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Uppsala University in Sweden to host new Rotary Peace Center

The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees has selected Uppsala University  in Uppsala, Sweden, to host a new Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. 

During their April meeting, the Trustees agreed to negotiate an agreement with Uppsala University to house the seventh Rotary Peace Center , which will join those in Asia, Australia, North America, South America, and the United Kingdom.

"We are excited about this new partnership with Uppsala University to take the Rotary Peace Centers program to the next level," says Foundation Trustee Chair Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar. "We are confident that our Rotary Peace Fellow alumni, actively engaged in peace-building and conflict prevention and resolution around the world, will agree that partnering with Uppsala University to host a Rotary Peace Center is a winning strategy."

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Urgent Need for Peace Scholars

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According to Rotary International, more than 100 million people have been killed or seriously injured due to national and international struggles since 1945. Moreover, there is a problem of not having enough trained mediators, people who are an essential element in any peace process. The Peace Scholars Program is a solution to the problem. "Today, there are still far too few mediators who are experienced practitioners in conflict resolution. There is an urgent need to produce another generation of people who can play a mediating role in the future.   

Rotary Centers' for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolutions have been established at key locations around the world. There is one such centre in Brisbane. Their purpose is to train students to work towards mediation, conflict resolution and peace where there is war and other conflict. Students are taught to combat disharmony with understanding, hunger with food security, and disease with health care, illiteracy with education, environmental degradation with conservation and poverty with sustainable economic development. Candidates should have a degree, be fluent in a second language and have significant work experience in relevant fields.