Rotary’s Role in Peacebuilding

Rotary's Role in Peacebuilding Rotary's Role in Peace-building Empowering youth through education, skills, and opportunity to break the cycle of violence and build lasting peace. Don't raise children to be terrorists raise them to be technicians, builders, and creators. Terrorists are born from hate and ignorance; technicians are shaped by education and hope. One brings destruction, the other builds a better world. Teach them to heal, not harm. The future depends on what we teach today. Rotary has long stood as a symbol of service, peace, and progress. In a world increasingly torn apart by conflict, extremism, and inequality, the responsibility to guide the next generation has never been more urgent. Terrorism doesn't begin with weapons it begins with hopelessness, with children left behind in broken systems, with minds starved of opportunity and hearts filled with fear. Rotary can help break this cycle. By investing in education, vocational training, and youth empowerment programs, we can give young people the tools not just to survive, but to contribute meaningfully to their communities. Let's turn potential into purpose by building tech labs instead of training camps, promoting critical thinking instead of biind hatred, and mentoring future engineers, doctors, and entrepreneurs instead of leaving youth vulnerable to radicalization. This is where Rotary s ethos shines through "Service Above Self" is not just a motto; itis a movement. Every act of education, every opportunity offered, every skill shared is a way to Do Good in the World. Let us create peace by creating pathways Tfor knowledge, for skill, for hope. This is not just charity it is prevention. This is not just service it is transformation. Rotary has the reach. It also has the heart. Rotary is a Gift to the World, and through it, we can be the reason a child chooses to build bridges rather than blow them up.