the River Foyle

17:00 Bright Brand New Day Culmination event of a six month long journey of those formerly involved in the Northern Ireland conflict Hosted by the Reverend David Latimer, First Derry Presbyterian Church

14:15 Building the Peace Five themes by speakers from an international perspective – the Economy, Human Rights, Gender, Transitional Justice, Youth

15:15 Panel moderated by Professor Brandon Hamber, INCORE at the University of Ulster

15:45 Break and cultural interlude

16:15 Forum Legacy and special awards announcements

16:45 Formal business ends for the day

18:30 Delegates Assemble in Guildhall Square for drinks and procession across The Peace Bridge

19:30 Gala Dinner honouring President Sakuji Tanaka, his wife and special guests The Vital Venue, Ebrington Internationally renowned Guest Speaker


What is Rotary?

Is it the Truth?

Is it Fair to all concerned?

Will it build Goodwill and better Friendships?

Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

SERVICE ABOVE SELF

Each member enjoys business as well as social networking opportunities, whilst giving something back to those less fortunate, learning new skills and having a huge amount of fun!

Rotary runs countless humanitarian projects both locally, nationally and internationally, and also partners with many charities worldwide.

Members organise community projects that address many of today’s most critical issues, such as violence, drug abuse, health, hunger, the environment, and literacy. Rotary clubs determine service projects based on local needs.

They work for and with young people to address challenges facing the youth of today. Interact and Rotaract are also part of the Rotary family, with a similar club structure specifically for young people aged 14-18 and 18-30 respectively.

Members are enthusiastically committed to the drive to wipe out polio from the world. Since Rotary became involved In polio eradication in 1985, generously supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the number of reported polio cases has fallen from 350,000 a year to 1,000; 125 endemic countries have been reduced to just 4 - Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan; and two billion children have been protected from the disease.

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the idea of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;2. High ethical standards in business and profession; the recognition of worthiness of all useful occupation; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society.3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life.4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The Object of Rotary

The Rotary Club of Londonderry was Chartered on 17th July, 1922 and is a club which promotes fellowship and fun, while giving its members opportunities to join with 1.25 million Rotarians around the world in delivering local and international humanitarian service.

The Rotary Club of Londonderry is a dynamic network of friends actively working on worthwhile community projects that make a difference, at home and abroad.

We encourage applications to join our club from men and women engaged in business, professional or community service in the Derry City Council area or Inishowen in Co. Donegal.

The club is a member of a worldwide organisation Rotary International (RI) www.rotary.org and Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI) www.ribi.org.

It operates within RI District 1160 covering 75 clubs across the island of Ireland.

On this site you will learn more about Rotary International, Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland, The Rotary Club of Londonderry and the local, national and international projects which we undertake whilst being guided by the Rotary motto “Service above Self”.

The International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) in Derry~Londonderry, established in 1993, is the premier research institute in conflict transformation on the island of Ireland. INCORE is unique in that it is based in a society emerging from conflict, as well as being a centre of excellence, and an associated site of the United Nations University.

The University of Ulster has pioneered practice-based learning in conflict and developed a global network of peacebuilders since the 1970s and has an international reputation for the quality and relevance of its work.

INCORE’s vision is of a world where divided societies are transformed from conflict to peace.

INCORE has ambitious plans to scale the impact of its peacebuilding work by investing in the INCORE Peace Initiative which will be steered by the John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace and also include a Distinguished Global Peace Fellow, a Lesson-Learning Programme and Masters and PhD scholarships.

The INCORE Peace Initiative will give a new generation of peacebuilders, locally and globally, their best chance of success.www.ulster.ac.uk/incore

What is INCORE?

What does INCORE do?

• Practice-based, policy-focused, international, comparative research focused on the consolidation and deepening of knowledge about peacemaking and peacebuilding processes.;

• Staff are practitioners who advise in conflict situations and facilitate negotiations and dialogues that promote reconciliation;

• Teaching focussed on providing highly relevant and applied skills;

• Offers an acclaimed Masters in Applied Peace and Conflict Studies, now in its 25th year with over 500 graduates;

• International Summer School (in its 14th year) has transferred applied skills to over 1,400 people in over 30 countries;

• Conduct local-global exchanges exporting invaluable lessons from the Northern Ireland experience and importing those from other contexts;

• Runs the internationally acclaimed Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN), the largest online repository of Northern Ireland conflict-related materials in the world.

• Houses ARK, a resource dedicated to making social and political information on Northern Ireland available to the widest possible audience.

It took only several months, andin some cases, a few weeks formost countries to change from aone-party dominant authoritarianregime to a multi-partyparliamentary system. In 1989,the famous wall came down inGermany. Hungary’s Communistsabandoned their monopoly onpower voluntarily, and theconstitution was amended toallow for a multi-party state.On January 29, 1990, the PolishCommunist regime declared itsdissolution after 41 years of itsmonopoly rule.

On March 18th 1990 the peoplesof the former East Germany,voted for the first time in freeand fair elections to the nationalparliament... and it wasn’t only inEurope that change was happening.

A little history of peacemaking

On the 11th of February 1990,Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,walked free from the VictorVerster Prison in Capetown,and four years later on 27thApril 1994, he walked into apolling station in Natal Provinceand voted for the very first timein his life.

From Vietnam to SouthAfrica, Ethiopia to Chile, Albaniato Yemen, from Nicaragua to ElSalvador, military governmentsbegan to negotiate their wayback to the barracks.

By the early 1990s, “global democracy“, a new vision, replacing dictatorships with electoral processes had taken over.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, political evolution in Central and Eastern Europe and in other parts of the world, was beyond imagination. Its dramatic change stunned theworld by its speed and range.

The Arab Spring (literally the Arabic Rebellions or the Arab Revolutions) began on 18 December 2010. On the previous day, a fruit and vegetable seller Mohammed Bouazizi was quietly doing business on the street in his home town of Sidi Bouzid, when a female municipal inspector confiscated his cart and his wares. Adding grave insult to financial injury, she slapped him in the face. In a dramatic protest at the actionsof the official, the 26-year-old doused himself in petrol and struck a match. The resulting conflagration killed Bouazizi, crackled through Tunisia,chasing out its despised PresidentZine el Abidine Ben Ali, and sparked uprisings across the region. Bouazizi wasn’t killedinstantly by the fire he set, butclung on until January 4th 2011.

The rest is history in the making.


THE STEERING COMMITTEE:

THE ROTARY CLUB OF LONDONDERRY

Patrick [email protected]: +44 (0) 78 0836 9544

John [email protected]: +44 (0) 77 7559 3161

Alan [email protected]: +44 (0) 77 3332 2580

Gerard Finnegan [email protected]: +44 (0) 78 0147 3763

James [email protected]: +44 (0) 78 6668 6857

INCORE at the UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

Brandon Hamber [email protected]: +44 (0) 28 7167 5500

Kate [email protected]: +44 (0) 28 7167 5456


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