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Why this conference? Conflict that concerns you? Best thing for peace? $1.6 Billion Question

• 9:00am — Welcome, Introduction, Objectives
• 9:30am — Musical Handshakes
• 9:45am — Why Peace Matters?
• 10:30am — Break (PVA)
• 10:45am — Power at the Center
• 11:00am — Global Peace Index
• 11:30am — Negative, Positive Peace
• 12:00pm — Lunch (Peace, Violence Timeline)
• 12:45pm — Envisioning an International Peacebuilding Opportunity
• 1:15pm — Exploring, Countering Different Types of Violence
• 1:35pm — Case Study: Bringing Peace to Shelters for the Homeless
• 2:00pm — Break
• 2:15 — Personal Values Assessment Results
• 2:30 — Conceptualizing Peace Projects
• 3:15 — Next Steps Planning
• 3:40 — Final Q&A

Today’s Crazy, Ambitious Agenda

On Paper – Why Peace Matters for Me Mothering Across Continents, Rotary Peace Fellow

Why Peace Really Matters …

• Truly understand drivers
• Activate compassion
• Imagine solutions
• Take positive action
• Inspire, replicate

NewGen Peacebuilders Program Objectives Influenced by so many . . .

NewGen Peacebuilders Since 2013

The Interesting Case of NGP Meets IYLEP https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05w41xn

Today’s Experiences: Integrating Pieces of Peace

• Inspired by Dr. Ian Harris…
• Different kind of model
• Key frameworks, foundations,

hands-on experiences

• Conflict analysis
• Peacebuilding tools
• Project speculation
• Find, make connections together;

Materials to continue journey

Elements of Rotary as Foundation, Opportunity

• Six Areas of Focus – Peace at Center?
• Rotary Peace Fellows
• Rotary Action Group for Peace
• Partners e.g. Institute for Economics & Peace
• Global Peace Index
• Positive Peace Index
• “Rotary Peace Academy”
• Clubs, Districts – Community Engagement

Personal Values Assessment: Skills and Style

We believe in the power of Tipping Points “We want peace, and we’re gonna get it!” Young People – from 3 billion to 180 million to cohorts of . . . Rotarians – from 1.2 million to 75,000 to 2,500 to about 375

Why Fredericksburg, Virginia?

What else would you like to know? Today? Us? Each other?

• Foundations: 2,500+ years
• Campus Clubs after Civil War
• WWI - 1919 Peace of Paris
• WWII - founding of UN system
• 1948 - first US academic program
• 1960s - Vietnam - university
• 1980s - Nuclear War/Cold War
• 1990s - Cold War/Berlin Wall
• 2001-2010: Int’l Decade:

Culture of Peace

Evolution of “Peace Making, Peace Keeping”

No sustainable development without peace No peace without sustainable development

But What if War is Over? Pinker? Factfulness? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs

Four Core Concepts What happens when people disagree about goals, values, beliefs? Who gets to decide?

Conflict

Power

Violence Peace

• Power not good or bad
• Power is everywhere - wielded for

constructive or destructive purposes

• Challenge is how to measure its use

and impact – violence vs. peace

• What you measure gets done?

Experiments with measures to drive dialogue

Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Global Peace Index Ambassadors Annual, ongoing analyses online

• Armed services personnel
• Weapons imports, exports
• Military, security, police
• Number of conflicts fought
• Deaths: conflicts, crime
• Jailed population
• Political instability,

demonstrations

• Criminality, incarceration
• Neighbor relations

• 2018 Rank – 163 countries

(11th year)

• Green (peaceful)
• Red (less peaceful)
• #1 (most peaceful) – Iceland
• 15 of 20 most peaceful – in Europe
• #163 (least peaceful) – Syria
• Peace in Middle East and North

Africa shown the greatest decline

• US declines in last few years

Highlights of IEP Global Peace Index

USPI – What Happens When You Focus on US? Mexico? Other Indicators: Human Development Index, Happiness

The defining 21st century concern: what are “human rights?” How do they relate to positive peace? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfh9gHalrk&feature=youtu.be

Eight Pillars of Positive Peace (PPI from IEP)

• 2016: 3rd year of rankings
• 800 sources
• Assesses:

“capacity to create and maintain a peaceful society based on a holistic set of institutions which work together to systematically shape the environment that leads to peace” “Positive Peace” paints a different picture? Does PPI measure the right things (asks Galtung?) Would community PPI mapping be helpful?

NEGATIVE PEACE Stopping arms, guns,

• pen fighting

NEGATIVE PEACE Stopping arms, guns,

• pen fighting

POSITIVE PEACE Managing social conflict in productive ways w/ 4 types of violence POSITIVE PEACE Managing social conflict in productive ways w/ 4 types of violence

What happens if you shift perspectives

• n “types” of peace?

V

• Serbia – West & East Crossroads
• SFRY - Yugoslavia
• From “Brotherhood and Unity” to Yugoslav

Wars - 1990s

• Srebrenica massacre - 1995
• Kosovo War and NATO bombing - 1999
• Bulldozer Revolution – 2000
• “Balkanization” – a catch phrase
• New, fragile democracy
• Low economic development, continued

nationalism

One peacebuilder’s question: how can I help my country, region build a more peaceful future? Can I bring effective peace education, training, mentoring?

• Literature Review
• Historical, Scholarly
• Popular Culture
• 50 Interviews
• Diversity of views
• For-profit, non-profit, public sector,

education, young, mature, elderly

• Coding and analysis
• Patterns
• Key ideas, questions, Big Ahas
• Recommendations
• Recommendations
• Proposed plan
• Search for partners

Two peacebuilders team up starting with Active Listening and a search for understanding

• “It Takes a Serb to Know a Serb”
• Mattjis Van de Port
• “Civic Education as Education for Peace in

the Context of Serbia’s 2000 Democratic Revolution”

• Sanja Djerašimović
• ”Grappling with Peace Education in Serbia”
• Ružica Rosandić

Key Literature Review Highlights

• Serbia is still living the

legacy of the Yugoslav wars…

• “Although the physical conflict

is over, we are mentally in the same conflict.”

• “We don’t know anything

else.”

Interview Highlights

• Serbia is isolated from the

rest of Europe and maybe the rest of the world…

• What do you mean? Serbia

isn’t peaceful?

• Peace, peace, peace: we

have peace fatigue!

• No development, no peace
• The role of young people

Down in the details of perspectives on peace

NGP Serbia 2019 Pilot Program: Home could be where we start

WHY NIŠ?

• My perspective changed – through new

lenses, I saw my country anew

• Highest Roma population in Serbia
• South – poorer part of the county
• Proximity to Kosovo, ethnic minorities
• Crveni Krst concentration camp held

Serbs, Jews and Roma - WW II

• Partnerships with Rotary Clubs from

Niš and Belgrade (rural and urban)

• D2483 partnerships - Western Balkans

The more we pursued questions . . . the more potential partnerships are emerging

• Rotary Peace Fellows interviewed
• TiER 1 Consulting Company in Ohio
• Major global consulting company interest
• Putting together a “scale” peace ed proposal
• US Embassy in Belgrade – starter grant
• Rotary – local, global
• FLEX
• United Nations (UN)
• Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe

(OSCE)

• Novak Đoković Foundation – focuses on Serbian

youth

What else would you like to know?

Jelena’s and Ally’s Experience: Violence and its underlying causes is like an iceberg

NEGATIVE PEACE Absence of direct/ physical violence (both macro and micro) NEGATIVE PEACE Absence of direct/ physical violence (both macro and micro)

PEACE

POSITIVE PEACE Presence of conditions of well- being and just relationships: social, economic, political, ecological POSITIVE PEACE Presence of conditions of well- being and just relationships: social, economic, political, ecological Direct Violence e.g., war, torture, abuse of children and women Direct Violence e.g., war, torture, abuse of children and women STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE

e.g., poverty, hunger

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE

e.g., poverty, hunger

CULTURAL VIOLENCE e.g., racism, sexism, religious intolerance CULTURAL VIOLENCE e.g., racism, sexism, religious intolerance

VIOLENCE

Connecting the Triangle to Negative/Positive Peace

Galtung’s been to Columbia U. and Charlottesville

Galtung’s Triangle of Violence helped them dissect and analyze the situation

Visible Direct Violence Cultural Violence Structural Violence Invisible

Physical, psychological by persons against persons; Includes: war, murder, rape, genocide, verbal abuse

No person directly responsible; Integral to structure

• f human organizations—social, political, economic

Examples: slow death from hunger, preventable diseases, suffering from unjust social systems Justification of direct and structural violence through nationalism, racism, sexism and other discrimination and prejudice; makes direct and structural violence seem right (or at least not wrong)

Triangle + Creation of new connections/ empathy via communications

Visible Direct Violence Cultural Violence Structural Violence Invisible

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Small groups with table posters
• Select “violence cards”
• Group, place each card where you

believe it belongs (agree why)

• Other interpretations?
• Debrief

Experience with the Triangle

Growing up and living in “C’ville"

• Small, beautiful city
• Artistic
• Perceives self as inclusive
• Yet, “monuments” debate and

clashes emerged, become focal point for national debate

• August 12
• Our perspective
• Led to lots of self-reflection but gaps,

even awkwardness about action

Our Interest: Intersection of Passion, Needs, Skills Stigmatization of People Who are Homeless Not Even One Permanent Shelter in C’ville

• Evidence-based research
• Across States
• Demonstrated power of Arts to aid in identity,

dignity, stress relief in shelters for the homeless

• Partnered: PACEM and The Haven
• Created workshop experiences
• Started one pilot – our small team
• Intentionally open, learning format
• Multi-media art
• Met the most amazing people

Surprise: Youth Winner at Tom Tom C’ville

• Social Innovation Pitch Challenge
• Pitched to 600 students and judges
• Won First Place:
• $2500
• iLab spot
• UVA Darden School of Business
• Motivated us to work harder

UVA Darden Experience Innovation Lab (iLab)

• Saw peace project as

potential Social Enterprise

• Countless resources
• Mentors: Debby White, Phillipe

Sommer

• Workshops with business and

marketing heads

• Structures such as LLC, etc.
• Office space
• Peer mentoring

Case Study: Art for the Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfh9gHalrk&feature=youtu.be

The Future of Our Project

• Winter workshop series
• Partner with more
• rganizations
• Madison House UVA
• Local Businesses
• Kathryn Davis Peace Prize
• Orientation Nov. 17
• Opportunity to win $10,000

Most important: We learned the distinctions: Pity, Sympathy, Empathy and Compassion as Love in Action

Pity: Looking down on another’s misfortune Sympathy Feeling sorry for another’s hurt Empathy Walking in another’s shoes Compassion Love in action

Questions?

• Feel free to find us during the

break for follow up questions

Defining “Compassionate Presence”

How do you

• accompany
• alleviate suffering
• and create space

for the creative emergence

• f a person who has

experience loss (or violence)?

• John Paul Lederach

15 Minute Break ...

They designed and implemented good plans But how did the start – conflict question and facts to explore

What about the current political climate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKfwzpRJt2A&app=desktop

A Tool All Peace Projects Can Have in Common Concept Maps and Conflict Trees

Exercise

• Direct Violence:

Gun Violence in US

• Structural Violence:

Incarceration in VA

• Cultural Violence

“Walls” in Roanoke Sustained peace based on local engagement Three topics – one topic at each table

Engaging Heads, Hearts, Hands

Personal Values Assessment (PVA)

What Next? Remember the Tipping Point Materials her for you, Survey, NGPOP resources, Replicable Trainings