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ROTARY PEACE FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS - APPLY BEFORE MAY 15th
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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PEACE JOURNALISM
WHAT'S REAL? WHAT ISN'T? NEWS IS DESIGNED TO SELL PAPERS, BROADCASTS...EVOKE EMOTION. LEARN HOW TO TELL WHICH NEWS INFORM & WHICH MANIPULATE.
As you read news articles, social media accounts of an event etc., keep in mind the words and how the topics are framed. Are they intended to provide you with facts or are they intended to evoke a response? Peace Journalism is when editors and reporters make choices which are intended to inform without provoking a negative or positive reaction. Peace Journalism, at its best, improves the prospects for peace. These choices, including how to frame stories and carefully choosing which words are used, create an atmosphere conducive to peace and supportive of peace initiatives and peacemakers, without compromising the basic principles of good journalism. (Adapted from Lynch/ McGoldrick, Peace Journalism). Peace Journalism gives peacemakers a voice while making peace initiatives and non-violent solutions more visible and viable.
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Learn more about Peace Journalism from Park University, the first college to offer a minor in Peace Journalism.
Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria face food cuts amid WF
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that potentially life-saving food and nutrition a
The crisis is being exacerbated by the expected early arrival of the lean season – the period between harvests when hunger peaks. Chronic hunger is being driven by conflict, displacement, economic instability and severe climate shocks, WFP said, with devastating floods in 2024 affecting over six million people across West Africa.
MILITARY SPENDING ESCALATES
INCREASED GLOBAL SPENDING ON MILITARIZATION
(Stockholm, 22 April 2024) Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8 per cent in real terms from 2022. This was the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009. The 10 largest spenders in 2023—led by the United States, China and Russia—all increased their military spending, according to new data on global military spending published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), available at www.sipri.org.
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Military spending continues to increase. and take a larger percentage of each country's Global Domestic Product (GDP).
FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES
TRILLION DOLLAR SUBSIDIES FOR FOSIIL FUELS
According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculations, whose latest calculations are available only for the record year of 2022, explicit subsidies - or money spent by governments on undercharging for supply costs - amount to $1.26 trillion. But that makes only up about a fifth of the total amount, which the IMF puts at $7 trillion in 2022 - or 7.1% of global GDP - once the sum of undercharging for environmental costs and forgone tax revenues is taken into account.
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Fossil fuel companies have been in business for more than 100 years and still, they receive subsidies.
CLIMATE CHANGE & MILTARIZATION ON THE ECONOMY
CLIMATE CHANGE, CAPITALISM, & THE MILITARY
The vice-chair of the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock, admitted that in the face of climate change “We have to change capitalism. This is really what’s at stake here.” Global military spending amounted to 1.74 trillion US dollars in 2017,(external link) equivalent to 230 US dollars for every person on earth. [In 2023, $2.443 trillion US dollars].
Through the Lens: A Photo Gallery - Protecting Our Planet from War & The Climate Crisis Starts With You
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