Rotary Anti-Bullying Initiative: Peace Fellows and Rotarians Collaborate
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This webinar serves as a platform for Rotarian Peace Fellows and Rotarians involved with the anti-bullying VTT to share their work with other fellows and Rotarians. Topics that will be discussed include how the project was initiated, the fellows' experience working with Rotarians to plan, the actual event, and lessons learned.
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Rotary Anti-Bullying Initiative: Peace Fellows and Rotarians Collaborate
- 1. Rotary District 6060 Anti-Bullying Initiative: Peace Fellows and Rotarians Collaborate Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni Godfrey Mukalazi, Arik Gutler, Noelle Depape, Juliana Amal-Obonyo, Maria Celest Morell, Peter Paul Opata; and Rotary Past District Governor Kate Schwadron from D6060 Tue, Sep 16, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
- 2. How to participate in the webinar Use the Audio pod to select Use Telephone - or - Use Mic & Speakers * To improve sound quality, please close all unnecessary programs such as email, MS Office, etc. If you have a cellular device, please move it away from your computer.
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- 4. TITLE | 4 SECTIONS Project Identification- Kate Schwadron Project Design – Godfrey G. Mukalazi Project Implementation – Maria, Peter, Arik Findings - Juliana & Noelle Way forward – Kate, Godfrey, Arik, and Maria
- 5. TITLE | 5 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Project inception & Problem Identification The Problem was identified by then District 6060 Governor Kate Schwadron in consultation with the Rotary fraternity in Eastern Missouri. Stakeholders Analysis Rotary District Committee Rotary Foundation Grants office Rotary Clubs/Presidents Rotary Peace Fellow Alums For technical expertise School Administrations Communities/ Parents
- 6. TITLE | 6 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Project Design Development of outlines Presentations for the target groups (Students & Communities ) Identification of Peace Fellow Alumni to form a VTT Implementation Plan Scheduling the dates, Grouping the trainers/RPFA according to the various locations ( South, North, East, West and Central of St. Louis)
- 7. TITLE | 7 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 • Project Implementation Locations; North of St. Louis Team (Peter & Maria) Louisiana, Mexico, Lindbergh, Warrenton Central Team (Arik & Juliana) Wentzville, Troy, Central St. Louis South Team (Godfrey , Noelle & Mercy) Sikeston, Jackson, North county, Farmington & Van Buren All teams – Washington University, D6060 Conference (Question and answer session with Youth Exchange Students)
- 8. TITLE | 8 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Project Implementation Methodology Mini-Dramas/Simulations Small group discussions Question and answer sessions
- 9. TITLE | 9 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 In-depth Key themes : •Introductions & Self awareness •Defining the Subject matter (bullying)
- 10. TITLE | 10 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 In-depth Key themes : •Building understanding of the other •Empowering student leaders to take action
- 11. TITLE | 11 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 • Findings Students need open discussions of how they would define bullying, rather than just teasing, in their school environment. Students would benefit from programs aimed at recognizing individuals’ strengths. Students need to gain awareness of the impact of sarcasm and name-calling, and to create dialogues about how to change this cultural behavior (especially among girls). Students need education in methods of problem-solving and mediation Students have a strong desire to gain the skills to manage bullying problems within their own circles, with teachers, administrators, and parents reinforcing the students’ efforts in the school and general community.
- 12. TITLE | 12 ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Way forward based on Recommendations •Encourage and facilitate local Rotary clubs and schools in carrying out the students’ desire to create Peace Clubs or Peace-Building as a focus of existing Interact Clubs •Provide training for Rotarians and school personnel to become facilitators as students take on management of anti-bullying in their schools •Publicize the innovation and encourage other Rotary Districts to duplicate the Conflict Resolution & Peace building – VTT •We hope to share the experience & best practices during the Rotary Peace Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 13. ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Way forward •Roll out the activity by forming Sister “peace clubs” in Israel 1. Students meet, get to know each other, host one another and build trust. 2. Students learn what conflict is:. They learn to utilize tools such as conflict mapping, defining key issues, developing and implementing strategies and teaching peace. 3. Students explore examples from around the world: Sri Lanka, South Philippians, Ireland, Rwanda... 4. Students have the chance to meet with practitioners from active peace organizations. 5. Students suggest models to deal with the Middle East conflict, 6. students will become part of worldwide peace club network facilitated by Rotary World Peace Fellows. TITLE | 13
- 14. ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 Way forward •Roll out the activity by forming Sister “peace clubs” in Argentina TITLE | 14 Back from Missouri, Maria: -Promote the project within Rotarians D. 4815 (Cordoba, Arg) -Delivered workshops and conferences to rotarians, school authorities and community members on how to build a culture of peace with school. -Three schools/and a juvenile detention center in different locations within the province are involved, planning their own PEACE CLUB -Next step: will be delivering the training for students as PEACE defenders
- 15. ROTARY DISTRICT 6060 VTT - SPRING 2014 • Conclusion & Way forward • Roll out the activity by forming Sister “peace TITLE | 15 clubs” in Uganda CONTACTS: E-mail: gmukalazi@hotmail.com Skype ID: ggmukalazi
- 16. TITLE | 16 Questions?
- 17. TITLE | 17 Thank you! Register for upcoming webinars and access recordings of past webinars at www.rotary.org/webinars
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to our third Rotary Peace Fellow webinar. My name is Kat O’Brien and I’m the Rotary Peace Centers Relationships Supervisor. I’m joined by my collegues Emily Ruf, Sarah Cunningham, and Ryan Rounds. This webinar is called the Rotary District 6060 Anti Bullying Initiative and features 6 Rotary Peace Fellow alumni and 1 Rotarian who formed the first Rotary Peace Fellow Vocational Training Team (VTT) to raise anti-bullying awareness. Today, we are joined by Rotary Past District Governor Kate Schwadron from D6060 and Rotary Peace Fellows Godfrey Mukalazi, Arik Gutler, Noelle Depape, Juliana Amal-Obonyo, Maria Celeste Morell, and Opata Paul will talk to us about their VTT, including how it came to be, successes, and lessons learned. Before we get started, I just want to take a moment to familiarize you with how to participate in today’s webinar.
- MODERATOR How can you participate in the webinar today? You each have your own control panel in the upper right corner of your screen that looks similar to the one here. Use the orange arrow to open or close your control panel. Next, you’ll select the audio option for listening to today’s webinar. Select the option you prefer in your own control panel in the upper right hand corner of your screen. If you’d like to connect via the telephone, the dial-in and access numbers will be provided to you in your control panel once you select the “Telephone” option. Or, you may choose to participate via mic and speakers from your system. If you are using your computer’s speakers and are having problems hearing, you may wish to try USB headphones or you may wish to try switching to the telephone option.
- MODERATOR In order to maintain the highest sound quality possible, all but our panelists and myself will be muted during the webinar. We encourage you to submit questions or comments to our panelists and to RI staff members by using the question pod on your attendee control panel (in the upper right corner of your computer screen). You can also use the question pod if you’re having technical difficulties. Simply describe the problems you are having in the Questions box in your control panel, and an RI staff member will assist you right away. Now, let’s take a moment to practice using the question pod. Please type your name and where you’re joining us from. ****** Comment on answers coming into the questions pod
- GODFREY Hello everyone, my name is Godfrey Mukalazi RPF Alumnus Class III from the Great Rotary Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. I will be speaking to you on how the project intervention was designed, and with are my fellow panelists; PDG Kate Schwadron from Rotary District 6060 who will be sharing the back ground of the project, identification and part of the way forward; RPFS Maria Class from the Rotary Centre at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, Peter Paul Class from Bradford, UK and Arik Class III UQ who will be sharing on experiences during the project Implementation and partly on the way forward. We also have Juliana of Class Bradford, UK and Noelle of Class II UQ who will talk about our intervention findings.
- After meeting Peace Fellow Alum Godfrey Mukalazi at the Peace Symposium in Salt Lake City, I was determined that my governorship would include a project that would allow the Rotarians in my district to become familiar with the Rotary World Peace Fellows and what they are doing to change the world. I also wanted to demonstrate the VTT concept to my district, since we had been involved in Group Study Exchanges for many years. I identified bullying as the major peace problem that is universal in my district through consultations with Rotarians, school officials, and community members. As the plan developed, we realized that this would be of most interest and value to our rural school districts, as the city districts already had budgets to support anti-bullying programs. We realized that bringing the Peace Fellows from all over the world would further provide inspiration to our rural students to explore the larger world, to see themselves as peace-builders, and to become change-makers in their own environments. I’ll ask Godfrey to discuss how we actually designed the project now.
- GODFREY After our first encounter in Salt Lake City (2007) the conversation begun on a lighter note, and it progressively became serious after our second meet at the Symposium in Birmingham, UK, This was cemented by a Peace Project targeting High School students in Post Conflict Northern Uganda which was sponsored by Kate’s Club, the Rotary Club of Lambert Airport. With that background experience, coupled with skills & knowledge attained during the Peace fellowship, l was able to offer the expertise in developing the rationale for the Vocational Training (VT) by doing a Situational Analysis to determine the magnitude of the problem; A contextual Analysis to understand the socioeconomic environment of the targeted area; and also the stakeholders Analysis (Students, School administrator, communities/ parents, Rotarians, RPF Alumni Then developed the Goals; 1- Creating awareness about the use of peace building tools & approaches to bullying 2- Providing information to Rotarians in the targeted area about the existence and value of the Rotary World Peace Fellowship Program 3- Creating a platform for experience sharing by RPF Alumni with students & Rotarians related to our work in peacebuilding across the World
- MARIA Highlight the project locations, how our interaction with the Rotarians was just to give the audience a feel of the project coverage. After months of planning through virtual communication, finally the team met in St. Louis at the beginning of April, and shared an intense full day to polish details. Immediately after, we split into two-members groups, in order to be able to cover as much cities as possible, and given that the workshops were designed so that could be managed by two of us. Each group was composed by fellows from different geographical origin, and different backgrounds too, which greatly enriched the experience of the students exposed by our presence, and our own experience as the same time. As I said before, in this way we were able to cover more schools, many of them in semi-rural areas of the countryside, and some at St. Louis and its area. This also gave us the opportunity to interact with a larger number of rotarians as well, who welcomed each team in their cities, showed us around, invited us to their meetings, introduced us to local authorities, and shared their family life with the teams.
- PETER
- ARIK School workshop see students as leaders/ our peacebuilding partners/ share responsibility Write on a paper and put on your dash: What is an ideal school? Is an ideal leaders? How does your leadership will assist an ideal school? An Ice breaker- A game – a friend and an enemy- ice break. How does it feel? What does it mean to be afraid of some one? / to trust some one? How is your school? Who are we- what is peace building/ prevention/ transformation/ For example: What is a conflict? (it feels bad' feel unjust . under surface, on surface) A conflict tree - 5 people group asking: what is bulling. -we drew A conflict tree- root cause. Problem. Symptom. Root-cause list (chart 1). Why is it happening? Television? Parents? Friends write A list – what is more important? (chart 2) Shot term-long term To-image theatre Bulling- story- turn into image theatre – what is the bulling borderline? (noelle's list) have you ever been there? A conflict between friend / argument / accident / joke Or Use Power advantage / intentionally harmful / oppressive – targeting – isolating / Actors & resources Who are the actors in a bulling situation?- a list (chart 3)What resources do you have- a list chart 4) What is your plan? Group work (5 in a group) What can we do? chart 5) Now tear the paper and put it back again- it's like a conflict Rotary- question for: How much bulling in your school? Why do you think it's happning?10 optionss (noelle's list) What are you going to do?
- Juliana Build Understanding of one another Took students through the process of putting themselves in another person’s shoe with the goal of encouraging them to understand and appreciate their similarities and differences as a basis for building positive connections. Note: Enumerate examples of bullying that students identified Empowering students to take Action The team worked to empower students in their leadership capacity to identify challenging issues in their homes, school and community- bulying came up almost instantly as a challenge and threat to student’s co-existence Encouraged students to identify innovative ways of dealing with these situations
- Noelle Please come up with your talking points that you’re convertible with, thanks
- Our school year just started, so we are working with the clubs and schools that were involved in the VTT to identify two to three pilot groups that will be either Peace Clubs or Peace-Focused Interact clubs. Our plan at this time is to set up training sessions for facilitators so that we can provide the students with skills in conflict identification, mediation, and peace awareness. My hope is that I can bring some of the Fellows back to do this training. I do think this is something that would be incorporated in the original VTT for those districts that want to hold a Peace VTT themselves. We are all available to answer questions and provide suggestions to any districts interested in doing this. I think we’re ready for questions now.
- During our stay in Saint Louise I have learned from my Ugandan and Kenyan friends about the concept of peace club I've wrote a Middle East version A youth peace club program for Jewish and Arab high school students Which will learn together conflict resolution theories, and will come up with fresh ideas and will collaborate with international friends I'm introducing the plan these days to Jewish and Arab educators.
- Back from Missouri, Maria concentrated in promoting the project within the rotarians of her district (4815 Cordoba, Argentina), by delivering several workshops and conferences to them both in Rotary events (as the District conference) and community events organized with the support of her and other rotary clubs in the district. To date, there are three pilot projects for the formation of peace clubs in three schools of her province. And the most ambitious idea Maria is working on, is to held “anti-bullying and conflict resolution workshops” such as the one designed for Missouri’s schools, to a juvenile detention center, where here Rotary club sponsors a project on vocational training. Rotarians, school authorities, local authorities are already involved in the planning. And Maria has been testing the model by delivering conferences to rotarians and other members of the community. There is even a center for research and development of peer mediation within high-school students (depending on the National University of Rio Cuarto Cordoba) involved in the Peace Clubs project. Next step: will be conducting the training for students, during the next two months.
- Building on previous project intervention (Rotary Global Grant 25077) sponsored by the Rotary Club of Lambert Airport-D6060, and hosted by the Rotary Club of Rubaga, Kampala – D9211 were we provided training for conflict avoidance to high school students in post conflict Northern Uganda, and also provided support to the formation of Peace Clubs, we shall be rolling out the intervention in Uganda, Argentina and Israel collaboration with D6060, Missouri’s project. We are therefore calling out Rotarians who may be interested in Peace Project to come up and join in and we light up Rotary For further information you can reach me through the contacts on the slide Thanks for sparing time to be we us on this Webinar
- MODERATOR Wow, thank you for all of that information about your VTT. It looks like we have some time to answer questions. Please feel free to either raise your hand and wait to be called on or type your questions in the question pane. When you ask your questions, please specify who your question is for or I will direct the question directly to Godfrey or Kate.
- MODERATOR Thank you all for participating today. As a follow up to the webinar, you will receive… [a link to view a recording of today’s webinar] . If you have any follow-up questions from today’s webinar, please email us at rotarypeacecenters@rotary.org You will also receive a survey after this webinar. Your feedback is important to us, as your survey responses will be used to improve future webinars offered by Rotary International. Please take a moment to complete the survey and give us your input. On behalf of our panelists and Rotary staff, thank you for attending today’s webinar.