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0:00good afternoon ladies and gentlemen
0:03wrote Aryans guests UN delegates thank
0:09you for coming today
0:10to one of our most popular and largest
0:15events in the rotary world
0:18welcome to the peace and conflict
0:21resolution panel can everybody hear me
0:25okay i'm helen rice ler a rotary
0:29international representative to the
0:31united nations and the panel moderator
0:34we have four panelists today who are
0:37dedicated to the peace effort and
0:39helping to solve conflicts in various
0:43ways hold your questions till the very
0:46end of all the presentations and then
0:49you'll have time to ask the questions
0:51that I'm sure you'll want to ask we're
0:56going to start with our first panelist
1:00Darren Morse originally from Brisbane in
1:03Australia he's a lawyer he graduated as
1:07a rotary world peace fellow from the
1:10University of North Carolina with a
1:13master's degree in political science
1:16focusing on international security
1:19challenges he's now a political adviser
1:23to the UN and he's going to tell you
1:26about his role in the peace effort
1:29Darren thank you very much Helen good
1:39afternoon ladies and gentlemen Rotarians
1:41I apologize I'm not wearing a tie I when
1:45I arrived I took one off to try and sort
1:48of be hip with the young road directors
1:49that were outside they were still better
1:52dressed than me and now I just look a
1:54little slovenly for you so I'll
1:56apologize but let's forget that inbox on
1:58I also should say by way of disclaimer I
2:03am working for the UN but I represent
2:06here today myself and the views are my
2:09own as opposed to those of the UN just
2:12in case my boss
2:13who's watching on the webcast or the
2:15live feed let's just keep that between
2:17us ladies and gentlemen by way of brief
2:20introduction I guess to build on what
2:22Helen said Helen introduced I graduated
2:24from law school in 1998 and from the
2:27University of North Carolina in the
2:28University of Queensland again in 2004
2:31along the way I've worked in the courts
2:33have worked in can of terrorism in
2:35ending any corruption
2:36I was a teacher for four years round
2:38workshops in prison for two years and
2:40was arrested in the Ukraine once in that
2:43time I've learned that kids are honest
2:46devious and hilarious I have about the
2:48same prison currency value as
2:50one-and-a-half packets of Lucky Strikes
2:52and the Ukrainian police have no sense
2:54of humor about their hats I have worked
2:58on issues in that time both profane and
3:01profound I've said in the sacred spirit
3:03heart in the north of Canada listening
3:05to First Nations elders describe a
3:07community that went from 98 percent
3:09alcoholism and the edge of genuine
3:11extinction to a to sobriety and success
3:13within a generation and I've sat in a
3:15meeting with the dungeon master
3:16imploring me to regulate the bondage
3:18industry and had a strip club owner and
3:20appoint me as his lawyer because he felt
3:22and I quote we had a connection I don't
3:26know where he got that from more
3:28recently I was the chief of staff to two
3:31attorneys general in Queensland
3:32Australia to genuinely decent men who
3:35under my sage stewardship both
3:36successfully lost their seats and I
3:39worked on policing in his team or police
3:41who I'd like to think again with my
3:43assistants shot almost no one seriously
3:45in the 2012 elections and even though in
3:482012 I was accused of firing Islamabad's
3:52justice minister by a drank drunk
3:54Pakistani spy the following year I
3:56returned to South Asia providing advice
3:58and analysis on Afghan politics as part
4:00of the UN peacekeeping mission providing
4:03advice and analysis on politics in much
4:05the same way that a Jack Russell Terrier
4:07provides advice and analysis to a
4:08burglar at high volume and mostly in
4:12terror and now after three years I'm now
4:16working in conflict and post-conflict
4:17resolution or working in those
4:19environments I've come to roost in New
4:21York in Hell's Kitchen which after my
4:23mother thought that Afghanistan was
4:25terrible she decided that that was in
4:26even more danger
4:27place there can be little doubt I think
4:31that the part that I've taken albeit one
4:33with ventures down roads both paved and
4:36unpaved well tread well trodden and not
4:38has been assisted greatly I should say
4:40from the outset and guided by the work
4:43of rotary the rotary motto itself
4:45Service Above Self remains in my view a
4:49core principle of how I've sought to
4:50pursue pursue my professional life
4:53though I must confess after taking that
4:55job in Afghanistan I think mum would
4:58have preferred something more along the
4:59lines of take current quasi Infernus
5:01which would be the Latin translation of
5:03run like hell but anyway we survived
5:04it's ok
5:06I do believe in service in applying our
5:09gifts to the betterment of the community
5:10and not just to ourselves I believe in
5:12equality that the treatment we receive
5:14and the rights we fight for in life
5:16should not be conditional upon our
5:17gender our religion our race our well
5:19through our sexual preference and I
5:21believe in optimism and in opportunity
5:23that it's possible that even during the
5:25darkest and most dangerous terrible in
5:27stressful times that it's possible to
5:29make tomorrow better than today and if
5:32ever there was a place in modern history
5:33that has required a belief in service a
5:35belief in equality and that is required
5:37optimism and a certain cautious
5:39recklessness and a desire to make
5:41tomorrow better than today then that
5:42would surely be Afghanistan and if ever
5:45there was an organization that met that
5:48sense of service then for me it
5:50certainly is the United Nations I am I
5:52am unashamedly an idealist even if the
5:57grinding machinery of an organization
5:59the size and scope of the UN can try to
6:01pulp that out of one and I firmly
6:03believe that the United Nations is the
6:05first last and best hope for global
6:08peace it's worth considering for a
6:10moment in in this context what the
6:14magnitude of the task that the United
6:16Nations is attempting to achieve in the
6:18area of peacekeeping peace building and
6:20peacemaking and the mechanism that the
6:23UN has been given to achieve it between
6:262007 and 2014 there has been a nearly
6:29300% increase in the number of active
6:32civil wars across the globe 60 million
6:35people are now either refugees or
6:37internally displaced persons and in 2015
6:41alone the global humanitarian call for
6:43need was in the area of 200 billion dots
6:46re 20 billion dollars in assistance that
6:49is quite simply no small issue the UN in
6:53that context is an organization of 193
6:55member states that's 15 specialized
6:57agencies six principal organs and six
6:59official languages in response to Peace
7:02and Conflict needs the UN has 16 current
7:06peacekeeping operations and 11 peace and
7:08peacebuilding missions across the globe
7:10with respect to peacekeeping the budget
7:13for the UN is just over 8 billion
7:15dollars if a billion dollars sounds like
7:17a lot of paper piece then to put that
7:20significant sounding figure into context
7:22it's worth noting that the citizens of
7:24US and Europe spend about 12 billion
7:26dollars annually on perfume McDonald's
7:29has an annual operating budget of 19 and
7:31a half billion dollars and Americans
7:33spend approximately sixty billion
7:35dollars a year on their pets if trans
7:38fats perfumes and pugs are an unfair
7:41comparison then consider that while the
7:43world is spending about eight billion
7:45dollars on peacekeeping through the UN
7:47last year it racked up 1767 billion
7:52dollars in global military expenditure
7:54that basically equates to two hundred
7:57and forty two dollars per person across
7:59the world spent on the military and just
8:01over one dollar spent on peacekeeping
8:03for that one dollar what do we get well
8:06for the UN that means about 125 thousand
8:10troops police and civilians working
8:12across seven million square kilometers
8:13of territory assisting about 125 million
8:17people more broadly in the context un
8:20provides food to 90 million people in 80
8:22countries it vaccinates 58 percent of
8:25the world's children saving 303 million
8:27lives per year
8:28it assists 40 million refugees in
8:30persons fleeing war a number which
8:32unfortunately is increasing it fights
8:34poverty and improves health and
8:36well-being for 420 million rural poor it
8:39mobilized 222 billion dollars I'm not
8:43good with numbers
8:43it mobilized 22 billion dollars in
8:45humanitarian aid to help people affected
8:47by emergencies currently assists 67
8:50countries a year with their elections
8:52and saves and has saved the lives
8:55thirty million women a year through
8:56improved maternal health
8:58those are some pretty good results and
9:00it does this I should note as a member
9:03state organization an organization built
9:05on the necessity for cooperation for
9:08agreement and for better and worse
9:10compromise in many ways there really is
9:14no UN it's just a clubhouse where 193
9:18member states have agreed to turn up and
9:20agreed to meet and if they don't want to
9:22meet then they don't meet and if they
9:23don't want to agree then again for
9:25better and for worse they simply don't
9:27agree the amazing thing is and the thing
9:29that it is difficult though all easy I
9:31should say to forget sometimes when we
9:33focus on some of the perceived failures
9:35is that buying a lot by and large the UN
9:39does mean that people meet and they do
9:41meet and they meet peacefully they
9:43decide and sometimes it's slow but they
9:45do decide and above all as above the
9:47results attest to the UN does act my
9:51part in all of this is pretty small but
9:55so it goes I guess for everybody working
9:57in this kind of field I work on
10:00Afghanistan fund now in the United
10:02Nations in New York as a political
10:04adviser and I'll just take a quick
10:07second then to look at the scope of
10:08Afghanistan and the scope of the issue
10:10there Afghanistan is a landlocked
10:12country of about thirty four million
10:14people currently fighting a war against
10:16it would appear everybody including
10:18themselves including the most powerful
10:21war machine in history at one point or
10:22another and still nobody is able to
10:24declare definitive victory the nation
10:27that sat at the crossroads of
10:28civilization for thousands of years a
10:30trading hub a gateway between South and
10:32Central Asia between East and what's
10:34known as the Middle East it has been the
10:36subject to invasion and attempted
10:38colonial subjugation of religious fusion
10:40and of religious conflict and it's
10:42become home to violent extremism as well
10:44as fighting a bloody domestic conflict
10:46against violent extremism and to be
10:49frank it's in a neighborhood that some
10:51might say is not exactly at times a
10:53galaxy of stars you have Tajikistan
10:55which is recovering from seven years of
10:57civil war
10:57Turkmenistan which according to the
10:59World Press Freedom Index of 2012 was
11:02only ranked above North Korea in terms
11:04of the worst Press Freedom and that's
11:06not a great metric to be just feeding
11:07the North Koreans
11:08with all due respect to them and
11:10Pakistan where the intelligence service
11:13has allegedly been previously
11:15simultaneously fighting and funding the
11:17Taliban with equal fervor and that's
11:20just to name three that's a challenging
11:22environment for any country to be in
11:23it's a challenging environment for
11:25Afghanistan it's a country where those
11:28two official languages dari in patch two
11:30- unofficial languages who's back in
11:32Turkmen and about thirty other languages
11:34so it's obviously very lucky that they
11:35sent me there at all inconspicuous white
11:37guy who can't grow sideburns who speaks
11:40moderately good English very poor
11:42Japanese and a little bit of Portuguese
11:45it's a devoutly Muslim country so again
11:48I'm not exactly sure how I was going to
11:50fit in but after all I was born a
11:51Methodist raised uniting school Anglican
11:53Merida Catholic and I was asked by a
11:54former employee to go to a strip club
11:56with an atheist and a Buddhist nun that
12:00actually is a true story
12:01and it's a country where politics is a
12:05full-time is a full-contact sport but I
12:08was ready I said to myself I'm ready
12:09I've worked in Australian politics it's
12:11okay it's just a different tune but as
12:14the old saying goes if the difference
12:15between kinky and perverted is the
12:17difference between using the feather and
12:19using the whole chicken then then for
12:23Australian politics even at their most
12:25kinky I can barely hold a candle to the
12:27full chicken freak out that is Afghan
12:29politics in full flies friends family
12:35family and friends have often said that
12:38it's hopeless to try and provide our
12:40political advice to a country like
12:42Afghanistan where it's comprised it
12:44would appear of local warlords opium
12:46bandits and Islamic extremists and that
12:50nothing has worked and nothing will ever
12:51work and yes it's absolutely difficult
12:54but and and yes there have been problems
12:57this is a country where you've had war
12:59for the better part of the last 30 years
13:00most recently but as a consequence it's
13:02likely to take another 30 years for
13:05peace to break out and that process is
13:07just underway and while the last decade
13:09has certainly seen spectacular
13:10spectacular expenditure and to an extent
13:14spectacular wasted expenditure in the
13:17country the US alone has spent an
13:18estimated 660 million dollars since 2002
13:22the news I don't think is all doom and
13:24gloom and the United Nations has been at
13:26the very heart of that in 2001 over a
13:29third of the population a give or take
13:31about six million men women and children
13:33had fled the country that had devolved
13:35into civil war and the Taliban took over
13:37and around one in ten at that time had
13:40been killed there was virtually no
13:42health care the education system was
13:43stalled and services didn't function
13:45Kabul was an eerie ghost town and
13:46al-qaeda was having a gay old time by
13:492014 just over a decade later nearly 5
13:53million of those refugees have returned
13:54to Afghanistan and at no personal
13:56personal risk and to just pick out a few
13:58other figures to highlight the seismic
14:00changes that the country has undergone
14:01there are nearly twice the number of
14:03doctors per capita maternal mortality
14:05has been reduced by about 80% child
14:07mortality mortality has been reduced by
14:1060 percent telephone users have
14:12increased to increased and therefore
14:13communication by around 9 to around 19
14:17million people in 2001 there are about 1
14:19million mostly boys impact primarily
14:22boys in primary school education now
14:24there are 10 million boys and girls in
14:26schools across the country and finally
14:28in what is probably the most stunning
14:29shift in that time the average life
14:31expectancy in Afghanistan has increased
14:3318 years from 40 to or about 42 in 2001
14:38to around 63 now that is a massive shift
14:41in a very small period of time that is a
14:44laudable and concrete achievement for
14:46both the Afghan people for the United
14:47Nations and for the community as whole
14:49and I know rotary has certainly been a
14:51part of that through their polio pass
14:52program - known just one program which
14:55is really doing fantastic work in a
14:56number of areas in Afghanistan what
15:00saddens me most about the state of the
15:01world at the moment and I know Helens
15:03looking at me because she's probably
15:04going to tell me to shut it down very
15:07quickly I what saddens me most about the
15:11state of politics and I think what draws
15:12me to the work they do at the moment is
15:15how small we want to be how small
15:18countries such as Australia such as the
15:20u.s. such as parts of Europe and are
15:22increasingly wanting to be less aid
15:23funding fear of refugee terror of gay
15:26marriage
15:26a viewpoint of the world that would
15:27rather exclude than embrace and at the
15:31time when many of these countries of the
15:32economic envy of the world when the
15:35quality of
15:35life is nearly unparalleled at any other
15:37time as it has been on the planet we
15:39appear to be shrinking away in fear
15:41trying to be less relevant trying to be
15:42less compassionate trying to even be
15:45less leaders in short we're obsessed
15:48with the differences that divide us as
15:49opposed to those things that bring us
15:51together and I will admit that there are
15:54genuine terrors in the world there are
15:55systems of belief that I firmly believe
15:58we should reject and oppose mightily and
15:59isis/isil - whatever you want to be
16:01called I'm looking right at you but we
16:04certainly can't let that justifiable
16:06concern about the small very small
16:08aspect of humanity diminish our desire
16:11to join embrace and explore explore the
16:15rest of humanity in conclusion that
16:17reminds me and I'll just finish with
16:19this
16:19I promise I'll finish Ellen of a story
16:22by emo Philips about when he was walking
16:24across a bridge and he met a man who was
16:26about to jump off he said I was walking
16:28Russell bridge one day and I saw a man
16:29who was standing on the edge in Ajmer to
16:30jump off the edge of the bridge and I
16:31ran over and I said stop don't do it and
16:34the man said well why shouldn't I and he
16:35said well look you've got so much to
16:36live for he said likewise what I said
16:38are you religious or atheist and he said
16:41I'm religious and you know I said on me
16:44too and he said are you Christian or
16:46Buddhists and the man said Christian he
16:48said me too sitting a Catholic or
16:50Protestant he said Protestant me too you
16:53Episcopalian or Baptist he said Baptist
16:56he said me too are you Baptist Church of
16:59God a Baptist Church of the Lord said
17:01Baptist Church of God said me too
17:04are you original Baptist Church of God
17:06he reformed about this church of God he
17:09said look I'm reformed about this Church
17:10of God me too
17:12so do you Reformed Baptist Church of God
17:14Reformation of 1879 you reformed Baptist
17:17Church of God Reformation in 1915 he
17:19said Reformed Baptist Church of God
17:21Reformation of 19 of 1915 I said die
17:25heretics come and I pushed him off
17:30[Applause]
17:32ladies and gentlemen what we need to do
17:34is focus on the things that draw us
17:36together peace and Conflict is a massive
17:38challenge rotary is doing sensational
17:40work and it is partnering with the UN my
17:42simple message today would be to
17:43continue that partnership embrace the
17:45differences explore the differences and
17:47bridge those gaps thank you very much
18:00I
18:11ladies and gentlemen if you had any
18:13doubt that our peace fellow scholarships
18:17were not working I'm sure you have
18:20changed your mind
18:22Thank You Darren our next speaker is
18:26caller Lineback Carla was a peace fellow
18:32at the International Christian
18:34University in Japan and received a
18:37master's degree in Peace Studies she is
18:40a member of Brattleboro Rotary Club in
18:42Vermont and has had twenty years of
18:45experience working with youth on
18:47programs focusing on cross-cultural
18:51understanding and conflict resolution
18:53and now you're in for another
18:56interesting experience
18:57Carla Thank You Helen that's gonna be a
19:04tough act to follow and I can promise
19:06you it's mine is not nearly as humorless
19:09humorous I'd like to start talking a
19:12little bit about me to help put things
19:15into context I was born in Vermont a
19:18place that is not considered very
19:21multicultural to say the least my mother
19:25is from Bolivia and my father was
19:27Italian American and I was raised
19:29speaking both Spanish and English at
19:31home in rural Vermont I spent 10 of my
19:35childhood summers in Mexico while my
19:37parents were running programs there and
19:39I studied my junior year I spent in
19:41Italy I graduated Smith with a degree in
19:44Italian language and literature because
19:46that surely was going to prepare me for
19:48a great career I spent three years in
19:52Japan teaching English and I traveled a
19:56little bit teaching English in different
19:57countries including Venezuela my entire
20:00career has been in education whether it
20:02was teaching languages or creating
20:04cross-cultural understanding I led
20:07groups of high school students on
20:08homestay based summer abroad programs
20:10some of you might recognize the name the
20:12experiment and international living as I
20:15said I taught English overseas I've
20:17always worked for creating friendships
20:19across cultures so I think that's not
20:21unusual or unfamiliar for the Rotarians
20:24here creating peaceful understanding
20:28when I was working for the experiment it
20:30was a job I loved and I decided that I
20:33wanted to do I want to have more impact
20:36I could have continued with the
20:38experiment forever it was it was a job I
20:42felt had an impact with students it was
20:46making a difference but I wanted
20:49something a little bit more and that's
20:50when I found the rotary World Peace
20:51fellow program and I have to say this
20:54thank you all through the generosity of
20:56the Rotarian from the Rotary Foundation
20:57I went back to Japan and I received the
21:00two-year master's degree in Peace
21:02Studies part of my studies included a
21:04month in the Middle East in the month in
21:06the divided capital city of Nicosia and
21:10Cyprus I'm sorry too two different
21:13separate months once in the Middle East
21:14Syria Jordan in Israel and then another
21:17month in Cyprus the highlight of my
21:20rotary peace fellow program I think was
21:22the network that I entered into
21:24colleagues like Darren working with the
21:27UN just to give you a snapshot my cohort
21:31I had a classmate who career is in
21:35preventing human trafficking another
21:38whose interest was working with child
21:39soldiers one now is in the Foreign
21:41Service another classmate is now is
21:43still in Japan one's a teacher professor
21:46one pursued a PhD in sustainable
21:48agriculture you get the idea we come
21:51from all different backgrounds and we're
21:52all tackling the same problem from
21:55different points of view I think that's
21:59really the beauty of the program I came
22:02back to the US and I returned to Vermont
22:04which was always my plan Vermont is home
22:06to me my professional life I'm an
22:09associate dean for academic affairs for
22:11the school for international training
22:12it's a it's the academic arm of world
22:15learning it's an organization that
22:17focuses on education development and
22:18exchange programs around the world
22:21locally and personally I'm currently the
22:24president of a newly merged organization
22:27that works with homelessness and hunger
22:29in southern Vermont and I was looking at
22:31the sustainable development goals here
22:33in the back of the program and
22:34number one no poverty number two zero
22:36hunger that's what I'm working towards
22:40my life has been very much about
22:42cross-cultural understanding night I
22:44realized I was missing and lacking that
22:47international perspective in my
22:48day-to-day life I was able to work one
22:51summer with a Mexican program working
22:54with Mexican use on an anti-violence
22:57developing anti-violence project for
23:00high school students that got the wheels
23:03turning in my head and through the
23:05rotary network I met up with another
23:07peace fellow connected with Patricia
23:09saved Schafer in North Carolina and with
23:12the support of some Rotarians
23:13we created new gen peace builders I did
23:17put out a few brochures I have more but
23:19this will tell you all about it new gen
23:22peace builders what is it well a wise
23:26man Mohammed Gandhi said if we are to
23:28teach real peace in the world we will
23:30have to begin with the children and
23:32that's what we believe when you ask
23:34young kids most say they learn about war
23:37in conflict but they never study peace
23:39and that's what we wanted to do we
23:41wanted to get young people talking about
23:43peace new gen peace builders has a
23:46mission to make learning to be a peace
23:48builder a rite of passage for everyone
23:50we launched in 2013 and it takes the
23:54content and the best practices of peace
23:56education programs typically available
23:58to master's degree candidates and we
24:00redesigned the experience for high
24:02school students we treat these young
24:04people as 21st century peace builders we
24:07combine theory and practice we've taken
24:10the best of our experiences as Peace
24:12fellows and the experiences we've had
24:14with Rotarians and put them into
24:16practice how many wrote Aryans have been
24:19involved in peace projects or projects
24:20around the world that improve a
24:22situation that's what we're working with
24:25with these high school students we've
24:27integrated the program with Rotarian
24:30mentors to help these students put
24:32together a peace project it's a program
24:36that is endorsed by the road reaction
24:38group for peace and we also see it as a
24:40funnel to create to plant the seed for
24:42these high school students to think
24:44about the rotary World Peace fellow
24:46program
24:46funneled towards a program that you
24:48already put together just to give you an
24:54example of some of the projects that the
24:56students work on once group of students
24:59in North Carolina learned about the
25:01concept of urban food deserts just out
25:04of curiosity how many of you here are
25:06familiar with the concept of an urban
25:08food desert okay whew well it's
25:12essentially vast areas where it's almost
25:14impossible to find and buy the fresh
25:15produce and this is here in the United
25:17States these students went to a part of
25:21Charlotte they never would have
25:22otherwise gone you know in the normal
25:24lives and they met and they spoke with
25:26low-income single mothers who are
25:28affected by the fact that they can't get
25:29their hands on fresh produce the
25:31students came up with a plan and
25:33recruited students other students to
25:35volunteer they convinced the school to
25:38rehabilitate a campus greenhouse to
25:40cultivate seedlings to distribute to
25:42these families for a grow your own
25:44product project making fresh produce
25:48available to low-income families makes a
25:50lot of difference they realize the
25:53students you know for the hope for the
25:55students it's about learning how one
25:57little thing can impact the big scenario
25:59they realized that fresh produce leads
26:03to healthier families it means that
26:04school kids miss school less often it
26:06means that parents don't miss work as
26:08often it brings a little more stability
26:10to their homes it means that they might
26:12be able to actually pay rent and get
26:16ahead on rent and move to a larger
26:18apartment I mean if there's a there's a
26:20domino effect it's an example of
26:23positive peace one of the concepts that
26:25we reintroduce our high school students
26:26to new gen peacebuilders has been going
26:30strong in Charlotte thanks to startup
26:32grants from Rotary clubs in the area
26:34wrote Ariens and peace and a peaceful
26:37are currently now in Bolivia delivering
26:39three concurrent programs we're working
26:42on expanding the program in Mexico
26:44Thailand Hong Kong Ghana and South Sudan
26:47in the u.s. we continue to offer the
26:50program in Charlotte and working on
26:53expanding in Ohio in California and
26:55we've recently just got interested from
26:57Florida I'm in Vermont and I'm Mike
27:00Allen just going to pitch it here my
27:02calendars open I'm excited to offer the
27:04program in your area if you'd like to
27:05learn more there their brochures and I'm
27:08happy to talk to you after this just to
27:11finish a quote from what from one of the
27:13participants just because we're young it
27:16doesn't mean we can't do things to
27:18encourage peace it doesn't mean we can't
27:20make a difference thank you
27:32is it such meaningful work as a Rotarian
27:35and a graduate piece cello and doesn't
27:38someone like Karla give you hope for the
27:41next generation see these are the things
27:43that balance all vices and all the other
27:46stuff
27:47thank you so much Karla and now you're
27:50in for another treat we have two runner
27:53actors one is a lawyer one is a doctor
27:57one comes from Greece one comes from
28:00Serbia and they're going to tell you
28:03about how they contribute to the peace
28:07efforts Mina Mina vais avec and Junaid
28:16Becca are both members of Rotaract clubs
28:19Mina in Belgrade Serbia and na in
28:24northern Greece Mina is a medical doctor
28:27specializing in radiology while de nape
28:30is a lawyer mediator and arbitrator they
28:34both have participated in Model UN
28:37conferences recently in the in Belgrade
28:41Serbia was it in Belgrade
28:44yes Mina and de neige will show you what
28:48this has to do with peace and they're
28:51going to do it together they have a
28:53PowerPoint thank you
29:02dear fellow Rotarians and rutter actors
29:05it is my great pleasure and honor to be
29:07here today with my lovely
29:09secretary-general at this special day
29:12and to tell you about our project Rutter
29:15a global Model United Nations that is so
29:18important to us that we put our hearts
29:21and souls into it at the beginning let
29:24me introduce myself my name is Mina
29:26vizag and I come from Belgrade Serbia I
29:29am a medical doctor I work at the
29:31National cancer & Research Centre in
29:34Belgrade over seven last years I have
29:37been a member of Rotaract Club Belgrade
29:40the oldest Club in our district I served
29:45as a
29:45club president and the district retract
29:47representative and I was a project
29:49manager of Roger global Model United
29:52Nations third edition that was held this
29:55August in Belgrade but at the beginning
29:59I'm a believer I believe in medicine and
30:03I believe that my work can make a
30:05difference I believe in volunteering
30:08work I believe that small changes can
30:11move mountains and the Trobe will be a
30:14better place if all of us would do
30:16something I believe in constant
30:19education and self-improvement as a
30:22constant need of human being I believe
30:26that young people should have a voice
30:28that is loud enough to be heard and the
30:32last but not the least
30:34I believe in Rotaract Global Model
30:36United Nations as a platform for youth
30:38diplomacy and decision-making how many
30:42of you here are familiar with the
30:44concept of Model United Nations oh nice
30:51so I will be brief then why is this so
30:55special to us dr. global model United
30:58Nation is a youth conference where
31:00participants from different countries
31:02take role and delegates like the real UN
31:05diplomats and following the historical
31:08structure of United Nations debate
31:10informal sessions about issues that are
31:14political social and economic that are
31:17current and right the resolutions at the
31:20end of the conference it is a great
31:22opportunity to learn how to influence
31:24decision making on international level
31:27this conference is special because it is
31:30organized each year from I just realize
31:34we have a PowerPoint yeah yeah it will
31:38be clicking yes I'm clicking ok thank
31:43you so this conference takes place each
31:48year in a different country and it's
31:50organized by a different Rotaract Club
31:53the first edition was held in Romania
31:56three years ago the
31:58condition was in London last year and my
32:02club
32:02and me had the honour to do the third
32:04edition this August in Belgrade as you
32:08can see we have more than 70
32:10participants from 20 countries 25
32:13nationalities and our participants came
32:16from really various range of countries
32:18from Colombia to Japan and Australia and
32:22by modeling UN we encouraged young
32:25people in their knowledge in
32:28international affairs in research in
32:31understanding of parliamentary procedure
32:33in analytic analytical reasoning in
32:37problem-solving negotiation oral and
32:40written presentation of a of ideas and
32:45also the professionalism by working
32:48together as a team we are trying to
32:51learn from the past and present and
32:53strive to prepare youth for the future
32:56and empower them to be more involved in
32:58decision-making our mission is to
33:01promote encourage awareness
33:03understanding tolerance peace and
33:06acceptance of world people cultural
33:10beliefs and attitudes I would like to
33:14share with you one of the most emotional
33:17moments during the conference and
33:19believe me since this was my first time
33:21en experience I had a lot of them last
33:25five years I've have been driving to the
33:28same streets of Belgrade every morning
33:30from my work from my house to my work
33:34but around this spring something began
33:37to change and believe me I'm not a
33:40morning person so if I notice it was a
33:42big change you could see a lot of people
33:46in public squares and public parks
33:49especially around the train stations and
33:52the bus stations those people were
33:55sitting or sleeping on the ground and
33:58during all day even some of them had
34:02small children with them those were the
34:05refugees from Syria Syria Afghanistan
34:08Iraq and it is estimated that from the
34:11beginning
34:12of the refugee crisis more than 1
34:15million people has passed through Serbia
34:19unfortunately this wasn't the first time
34:21for me to see a huge number of refugees
34:25since I come from Serbia Allan who
34:28struggled with war 20 years ago but
34:32still I was really struck with the level
34:35of the destruction this refugee crisis
34:38brought with it around the same time me
34:42and my cloud was working really hard on
34:44planning this Model UN and we decided
34:47when one of the topics should be
34:49definitely about the refugee crisis
34:52so the 26 of August has arrived our
34:56lovely participants from many countries
34:57arrived we had a beautiful gala dinner
35:01they were all fancy and the conference
35:05take off but at the moment when we
35:09decided to make this conference
35:11completely different from all other
35:13Model United Nations we decided to take
35:17our participants to that same Park where
35:20the refugees have been spending their
35:22days and I can't even describe how a
35:27person from Germany or from United
35:30Kingdom looked and probably filled when
35:35saw this scared hungry tired huge crowds
35:41of people and felt their desperation you
35:46can agree that it is completely
35:48different to see something like that on
35:50the TV and to feel it in person that was
35:54a crucial moment for our conference
35:56because our participants felt that
35:59desperation and they felt like they have
36:03to make a change that it is up to them
36:06there were no more politicians and no
36:09more some other people making difference
36:11they were the people who should make a
36:14difference another thing that was really
36:17important for those beautiful
36:19resolutions those bright minds right was
36:22that we were convinced them that
36:25resolutions are going to be heard and
36:29presented after the conference and not
36:31leave as a letter on a paper that was
36:38the moment when rotor actors from 25
36:41countries made a difference and made a
36:45huge effort to make peace I think we
36:49should all learn from this because it's
36:51same in the real life you have the voice
36:53a smart one and a strong one but it is
36:57not heard oftenly
36:58peace should be upon young people and
37:01I'm sure that young people would engage
37:04more in decision making process if they
37:07knew somebody is going to listen instead
37:11saying oh what do you know about that
37:13topic or serious question you're too
37:16young for that so I'm asking you now I'm
37:22trying to beg that you look around
37:25yourself and listen to young people
37:28around you you would be really surprised
37:32what they have to tell you and another
37:36thing please help us spread the world
37:38about our global Model United Nations
37:40and make this a huge and a global
37:43initiative because it can make a
37:46difference and it is a life-changing
37:48experience thank you
37:51[Applause]
38:01in to our young people in rotary we've
38:06started to really take them seriously
38:08and we have to continue to do that will
38:11you continue the presentation Anthony
38:13thank you very much
38:15d Rotarians tiro tractus my name is
38:19Denis Beckham I am from Greece as he
38:22said I am a lawyer and a mediator
38:26president of the Rotary Club I disturbed
38:29alien to Saloniki Greece and I was the
38:32secretary-general of this year's
38:34Rotaract global Model United Nations now
38:38I'm going to continue where Nina left
38:41off by sharing a personal experience I
38:46had when I was a little girl and I had
38:51just started realizing what is going on
38:54around me I was shocked it was about 15
38:59years ago when I understood there was a
39:02reality outside my house but I could not
39:05understand I could not understand why
39:08walls took place I could not understand
39:10why people were starving to death and I
39:14actually remember going to my parents
39:16and telling them that that there's a
39:18crazy reality going on that I cannot
39:21control and I do not know what to do
39:23about it it's like I'm at the theater
39:26which I always loved and I'm watching
39:28this crazy show and I can just hope for
39:31happy ending without being able to do
39:33anything and I really remember that
39:38moment when my dad told me okay let's
39:41say you're at the theater what do you do
39:44when you're at the theater
39:45I say you buy tickets you watch the show
39:48and you hope for your happy ending
39:51probably he said well it depends on
39:55where you're standing
39:57if you're downstage yes you can just
40:01watch the show but you can always choose
40:03to go app stage and you can act and just
40:06make the ending you're wishing
40:09okay and this is the moment where I
40:11decided I wanted to become a road
40:15tractor this is a moment where I decided
40:17I should start getting involved with the
40:20United Nations and to be a lawyer for
40:22that matter to help people so basically
40:27I'm going to tell you a bit about MDN as
40:30well and why this particular mu n is
40:33different from any other I have
40:35participated in as Mina said an M UN and
40:39I'm not going to be very technical about
40:42it is a simulation of the United Nations
40:45proceedings okay most of you know that
40:48and I saw your hand so maybe you have
40:51participated already but how does it
40:53help you how does it contribute to
40:57preserving peace well first of all it is
41:01very very challenging because you have
41:03to forget your personal beliefs and you
41:06have to represent another country you
41:09have to discuss very crucial issues of
41:11international community by basically
41:14being someone else that means you have
41:16to put yourself in someone else's shoes
41:19understand their policy line and why
41:22they have adopted it and just go with it
41:25this is very very difficult but if you
41:29start at a young age you really
41:32understand how the world works and you
41:35understand that you have to focus on
41:39your similarities and not your
41:41differences in order to resolve very
41:43crucial issues now this is what an M UN
41:46is about why is roar as global and you
41:50are indifferent well first of all it has
41:52been underlined a lot of science today
41:55that rotary and the United Nations have
41:59a very close link actually rotary today
42:02holds the highest consultative position
42:06at the United Nations so it was more
42:09than obvious that there should be a
42:10water a global model United Nations and
42:13it is very very different when Rotaract
42:16is from so many countries come together
42:19sharing their Rotarian values
42:22and trying to make peace in the world
42:25most importantly we really try to make
42:28this conference real as Nina said we
42:31tried to make them realize the situation
42:34by actually taking them to places where
42:36they can see the refugees for instance
42:38and not just discuss the refugee crisis
42:40on a theoretical level they felt their
42:43responsibility upon them and now that is
42:47crucial I'm just going to share because
42:49I promised every delegate some of the
42:52points of the refugee crisis resolution
42:54for instance they actually I'm talking
42:57about eighteen year old people there
43:01they actually suggested an emergency
43:04relocation plan from host countries and
43:08countries of transit like Greece Hungary
43:11and Italy to other EU Member States and
43:14the distribution shall be determined
43:16using objective and quantifiable
43:18criteria including population and
43:21employment rates and so on some other
43:23measures took into consideration the
43:26fact that okay refugee rights we know
43:30them and we should respect them always
43:32but they took as a given the fact that
43:35refugees cross the borders which they it
43:39hadn't been done before for instance in
43:41Greece my country the borders are
43:44impossible to control there it's
43:47practically impossible so the delegates
43:49took is are given that the refugees
43:51actually passed through the borders and
43:53then there has an integration plan in a
43:56short-term and a long-term basis like a
43:59year of mandatory induction to the new
44:01countries of residence which included
44:03language which included culture and so
44:05on so the point is why did they try so
44:09hard why did I try so hard and it is me
44:13standing here today and not anyone else
44:16it's not because I'm better than any
44:17other young person any other young role
44:19tractor is because someone someday
44:23somewhere helped me believe that I could
44:27make a change just me whether that was
44:31my teacher or my parents someone
44:34somewhere made
44:35that I can make a change but very small
44:39changes can change the world and this is
44:42what these rotar actors did when we told
44:45them that okay your voices will be heard
44:48your voices will reach the United
44:50Nations today they felt the
44:52responsibility upon them and that is
44:55when they presented incredible results
44:58incredible resolutions which means that
45:01to you
45:02Rotarians do you a bit older people than
45:06us
45:07you have to encourage young people you
45:11have to make them believe that they have
45:12a voice is very loud one but they can
45:15change the world they really can from a
45:18small city somewhere in Greece starting
45:21with their first and UN so many years
45:23later Here I am this could be any of you
45:26other rotaractors tomorrow and how do we
45:30make peace I assure you that all the
45:33participants is we have one future
45:36leader from that team in Belgrade or the
45:39next team the next ten UN no participant
45:42will ever start a war because they
45:46learned otherwise they learned how to
45:48work together and how to resolve their
45:50issues differently this is how you make
45:52peace so I would like to encourage you
45:55all to get involved to spread the word
45:58and remember that we all can be a gift
46:02to the world by every by making small
46:06changes to just speaking out peer today
46:10at the United Nations we all can do it
46:12and it is a great way to contribute to
46:16making peace they wrote for a global
46:18Model United Nations I assure you
46:20thank
46:31Thank You Lina and today I'm sure we're
46:34all very very proud of our peace Fellows
46:38of our rotaractors
46:39and you said something that I think
46:42everyone should really pay attention to
46:44look around you and if there are young
46:47people around you give them hope and
46:52show them how they can join us I did
46:55that when I spoke in Holland recently I
46:57was a keynote speaker at a Model UN
47:01conference with University students from
47:03all different countries and I was very
47:05impressed by one young man who was the
47:08chair of the Security Council he came
47:10from Israel and I kept in touch with him
47:13he just moved into New York he's getting
47:15married next week and he's sitting right
47:17over there because he's interested in
47:20finding out about rotary stand-up Quebec
47:22and that's how you do it now I'm going
47:31to take one question from a few people I
47:34wish we could go on longer this has been
47:36a grind to say this has been a great
47:37panel I'm very proud of all of you and
47:39I'm very proud of you all for filling up
47:41this room yes Marilyn you're next you
47:48have a microphone there it's best to sit
47:50down and speak into the microphone
47:58a quick question to a specific panelist
48:02Marilyn
48:03I didn't seem to be working so it is
48:08working okay okay I'm sorry to make a
48:12scene here
48:12I am zone 32 representative to Rotarian
48:17action goofer oh I guess it's to the
48:21peace fellow okay
48:23I'm sewing three two membership chair
48:27for reaction goo please we have facebook
48:31pages and well over the place and I'd
48:34like to know how you got chosen and do
48:39you think that rotary would benefit with
48:42a peace fellow from the muhammd area the
48:45plaza area of Pakistan
48:55I thank you I mean very quickly the
48:59selection prototype process I applied
49:03through my local club then to the
49:05district and then onwards onwards I
49:07think it's the same process now I think
49:08it's for what it's worth from my
49:10perspective it's it's a good process I
49:12got to know the Rotarians at my local
49:15club I actually can't remember how I got
49:16to know them but I got to know them
49:18quite well Bob and mud rico's they were
49:20great so I don't know if sometimes of
49:22how was selected that was I'm sorry in
49:26terms of the second party a question
49:28about whether the program will benefit
49:29from a scholar from those federally
49:34administered territories in Pakistan I
49:36think the program would benefit from
49:39scholars from almost anywhere in the
49:41world I don't think that there is any
49:42one region probably particularly more
49:45than another I think that those people
49:47who have had personal experience in
49:50their own countries with conflict can
49:53bring something you know different to a
49:55program absolutely I think the program
49:58has done very well increasingly to make
50:00sure that the program doesn't always
50:03look like me because the program
50:05shouldn't always look like me you know
50:07that the strength of the program is
50:10diversity is what I'm trying to say so
50:11the short answer the question is yes
50:15Matt can you hear me oh is it okay I'm
50:21passionately governor matsing Muslim
50:23that I have I'm involved in there and we
50:26can question directly to the question to
50:29these two young ladies here I was very
50:32impressed with your presentation and
50:33it's really you guys we need to hear
50:37from you because you have been on social
50:40media and you have a whole different
50:42paradigm on how peacemaking can be made
50:45and that's we are waiting for that to
50:48happen so we can have a more peaceful
50:50development so please stay in contact
50:53with me and I'll put you on my mailing
50:55list and we'll see how we can work that
50:58out because I think that's where we're
51:00going to have a change in paradigm thank
51:02you Matt yes
51:07speak into the microphone please and
51:09directed to one panelist yes my question
51:17is that any of any of them that do row
51:22tracks think about a global society
51:25because these flags of 193 nations have
51:28created the department's of Defense or
51:31Department of what I call them there is
51:33no Department of Peace do you think that
51:35as a Rotarian we should be talking about
51:38a global society where will we have
51:40global citizenship who anyone who wants
51:45to answer that that's why I'd like you
51:47to direct your question to one panelist
51:49Darren can you answer that yes
52:05yeah I mean there's I mean that's the
52:08shorten probably most accurate answer I
52:10mean the longer answer in five words is
52:13that I don't think we're going to get
52:14rid of and we probably shouldn't get rid
52:16of nation states anytime soon I'm not
52:17sure if you're going that far but I
52:19think that increasingly and and to pick
52:22up on what the previous question was I
52:24think that the different modes of of
52:26communications and sense of community
52:28now there are different communities
52:29being built than twenty years ago that
52:31are being built through social media
52:33through outreach I think the
52:35much-maligned millennial generation is
52:39you know unfairly maligned in terms of
52:42this is a generation that is much more
52:44interested in social outreach is much
52:46more engaged with communities beyond you
52:48know my generation your generation other
52:50generations concept of what community
52:52may have been and I think expanding and
52:54understanding what we mean by community
52:55to that extent exactly as my fellow
52:58panelists have been describing is
53:01critical and and the tide is turning and
53:03that's what's going to happen so get on
53:05board thank you if somebody is there
53:11anyone in the back there I don't want to
53:12feel they're lost back there anyone
53:14asking okay in the very back the man in
53:17the gray suit turn out just press your
53:24button speak into the microphone yes and
53:26direct your question to one panelist
53:47I mean well we have participants from
53:52like area of area who is influenced by
53:56the conflict from Iraq Afghanistan and
53:59Syria no but many participants from
54:01Greece from Balkan countries Italy so no
54:08from the Asian countries know we had
54:14participants who were from countries
54:16that were affected by the issues we were
54:19discussing in this particular conference
54:21for instance we did have a lot of lots
54:24of countries that were affected by the
54:25refugee crisis for that matter and so on
54:29do thank you who are you directing the
54:35question to my question is for the two
54:38young cute ladies to your right
54:41I mean Rodrick as well and I'm going to
54:45the International Convention now this
54:47coming year and I know there's a pre
54:49Convention for retract do you know if
54:51they have a United Nations retract model
54:54for the pre convention I know and you
54:57know I think which probably what is your
54:59thoughts about potentially setting one
55:01no well we will try to keep / 1 / annual
55:05so we will have one next year and it
55:08will be in Bulgaria in Sofia and we will
55:12have a special edition here in March in
55:16the headquarters of United Nations
55:19building the same building we are
55:20sitting here so maybe the year after
55:23that we can do thank you mention the
55:26young woman over there I put I'll turn
55:32your microphone on as a pressure button
55:35as a row director and someone who is
55:40with people who have been motivated and
55:43influenced by these young ladies
55:45how would you or what would you
55:48recommend row directors who are
55:50interested in this go about reaching out
55:52to the Rotary Club or getting involved
55:54in March as you mentioned for the one
55:56that's coming up or in future one
56:00okay first of all I would like to
56:03encourage as a road track to myself over
56:05all tractors to get involved in more
56:07international projects because that way
56:10generally international projects that
56:12way you understand that everything is
56:14interrelated at crises in one side of
56:16the world could affect a country at the
56:18other side of the world where whether it
56:20is the financial crisis in Greece or a
56:22refugee problem anywhere else now as far
56:25as it concerns this particular project
56:27it would be great if euro Latorre club
56:30would support you and you could send as
56:33many people as you could in the next
56:35edition but the applications will open
56:38soon online and you can just follow by
56:40yourself as well thank you we have two
56:44more questions that man has been raising
56:46his hand constantly so my question is
56:54really did you execute is directed to
56:58deny Beca general secretary dinner beca
57:00and to your point my or i'm not only a
57:07Rotarian but i belong to the global
57:11compact UN Global Compact and our
57:15organization the empty surplus project
57:17is a member of the Global Compact and
57:20rotor actors and rodent wrote Aryans are
57:24encouraged to collaborate with the
57:27Global Compact and and since the compact
57:31is global that is another way that rotor
57:34actors can can get involved
57:37thank you that's important information
57:39yeah one more on this side I'd say after
57:46him we'll take a short question from
57:48Yoko networking can you hear me yes my
57:52name is Amir asada I am the
57:53president-elect for the Rotary Club of
57:56the Bronx in New York and my question is
57:58directed to daran daran with your
58:01experience with the background that you
58:05shared with us about yourself being in
58:08Afghanistan what have you observed to be
58:12the
58:13the reason for the impasse between the
58:15understanding of the rest of the world
58:18of that region because it seems to be
58:20impenetrable and I don't think that
58:23throughout the history of humankind that
58:25we've had this kind of an organization
58:28or you know cultural group that you just
58:30can't seem to be able to communicate
58:32with them because it costs the world a
58:36lot of money and it cost the world a lot
58:39of emotional capital and it is not
58:41helping them in any way shape or form
58:44this cannot be sustained what is do you
58:47have anything to share with us as to
58:48what could the rest of the world do
58:50including the road II wrote Aryans to
58:53help that process I I don't I don't
59:01think with all due respect that there is
59:03a a breakdown in the communication
59:05between the rest of the world and the
59:08Afghans or vice versa I just don't think
59:12that that conversation happens very
59:14often I think that the world certainly
59:17for the last decade if not for last
59:18three decades has viewed Afghanistan
59:21solely through a military prism solely
59:23is a place where soldiers are sent to to
59:27fight and sadly to die and it's very
59:30difficult if that's solely the focus the
59:35lens through which you view any country
59:37to actually engage in a conversation
59:39that is broader than the military one it
59:42has been confused I guess that very
59:44quickly a more technical level by the
59:45fact that there have been I guess two
59:47missions running simultaneously in
59:49Afghanistan there has been a military
59:51Counter Terrorism mission that started
59:54with the u.s. that the US and allies
59:57have been running since 2000 2001 that
1:00:01has a counter terrorism objective that's
1:00:03a very clear military objective that's
1:00:04not about building a state that's not
1:00:06about doing anything other than
1:00:07capturing killing disrupting a terrorist
1:00:10network running parallel to that and
1:00:14very much parallel in that they don't
1:00:16really meet very often if it all is the
1:00:19operation that the United Nations is
1:00:21running which is not a counterterrorism
1:00:23operation which is about trying to
1:00:25assist the Afghan
1:00:26the Afghan people supporting them
1:00:28supporting elections supporting human
1:00:30rights efforts that's a very complicated
1:00:34very messy as State Building was
1:00:37assisting a nation to rebuild itself out
1:00:41of conflict is but the news and you
1:00:44can't really talk about this because
1:00:45nobody people go to Afghanistan so you
1:00:46don't see it firsthand the news focuses
1:00:48on the first and then tries to interpret
1:00:50the second through the first and you
1:00:52can't talk about a humanitarian mission
1:00:54if all you're talking about is a
1:00:55military operation and you know you
1:00:58can't and so as a consequence when I
1:01:00disagree with you to extent that we
1:01:02don't communicate with them I think it's
1:01:04that the rest of the world by and large
1:01:06view Afghanistan as being a place where
1:01:09a military operations going and
1:01:10humanitarian work is something that's
1:01:12not working I don't necessarily agree
1:01:14with the second but there is a
1:01:16fundamental disconnect there but it's
1:01:18more in terms of a very complicated
1:01:20situation that is presented very simply
1:01:22by the media you're not going to get the
1:01:23Afghan story in 30 seconds or less you
1:01:27know in between stories about a
1:01:28declining economy and a cat stuck up a
1:01:30tree it's simply not going to happen
1:01:31and that's unfortunate well thank you so
1:01:35much we have very little time I wish I
1:01:38could stay here all day with everybody
1:01:39but I promise you a short question who
1:01:43are you going to ask it to I'm either
1:01:46Darrin or all right either Darrin or
1:01:49Carla can answer this my name is Leila
1:01:523sh cuca I know I felt bad like either
1:01:56wise okay so my name is Leila bouzouki I
1:01:59am from Rotary District 7410
1:02:01Pennsylvania so my question is how do
1:02:05you plan or how would you tell others to
1:02:07plan to involve youth as policymakers in
1:02:10regards to bringing peace for all in
1:02:12rotary and the United Nations and the
1:02:14like Rotary Clubs like in any way
1:02:16possible how to involve youth is
1:02:20basically the reals of the basic
1:02:22question well I think there's I think
1:02:25there's many ways to involve youth I
1:02:27think when the panelists said here is
1:02:30listen to youth youth do have a voice
1:02:33and they do have valid opinions I feel
1:02:36so often working with high school
1:02:37students we just shut them down
1:02:39saying that they don't know anything and
1:02:41it's it's simply not true we need to
1:02:44actually listen to their ideas I mean
1:02:48there are they're just I'm getting a
1:02:52barrage of ideas here but I'm telling
1:02:57giving youth the opportunities to to
1:03:01study through rotary programs through
1:03:04other programs no matter what it is
1:03:06supporting them in exploring of
1:03:09different possibilities I think study
1:03:11abroad is a personal bias of mine
1:03:13exposing use to another culture early on
1:03:17is very important you know our world is
1:03:19getting increasingly more diverse and
1:03:21even in Vermont where we are getting a
1:03:24lot more transplants we call them people
1:03:29don't know how to deal with those
1:03:29differences so I think for me that the
1:03:33number one is to spare everybody some
1:03:35time number one is expose them to
1:03:37different people thank you and we really
1:03:43have to end now
1:03:50I want to thank you all for coming and
1:03:54filling up this room the peace and
1:03:56Conflict as I said before it gives me
1:03:58hope if you look around the room it will
1:04:00give you hope too and just hearing these
1:04:03panelists says it all so thank you and
1:04:07continue with your experiences in rotary
1:04:10and supporting the rotary peace efforts

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