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 Rotary District 5100  Past District Governor

Mike joined the Rotary Club of Newberg Oregon (USA) in 2001. Mike is the founder of Rotary Peacebuilder Clubs, founded in 2011, in District 5100 and now established in over 550 Rotary Clubs around the world and growing. Mike served as District Governor in District 5100 during the 2011-12 Rotary year and served for 11 years as the District Rotary Peace Fellowships Sub-Committee Chair and is Co-Chair of District 5100 Peacebuilder Clubs committee. Mike is the recipient of the Rotary International Service Above Self award as well as the Citation for Meritorious Service. 

 Rotary Peace Fellow, Fields of Peace Executive Director

Reem Ghunaim is a leader in peace-building and social impact, serving as the Executive Director of Fields of Peace. With a commitment to global peace, Reem has been entrusted with evolving the organization's mission to inspire and drive a global peace-building movement, particularly focusing on children affected by conflict.

Reem spearheads the Generation Peace Program, emphasizing cultural exchange, citizen diplomacy, and positive peace principles to address peace inequality and promote global solidarity. By connecting children from conflict-affected and peaceful regions, it not only fosters cross-border friendships and mutual understanding but also educates American children about US foreign policy and its impact on their friends in conflict zones, fostering awareness and engagement.

 Past President, Rotary Club of Jaro-Centraline Rotary District 3850
 

Jec has grown up in the midst of a civil war between the world's governing philosophies. 

Equipped with a guitar, international ecumenical leadership experience and American-Philippine Baptist influences, he has sought to seek and pursue peace while he grows in his discipleship to Jesus Christ. 

Jec is a Baptist Pastor, Past President of the Rotary Club of Jaro Centraline, a Pickleball Player, and Music Man.  Jec has been trained in conflict transformation, positive peace, medical technology, divinity, and human rights. He is based in Iloilo, Philippines. Promoting good health, goodwill, teamwork, excellence, and heart, Jec volunteers his time with Iloilo Pickleball Association, Inc. while parenting his two children Matteo Chaim and Annika Estelle, with Nurse-Educator wife, Herme. 

Peace Builder, Rotarian, Environmental Scientist

 I knew from a young age that I would study the environment -- rivers were dead and exuded a foul  odor, lakes were filled with leaches,  black particles fell from the air, and  friends died before graduating from high school.  In the 1960's, there were no environmental  degrees but with the help of advisors, we pieced together what we thought an environmental program would look like.  For more than 40 years as a researcher and scientist and as a consultant,  I studied the cumulative impacts of pollution and the long-term impacts of war on the environment. I was fortunate to be part of the transformation from a polluted world to one less polluted.  Although I see those gains evaporating, I have hope that we can soon see a rapid swing of the pendulum to the restoration of the natural systems on which all life depends and to a sustainable world. Currently, I co-produce webinars on climate and militarization,  AI's integration of weapons, the role of data centers in weaponizing the war system.....

 Phill Gittins, PhD, Education Director for  World BEYOND War 

 Phill Gittins, PhD, is Education Director at World BEYOND War. He is an educator, practitioner, researcher, and author with over 20 years’ leadership, programming, and analysis experience in the areas of peace, education, psychology, youth, and community development. He has lived, worked, studied, and travelled in over 60 countries, taught in schools, colleges, and universities around the world, and trained thousands of practitioners and activists on peace, security, and social change-related issues. Phill has led and supported a wide range of education programmes, research initiatives, and multi-stakeholder collaborations across civil society, public institutions, and international networks. He is a Rotary Peace Fellow, Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace, and Positive Peace Activator and Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. Phill holds a PhD in International Conflict Analysis, an MA in Education, and a BA (Hons) in Youth and Community Studies, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Peace Education.   Phill can be reached at phill@worldbeyondwar.org..

  Rotary Peace Fellow/Makerere University, Uganda, Director of the African Peacemaking Database. 

Seth comes from an inter-religious family, which includes Buddhists, Jews, and Anabaptist Christians, who taught him the value of harmony and love from a young age. He attended the Parliament for the World’s Religions in Spain at the age of 16, and it sparked his desire to work towards friendship with different cultures. His interfaith work has led him to work in Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Malawi, and Ethiopia, France, and Austria.  

 Andrew Stone is a Rotary Peace Fellow alumnus who conducts research and work related to environmental issues in Southeast Asia. Based at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, he has been involved in regional peacebuilding studies and acted as a moderator for the Rotary Peace Fellows' working group.  His work has been highlighted within Rotary international networks, focusing on the intersection of environmental issues and conflict prevention.