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Saturday, April 5, 2025
8:30AM – 3:00PM
FedEx Global Education Center
UNC-Chapel Hill


Please join us on Saturday, April 5th for the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center’s 22nd Annual Spring Conference. Our theme this year will be Stories of Peace: Centering Community for Collective Transformation. Class 22 Rotary Peace Fellows will present their research, exploring new ways of thinking about peacebuilding, international development, and conflict transformation in many regions of the world.

The conference will take place at the FedEx Global Education Center on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus from 8:30am to 3:00pm. Doors will open at 8:00am, and attendees are encouraged to check in and view a special exhibition of research posters created by Class 23 fellows as part of the Peace Innovation Showcase at Duke University last December. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

If you are traveling from out of town and need to book a hotel room, for your convenience, we have reserved blocks of hotel rooms at discounted rates. Information on how to reserve one of these rooms can be found here.

Can’t attend in person? We offer a livestream and Zoom webinar for those who would like to participate in our conference remotely. Those that register here to attend virtually will receive a link and instructions on how to attend in advance of the conference.

Click Here to Register!


Graduating Fellows – Class 22 (2023-2025)

Laila Abed
PALESTINE
Duke University – Master in International Development Policy
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Patrick Henry Asiñero
THE PHILIPPINES
Duke University – Master in International Development Policy
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Haruna Fukaya
JAPAN
Duke University – Master in International Development Policy
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Aleksandra Zaborowska
POLAND
Duke University – Master in International Development Policy
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Gideon Kapalasa
MALAWI
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – School of Global Public Health
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Jacinta Bailey
AUSTRALIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Global Studies
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Paola Saldivias Mendez
BOLIVIA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Global Studies
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TENTATIVE PROGRAM

8:30-9:30  Registration

9:30-9:50  Welcome and Introductions

9:50-10:40  Panel I

10:40-11:10  Coffee Break

11:10-12:00  Panel II

12:00-1:10  Lunch

1:10-2:30  Panel III

2:30-3:00 Presentation of Certificates and Closing Remarks

We would like to thank the following donors for their generosity to The Rotary Foundation in support of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Conference:
Jennifer Jones and Nicholas Krayacich
Karen Wentz and Ron Appuhn
The Quick Family and the Faust McNees Family Trust