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What you can do for peace

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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.

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Dr Tania Miletic

Assistant Director, Centre for Peacebuilding
Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Tania is Assistant Director of the newly established Centre for Peacebuilding, Arts Faculty, University of Melbourne. Prior to this, she was Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, engaged on the Australian International Conflict Resolution Project, which seeks to enhance the role of conflict prevention and peacebuilding in Australian foreign policy.

Tania has over a decade experience living and work in Asia. She is Faculty with the Cambodia-based Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and is a visiting academic with the Zhou En Lai School of Government, University of Nankai.

Tania, a Paul Harris Fellow (2014), was a Rotary Peace Fellow (2002-2004) and was the RPFAA Regional Coordinator – Oceania from 2019-2020.

Jessica Trijsburg

Jessica has held leadership roles in the government and community services with a particular focus on cultural diversity, capacity development and self-determination. Her career has taken her to Indonesia, USA and The Netherlands, and she is currently undertaking PhD research on the role of migrants in community resilience to shocks, bringing together networks and expertise from these varied roles. She has previously established a number of award-winning peace-building programs and undertaken strategic work in areas of: Migrant and Refugee Health; Interculturalism; Interfaith; Alt-right Extremism; and Social Cohesion in rapid growth areas.

Jessica was a Rotary Peace Fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University in 2011-13.

Dr. Walter B. Gyger

Walter B. Gyger graduated in Public Management from the University of St.Gallen, and has written his doctor thesis on European Integration. He is Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Russia’s Academy of Education.

He joined the Diplomatic Service of the Swiss Government in 1974. After his initial training in Bern and at the Graduate Institute for international relations in Geneva he joined the Swiss Embassy in Teheran, the Swiss Delegation to the Economic Organisations in Geneva, the Mission to OECD in Paris and the Embassy in Bonn. In 1987 he was appointed Deputy Director for international Organisations in Bern and in 1991 the Swiss Government appointed him Ambassador to Senegal, Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Gambia. From 1995 to 1999 he was Head of the Swiss Mission to the Office of the United Nations and other international Organisations in Geneva. Afterwards he represented Switzerland in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. In 2004 he was appointed Swiss Ambassador to Turkey and between 2006 and 2007 he was also accredited as Ambassador to Azerbaijan. His last diplomatic assignment was in Moscow as Ambassador of Switzerland to the Russian Federation.

After retirement he joined the board of two humanitarian foundations. Since July 2015, he is main representative of Rotary International to the UN Office and other international Organisations in Geneva. He is married and father of 3 Children.

Sibylle Rupprecht

Sibylle Rupprecht is a lecturer, trainer and a certified coach. She is a mentor at the Cherie Blair Foundation, she teaches and trains in different training institutes and in the field. She studied management of international organizations at the University of Fribourg and holds an executive certificate in international advocacy from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is certified in human behaviour analysis.

A Rotarian for over 10 years already, Sibylle is a founding member of Rotary Club Genève International. She has been involved in many different projects within Rotary and held a number of functions. She is also a founding member and president of the Swiss/Liechtenstein Rotary Action Group for Peace. As a co-chair of the Rotarian Peace Projects Incubator she was key to designing and executing this important international event. Over 50 people have worked over the past 6 months to create 48 community-based peace projects that were presented on 1 November during the Incubator Day.

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska is a Holocaust and genocide scholar and educator. Her forthcoming Ph.D. dissertation deals with genocide distortion and identity in Eastern Europe.

She has extensive experience in the field of memorialisation and dealing with the past both in Europe and Asia. Her recent experience includes work at the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw. Poland, as well as cooperation with the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and other museums and sites of memory in Europe and Asia.

She has also worked with organisations monitoring racism and xenophobia such as the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association. In 2018, she acted as a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Since 2019 she has been the regional coordinator for Europe at RPFAA.

Assoc Prof Morgan Brigg

Director Rotary Program, Indigenous Engagement
School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland

Morgan Brigg blends theory and practice in examining the interplay of culture, governance and selfhood in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, governance, and international development. He worked in conflict resolution and mediation prior to his academic career, and he continues to practice as a nationally accredited mediator and facilitator. His research develops ways of knowing and working across cultural difference which draw upon Indigenous approaches to political community. Current projects examine ways of recuperating Indigenous forms of governance and conflict resolution, and the promise of ideas of relationality for making the field of conflict resolution a genuinely global endeavour.