Spring 2026 Conference

Saturday, April 11, 2026
7:45AM – 3:30PM
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

• Mohammed Fakhry, “Dying from Distance: Health Equity on North Carolina’s Farms”
• Tibeb Asfaw, “Peace Was Late: We Show Up When the Story is Already Written”
• Oliver Ebwor, “Advancing Conservation for Peaceful Coexistence”
• Hanan Abafita, “One Health for Peace: A Systems Approach to Peace and Stability”
• Rory Newbery, “How We Gather, and Why It Matters”
• Nishchhal Kharal, “Why Artivism Works: Closing the Creative and Strategic Gaps in Social Movements”
• Debby Karemera, “Justice Under the Tree: Gacaca Courts and Community-Based Peacebuilding in Rwanda”
• Khaled Shaath, “Coding for Peace: Rebuilding Hope from Gaza”
• Sharmeen Indorewala, “Healing (In)justice: Beyond Secondary Prisonization of Partners in Incarceration”
• Abdulhafiz Kedir, “The First Circle of Peace: Healing the Peacebuilder from the Family Up”
• Priskila Arulpragasam, “Stories in Fabric: Healing, Resilience, and Peacebuilding through Art Together”
• Lilian Vogt, “Social Capoeira: Rebuilding the Circle Around Children Affected by Armed Conflict”

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

• Panel 1: “Changing the Narrative”
• Panel 2:  “Empowering the Communities”
• Panel 3: “Healing the Injured”

Graduating Fellows – Class 23 (2024-2026)

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