Building Peace from the Ground Up
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This document summarizes a presentation given at the 2018 Rotary Peacebuilding Summit on partnerships between the U.S. Peace Corps and Rotary International to build peace from the local level. It outlines the objectives, principles, areas of focus, and opportunities for collaboration between the two organizations. Some challenges to peacebuilding through volunteering discussed include issues of scale, generalist volunteer skill sets, risk aversion regarding volunteer safety, sustainability over short volunteer durations, and congressional restrictions on volunteer activities. The document promotes further exploring partnerships through group discussions and provides contact information for follow up.
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Building Peace from the Ground Up
- 1. Building Peace together from the Ground Up Rotary Peacebuilding Summit Toronto, 2018
- 2. Ted Adams Office of Strategic Partnerships and Intergovernmental Affairs U.S. Peace Corps
- 3. Workshop Objectives: Getting better at peace-building On-the-ground peace-building look like --Volunteerism --Collaboration --Sustainability Framing the conversation --The Peace Corps Model --Peace Corps and Rotary Collaboration Audience Exercise
- 7. Education Health Community Economic Development Environment Youth in Development Agriculture 40% Peace Corps’ Areas of Focus 22% 9% 7% 9% 9%
- 8. • People to People • Capacity building • Participatory & inclusive • Locally driven Long-term vision Process = product Bottom up Sustainable Peace Corps Principles
- 9. Peace Corps and Rotary International
- 10. Strengths --Mission alignment --Shared local approach --Bottom-up structures --Shared sector area priorities --Complementary assets (skills, perspectives, geographies) --Many opportunities for collaboration
- 12. RPCV Katie McSheffrey speaks to the Bethesda Rotary Club about her work supporting girls education in Ghana Pre- Departure In-Service Collaboration Returning Volunteer Support Direct Service Peace Corps Tonga and the Rotary Club of Nuku’alofa have collaborated across a wide variety of locally-led community projects through Tongan Schools Contribute to projects or provide technical and training support to PCVs Work with an RPCV to facilitate involvement between Rotary clubs and Peace Corps Posts An RPCV worked with Rotarians in Senegal to combat cervical cancer through training health care workers and expanding cervical cancer screening services Serve in Peace Corps’ two-year program or in Peace Corps Response for short-term, specialized placements Kate Burrus and her husband taught students in St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica as Peace Corps Volunteers. Connect with Peace Corps recruiters to promote Peace Corps’ two year program and Peace Corps ResponsePeace Corps has regional recruiters all over the country who are eager to speak about Peace Corps service at Rotary club meetings and/or events Invite a Returned Volunteer to share their service experience
- 13. Limitations/Challenges/Realities --Capacity building as solution (Scale/Volunteer role) --Experience/skill sets (Generalists) --Risk averse (Volunteer safety) --Sustainability (Time at site) --Congressional mandate (What Volunteers are allowed to do)
- 14. Group Exercise
- 15. Group Questions What are the challenges of peace-building on the ground through Volunteering? What are the challenges of partnering at the local level to build peace? How do we define success around peace-building and how do we sustain it?
- 16. Thank you! Visit the Peace Corps booth in the House of Friendship - Booth #527 Partnering for Peace Briefing on the Peace Corps/Rotary Partnership - Monday, June 25th from 5 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - Room 803B of the Convention Center - Ted Adams: partnerships@peacecorps.gov - Elina Kushnir: rotary.service@rotary.org
Notes de l'éditeur
- Charlie: Peace Corps sends U.S. citizens abroad to help tackle the most pressing needs around the world while promoting better international understanding of culture and enhancing global awareness. Peace Corps Volunteers live and work alongside the people they support for a period of two or more years and concentrate efforts to create sustainable change that lives on long after their period of in-country service. Peace Corps currently has volunteers in more than 60 countries and concentrates on the following sectors: education, health, community economic development, environment, youth in development, and agriculture. Rotary and Peace Corps first signed a letter of collaboration in May 2014 to promote both organizations’ shared missions of service and sustainable community development. Under the letter of collaboration, Rotary and the Peace Corps explored collaboration opportunities solely in the Philippines, Thailand, and Togo as a one year pilot. Following the one year pilot, Rotary and Peace Corps signed a three year memorandum of understanding in May 2015 to continue facilitating local connections and promoting the shared mission of service and sustainable community development.
- Peace Corps sends U.S. citizens abroad to help tackle the most pressing needs around the world while promoting better international understanding of culture and enhancing global awareness. Peace Corps Volunteers live and work alongside the people they support for a period of two or more years and concentrate efforts to create sustainable change that lives on long after their period of in-country service. Peace Corps currently has volunteers in more than 60 countries and concentrates on the following sectors: education, health, community economic development, environment, youth in development, and agriculture.
- Very similar Issue areas to Rotary Majority of our Volunteers focus on Health and Education More on youth later…but 80% of volunteers work with youth… Food security also cuts across multiple sectors...