Peace Building Tools
Rotary's Peace Academy brings enlightening clarity to the effects resulting from Positive Peace Building: Reduction of Food insecurity, prevention of domestic violence, improved mental health, collaborative artistic creativity and advances in literacy-numeracy to name a few measures comprising a country's Global Peace Index.
Within the Peace Academy's curriculum are the repeated concepts of stability and resilience. Civil stability depends on a constructive dynamic between attitudes, institutions and structures operating to establish and maintain sustainable peace. While the role of these social and political entities seems obvious, even simple, only a read of the newspaper is evidence they are anything but rock solid.
Our opportunities to serve as Peace Builders are abundant and our responses robust: Redwood Empire Food Bank apple, carrot and potato patrol, boxing line or community garden/landscaping build awareness and equity in resilience. Our vision and dental missions to Vietnam and Nicaragua cleared cavities and cataracts and a bit of naivety as well. Two of our partnering Nicaraguan families, the Fonseca's and Rafael and Ninoska's lives have leveraged not hundreds, but thousands of people's healthcare resources and quality of life immensely. Combined efforts in fundraising, logistics, instrument cleaning, supply inventory here and abroad are measures of how we are advancing the pathways to peace, goodwill and better understanding.
The Peace Academy provides a window to see just how we can and do make a difference. Rotary Brings Hope to the World. Load up, keep on delivering!
