Workshop Moderator

Kirsten Sayers
RedR Australia CEO

Speakers

Barnaby Caddy
Australia Assists Deployee – RedR Australia

Natascha Hrychow
Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & GCSP Global Fellow

Anggie Burchill
Australia Assist Deployee – RedR Australia,
Rotary Peace Fellow

How do humanitarians build trust and sustain peace? Three humanitarian experts give their advice from crises around the world.

In times of crisis or disaster, coordinated humanitarian action is crucial to an effective response. But, with so many actors and individual agendas at play, how do you rapidly build trust across different levels of influence to ensure people receive the help they need quickly, efficiently and inclusively.

Workshop Moderator

Dr Jonathan Kolieb
Peace and Conflict Lead
Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University

Speakers

Kylie Porter
Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network Australia

Keren Adams
Legal Director, Human Rights Law Centre

Associate Professor Shelley Marshall
Director, RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre

Phoebe Wynn-Pope
Head of Business & Human Rights, Corrs Chambers Westgarth

From the 1984 Bhopal Union Carbide chemical leak that killed thousands, to Rio Tinto’s 2020 destruction of Juukan Gorge, major abuses of human rights in the past few decades have prompted renewed attention and regulation of companies’ viz-a-vis human rights – the basic freedoms and protections that belong to all of us.
 
Should a company respect human rights? What should the consequences be if a company fails to uphold the human rights of their employees or the communities in which they operate?
 
This panel will explore the roles and responsibilities of business in the realisation of human rights, and how companies are being held accountable (or not) for their human rights record. Importantly, this session will also include discussion on what we can do to encourage greater corporate respect for human rights.

Workshop Facilitators

Dr Tania Miletic
Assistant Director, Centre for Peacebuilding, Melbourne University

Jessica Trijsburg
Migration & Community Resilience Researcher

Speakers

Walter Gyger
Retired Ambassador
Main Representative of Rotary International to the UN in Geneva

Sibylle Rupprecht
CEO, Lecturer, Trainer & Coach

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska
Holocaust & genocide scholar,
Educator, Rotary Peace Fellow

Assoc Prof Morgan Briggs
Director Rotary Program, Indigenous Engagement,
University of Queensland

This session will provide context and direction for you to be authentically involved in peacebuilding – as clubs and as individuals. You will be presented with an overview of peacebuilding theory, the ways that initiatives seek to transform drivers of conflict from respected practitioners in this field. This will be complemented with examples from panelists involved in initiatives to connect Rotarians with peace efforts globally underway through the Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni Association. This practically-oriented session will prompt you to self-reflect on what you might best be able to bring to the pursuit of peace, and provide you with guidance on how to connect with professionals in this space and seek out initiatives to support.