Rotary International District 6510 - Southern Illinois - District Committees, Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Program

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Rotary is an organization of business & professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

The FOUR-WAY Test

Of the things we think, say, or do

First - Is it the truth?

Second - It is FAIR to all concerned?

Third - Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Fourth - Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Centers for International Studies
in Peace and Conflict Resolution Program

Ron Obernier - Chair
St. Clair County East

Purpose: Study for a masters degree at one of seven Rotary Centers for International Studies. You must study outside your own country.

Qualifications:

Bachelors with high GPA

Minimum of three years full-time work experience in a relevant field at time of application

Proficiency in two or more languages

Excellent leadership skills

Demonstrated commitment to peace and international understanding

Not related to a Rotarian

Education, lauguage fluency, experience, leadership, commitment, maturity. The average Rotary World Peace Fellow (RWP) is 32 years old.

Number: About 60 Fellowships are awarded per year for a 2-year program (about 120 RWP Fellows at a given time; about 200 applicants per year worldwide from 529 districts). Each district can nominate one person. Not tied to District Designated Funds, unlike Ambassadorial Scholars.

Time Table for 2008-2010 Class of RWP Fellows:

March 2007 - Clubs interview and select candidates, submit applications to the District
May-June 2007 - District committee interviews and selects candidate
July 1, 2007 - Deadline for Rotary to receive applications
July-October 2007 - The Rotary Foundation and Rotary Center university partners screen and select RWP Fellow finalists
November-December 2007 - Districts and candidates are notified

Stategy for Identifying and Recruiting Applicants:

Long-term process: start years in advance - RYLA, high school faculty

Contacts with universities and colleges, e.g. McKendree College, Paul Simon Institute, SIUC, SIUE, SWIC, other colleges - people who see students enroute to being good candidates

Find where candidates "congregate" - Peace Corps Alumni, Congressional and other governmental interns, NGOs

Advertise widely, develop contacts and educate them about Rotary and the Rotary World Peace Fellowship program; cultivate contacts who can lead us to the candidates. Club members know good candidates - get them involved.

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Rotary Centers for International Studies
in Peace and Conflict Resolution Program

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Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.