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Each year, Rotary awards up to 130 fully funded fellowships for dedicated leaders from around the world to study at one of Rotary's 7 peace centers. Rotary is now accepting applications for 2026 Rotary Peace Fellowships! We hope you will join us in promoting the peace fellowship opportunity within your communities and enlisting the help of club members across your district to find qualified candidates. The application will be open until 15 May 2025, and interested candidates can apply through https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/peace-fellowships
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POLITICAL UNREST: THE ROLE OF THE HIGH TECH BILLIONAIRES
There is no simple answer for “what leads to political unrest” and violence. Social injustices, political oppression, economic inequalities are commonly referenced but how do these conditions come about? Sometimes it is through government corruption and business interests playing a larger than life role in the shaping of laws and policies; exploitation of natural resources; extreme poverty; shadow governments supporting militias. One area which has received little attention, until recently, is the role of billionaires and their zeal for “more”. Some billionaires have a vision for a new world order where the world is divided into “fiefdoms” and each run by a billionaire with absolute rule. There are snippets of what our future may look like occurring right now, if we look more closely at Honduras, the proposed Mediterranean city of Praxis, and Greenland? Within the fiefdoms in Honduras, businesses operate unimpeded, indigenous populations displaced and deprived of their rights, and for a while, Honduras could no longer exercise their own laws within these fiefdoms or ZEDES. In 2022, however, with a new president, the ZEDES were banned, which is now the subject of a lawsuit against the government of Honduras. The goal -- bankrupt Honduras and return the former president to power (or someone like him) who permitted the establishment of the ZEDES and allowed billionaires absolute power within their ZEDES. Social injustice, political oppression, economic inequality all rolled into the worst type of predatory capitalism and an imperialist mindset of the great white hope. Learn about the Latin America Working Group (LWG) and their efforts to support indigenous populations and promote peace.
Graphic courtesy of
Latin America Working Group