Spring 2025 Conference |

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

To view the full program for this event, please click here!

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Thank you for attending our 22nd annual spring conference and supporting our Rotary Peace Fellows – we hope you can join us again next year on April 11, 2026 (save the date!).

Below is a list of presentations and panel discussions from this year’s conference – click on the title of each presentation to watch.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Laila Abed, “Digital Divide: How Social Media Fuels Anti-Refugee Sentiment”

Gideon Kapalasa, “Antibiotic Crisis: Shared Solutions for Peaceful Coexistence”

Aleksandra Zaborowska, “The Hidden Price of Your Food: How Food Justice Can Build a More Sustainable and Peaceful Future”

Patrick Asiñero, “From Climate Anxiety to Possibilities: Working With Young People in Communities Amidst Environmental Injustice”

Jacinta Bailey, “Listening to the Land to Deepen Our Roots of Peace”

Haruna Fukaya, “Learning Empathy Through Vulnerability: My Journey Toward Reimagining Peace”

Paola Saldivias Mendez, “Creative Ways for Everyday Peace: Star-ing at Peace Through the Teachings of My Abuelas”

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Panel 1: “Lessons in Peace from Food and Medicine”

Panel 2: “Can Environmental Justice Promote Peace?”

Panel 3: “Internalizing Peace: Reflections on our Journey”

Graduating Fellows – Class 22 (2023-2025)

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

PROGRAM

8:30-9:30 Registration and Class 23 Peace Lab Exhibition

9:30-9:50 Welcome and Introductions
Randy Lickey, Rotary Host Area Coordinator
Marty Helman, Rotary Foundation Trustee
Susan Carroll, Rotary Peace Center Managing Director

9:50-10:20 Laila Abed (Moderated by Jonathan Abels)

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:40 Panel I (Moderated by Suzanne Maman)
Gideon Kapalasa
Aleksandra Zaborowska

11:40-12:30 Panel II (Moderated by Erica Johnson)
Patrick Asiñero
Jacinta Bailey

12:30-1:40 Lunch

1:40-2:30 Panel III (Moderated by Catherine Admay)
Haruna Fukaya
Paola Saldivias Mendez

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

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

Graduating Fellows – Class 22 (2023-2025)

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