Rotary Collaboration
In honor of President Carter’s lifetime of Peacebuilding -- a special Podcast with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.
Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick honors President Carter's lifetime of Peacebuilding on the
People-Powered-Planet Podcast hosted by Arthur Kanegis. Kanegis then interviews the school's educators of a new generation of Peace-Builders.
“The Carters were trailblazers in peacebuilding and justice,” said Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of the Carter School. “We are furthering the Carter legacy in conflict resolution through our research and practice. His insight, passion, and love for peace will remain our inspiration in educating future peacemakers.”
“For decades, the Carters tirelessly walked in the shoes of the people they strived to empower, transforming countless lives in the process,” Davidson says. “We teach our students to identify the underlying causes of conflict and equip them with the cutting-edge theory and practical skills to put their knowledge into action, whether that be at the local, national, or global level.”
Ozuem Esiri Onyebolise co-hosted the podcast with the Rotary Districts & Clubs Joint International Online Mega-Meeting Platform -which he founded. Ozuem noted that the program attracted Peacebuilders from 84 Countries and 264 Rotary districts!
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Watch Rotary International President Gordon McInally’s
June 2023 inspiring talk
“Imagine a Future/Create Hope in the World!”
Rotary Mega-Meeting hosted by Rotary Clubs Online International Mega-Meeting, co-hosted by Rotary E-Club of World Peace, Rotary Action Group for Peace, Rotary E-Club of Greater Nigeria and 30 other Rotary Clubs and
5 District Governors as shown in the video of the full mega-meeting.
Led by Ozuem Onyebolise Esiri of the Rotary E club of Greater Nigeria, the organizers attracted over 1000 Rotarians worldwide.
Rotarian Filmmaker Arthur Kanegis, Director of “The World Is My Country” joined in welcoming Gordon McInally and spoke on
"Transcending Borders to Create Peace"
Here is what Former Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta
said about
The World is My Country
during our
People-Powered Planet Podcast:
I was absolutely bowled over by Garry Davis in that movie that you showed -- I loved it! Absolutely. It was great. And I always think when you have such crazy thoughts, people will first laugh at you. And when they laugh at you, you can be sure you are on the right path.
When Gandhi thought that he would make India independent, so many laughed at him.
To me, it ALL starts with a dream, with a vision. From a dream, when you chisel it with a vision, do you come out with a plan? And that is when you spend your entire life just as Garry Davis did. You have a vision, and you want to fulfill that. An amazing story it was!
I think we need many, many, many such people in every part of the world, to be able to make a difference.
How often have these ideas resonated with so many of us. They would seem Utopian but here was a man who believed in his dreams and took it forward. Maybe he was far ahead of his times...but as John Lennon said in Imagine:
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for...
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
To watch our podcast with President Mehta
Arthur Kanegis is a Rotarian Filmmaker, member of district 5330, The Rotary E-Club of World Peace
Let's RUSH toward peace!
Rotarians Unite to Save Humanity!
WE Rotary club calls for Rotary International
to support the Nuclear Ban that has been ratified into international law!
Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta talks about why
this is a crucial issue for Rotary!
If your club would like to support this initiative email: RAGFPsubcommitteeNWE@gmail.com
Dr. Ann Frisch, who speaks in our video RUSH, urged Rotarians to
“take action to follow the vision” of the Rotary Founder Paul Harris.
TPNW and Television Event
We joined the Rotary Action Group for Peace Delegation at the UN meeting of the nations who have ratified the Ban on Nuclear Weapons Treaty!
As Impact Producers on "Television Event" we promoted this film as a powerful tool to help increase the number of ratifiers of the treaty.
See Arthur's movie with Paul Newman on nuclear war: War Without Winners.com