Breaking circle of discrimination, soaring higher than expected
Chulalongkorn University, an icon of excellence and focused education. Joining one of the best institutions in Asia and the best in Thailand was a dream coming faster than ever thought. As a young African man growing up in a village full of destructors of development could not allow me think positively about being in an airplane to join this institution. True to my thoughts, it took me...Read More
Forming Our Fellowship
Members of Rotary Peace Fellows cohort 28 are at the end of our second week together in Bangkok. Exploration of the city has included Chinatown, the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s modern transportation system, and the nearby Bangkok Culture and Arts Center. Irene Santiago and Tom Woodhouse invited us into study and dialogue about the history and contemporary state of conflict resolution, the...Read More
First meeting with Rotarians
First week with Rotary Peace Fellows Class 28 was so exciting. There are so many interesting people from all over the world with various backgrounds. Recently on Sunday 19, we had Rotary Orientation at the Ocean Tower, Bangkok. It was such a good opportunity to meet with the Host Counsellors face to face and had in dept discussion with them. Apart from having provided with history, goals,...Read More
Children are the Future
The real future lies in the hands of our children and therefore the first priority of ours should be the nurturing and education of all children on this planet. Every child has the right to be loved and respected, to be seen and heard and to have dreams of a better and peaceful future. I am a creative producer from Icebreaker Productions from Finland and happy to share the...Read More
The built-in mechanisms of 2019 Novel Corona viral conflict
As 2019 Novel Coronavirus is spreading both physically in the region and mentally in the world, it gives us a very good opportunity to take the temperature of modern time’s classic/biological racism. Just to cite a few of them, a French regional newspaper “Le Courrier Picard” titles its front page about the “Yellow Alert”, in reference to the “Yellow Peril”; the paranoid racist fear of the...Read More
I was going to say no for the same reason I then HAD to say yes
We’ve just completed our first week of the Peace Fellowship. And I’m pinching myself, realizing I was almost not here to experience the transformational magic we’ve already received. That’s correct, I was going to refuse this priceless offer. And then, the exact reason I was going to say “no” became the reason I HAD to say “yes.” Let me explain. My whole life,...Read More