CLIMATE CHANGE & MILITARIZATION - UPLOADED UNDER PRESENTATIONS
Helen Peacock, Founding Member
Peace Advocate, Pivot2Peace Founder, Board member of Rotary Action Group for Peace
Helen has presented on the topic of World Peace to groups around the world including Russia, China, India, Australia, Europe, and North America. She is on the Board of the Rotary Action Group for Peace (RAGFP), and was instrumental in creating the online Ending War 101 Educational Program. In 2022 and 2023, she served as a Civil Society Observer for RAGFP at meetings at the United Nations. And for two years, as D7010 Peace Chair, she led a grassroots movement in Rotary to support a Resolution for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Helen is also a Positive Peace Ambassador for the Institute of Economics and Peace, and a Chapter Coordinator for World Beyond War.
Barbara Gaughen Muller, Founding Member
United Nations Association, Rotary Action Group for Peace
Barbara Gaughen-Muller, is a global citizen and activist who focuses her work on bringing peace to her community, her country and our world. She has devoted her life to creating a better world as a peacemaker, an author, and motivational speaker, radio show host, a visionary leader and Creator-Host of PeacePodcast.org. As the co-founder and past President of the Rotary E Club of World Peace. www.RotaryeClubofWorldPeace.org. She helped orchestrate the first Rotary World Peace Conference in 2016 and her interviews with 75 conference peace speakers are available on line at www.peaceconference2016.org. She just celebrated her 155th Peace Podcast and was a speaker at the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, in New York, where she received the Spirit of the United Nations award. Barbara’s late husband and partner Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, and she co-authored “7500 Ideas for a Better World”, shared on www.GoodMorningWorld.org in 5 languages.
Mike Caruso, Member
Rotary District 5100 Past District Governor
Mike joined the Newberg noon Rotary club in 2001. Mike is the founder of Rotary Peacebuilder Clubs, founded in 2011, in District 5100 and now established in over 550 Rotary Clubs around the world and growing. Mike has also participated in the Rotary Foundation's Major Matching Grant process and helped organize ten hands-on projects sponsored by the Rotary Club of Newberg in Guatemala. He served as District Governor in District 5100 during the 2011-12 Rotary year and served for 11 years as the District Rotary Peace Fellowships Sub-Committee Chair and is Co-Chair of District 5100 Peacebuilder Clubs committee. Mike is the recipient of the Rotary International Service Above Self award as well as the Citation for Meritorious Service. In addition to Guatemala, he has travelled on Rotary business and/or projects to Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, and Lebanon.
Phill Gittins PhD, Member
Phill Gittins, PhD is the Education Director for World BEYOND War .
Phill Gittins, PhD, is World BEYOND War’s Education Director. Phill has over 20 years of leadership, programming, and analysis experience in the areas of peace, education, psychology, youth, and community development. He has lived, worked, and travelled in over 60 countries across 6 continents; taught in schools, colleges, and universities around the world; and trained thousands on peace and social change-related issues. Other experience includes work in youth offending prisons; developing, launching, and overseeing a wide range of large and small-scale programmes and projects; as well as consultancy assignments for public, private, and non-profit organisations. Phill has received multiple awards for his work, including a Rotary Peace Fellowship, KAICIID Fellowship, and Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace. He is also a Positive Peace Activator and Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. d social change-related issues. Phill can be reached at phill@worldbeyondwar.org.
Richard Denton MD, Member
Richard Denton, BSc, MClSc, MD Emeritus, Rotary Past District Governor, Former Mayor of Kirkland Lake, Assoc. Professor of Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. I am interested in educating about our military culture to create a culture of peace instead. I am working to invest not in the military and nuclear weapons but in health and education. Our military is a large user of fossil fuels and a producer of Greenhouse Gases and therefore destroying our environment. We need to go from MutuallyAssured Destruction - MAD to MutuallyAssured Survival.
Jec Borlado, Member
Past President, Rotary Club of Jaro-Centraline Rotary District 3850
Jec has grown up in the midst of a civil war between the world's governing philosophies.
Equipped with international ecumenical leadership experience and American-Philippine Baptist influences, He has sought to seek and pursue peace while he grows in his discipleship to Jesus Christ.
Jec is a member of the Ending War 101 core group, which he became acquainted with via online courses with World Beyond War. He represented this group during the RI Convention in Singapore, May of 2024, inviting everyone to take the online course at the Peace Park, co-presentation on the Global Peace Index, and some community singing in the Hall of Friendship.
As a Youth Commissioner (2008-2013) of the World Council of Churches, Jec participated in the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, Kingston, Jamaica 2011, he then became an Ecumenical Accompanier based in East Jerusalem with the EAPPI program that accompanies the plight of the Palestinian and Israeli people.
Jec has been trained in conflict transformation and human rights. He also has a Positive Peace Academy certificate and a Level 2 Pickleball Coach certificate from Pickleball Global Academy. Currently, he is based in Iloilo. He volunteers his time with the THRIVE Project as a remote Team Assistant helping the planet with what matters most- our thrivability beyond sustainability.
Andrew Stone, Member
Rotary Peace Fellow, Member
For three decades overall and 15 years in SE Asia Andrew Stone has studied and worked internationally at the intersection of ecology, place, culture, community, and economy. Andrew works with local and regional organizations in collaborative relationships. He has formal education in systems ecology, water conflict management and transformation, social science for sustainable development, and is a 2020 Rotary Peace Fellow alumnus from Chulalongkorn Peace Center in Bangkok, Thailand.
Tom Baker, Member
Rotary Peace Activator, Global Team Member for the Peace Education and Action for Impact Program
Tom Baker has 40 years of experience as a teacher and school leader in Idaho, Washington State, and internationally in Finland, Tanzania, Thailand, Norway, and Egypt, where he was Deputy Head of School at International School Bangkok and Head of School at Oslo International School in Oslo, Norway and Schutz American School in Alexandria, Egypt.
Tom is passionate about youth leadership development, peace education, and service learning. A Rotarian since 2014 in Golden, Colorado and Alexandria, Egypt, he has served as his club’s President, International Service Committee Chair, Youth Exchange Officer, and a member of the District 5450 Peace Committee and the Rotary Action Group for Peace. He is also a Rotary Positive Peace Activator and a Global Team Member for the Peace Education and Action for Impact Program and the online course, Ending War 101: Making Peace Possible.
Steve Schmidt, Member
Rotarian, Peace Builder,
Steve is a Board member of the Rotary Club of Hood River in Oregon. He led their efforts in becoming one of the world’s first fifteen Peacebuilder Clubs, and currently chairs their Peacebuilding Committee. They work on introducing all to entities exploring pathways to real peace, such as World Beyond War, the Institute of Economics and Peace, and Ending War 101. Both Steve and the Hood River Rotary are members of the Rotary Action Group for Peace, and help fulfill the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in many languages including American Sign Language, Braille, and Native American Kikscht on peace poles they install throughout their area. Utilizing a background of 25 years in the Boy Scouts of America and Big Brothers/ Big Sisters, a youth Rotary group called Interact was formed and is already involved in an international dialogue with an Interact Club in Turkeye. They also participate and support the local Peace Village.
Reem Ghuain, Member
Rotary Peace Fellow, Fields of Peace Executive Director
Reem Ghunaim is a leader in peace-building and social impact, serving as the Executive Director of Fields of Peace. With a commitment to global peace, Reem has been entrusted with evolving the organization's mission to inspire and drive a global peace-building movement, particularly focusing on children affected by conflict.
Reem spearheads the Generation Peace Program, emphasizing cultural exchange, citizen diplomacy, and positive peace principles to address peace inequality and promote global solidarity. By connecting children from conflict-affected and peaceful regions, it not only fosters cross-border friendships and mutual understanding but also educates American children about US foreign policy and its impact on their friends in conflict zones, fostering awareness and engagement.
Firoz Peera, Member
World Affairs Council
Firoz Peera is board member and past chair of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte. He grew up in East Africa (Zanzibar & Kenya), completed high school in England, college in Scotland and received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University. After an extensive corporate career in England, Belgium and the US, he is now actively engaged in local and international public service initiatives.
Kathi Futornick, Member
Peace Builder, Rotarian, Environmental Scientist
Kathi Futornick is currently a co-producer of webinars on climate change, renewable energy, and the electric power grid as well as a researcher on the contributors to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and climate change including the role of the global military. During her nearly 40 years of experience in the environmental field, she has worked in environmental compliance for regulatory agencies, as an environmental consultant for a broad range of industries, and directly for industries as an environmental manager and safety officer. Kathi has also taught classes on environmental compliance, climate science and renewable energy and for12 years served on her local Search & Rescue Team.
AnWarul Chowdhury, Founding Member
Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
H.E. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury has devoted his career to champion sustainable peace and a culture of peace. As a career diplomat, Permanent Representative to United Nations, President of the UN Security Council, President of UNICEF Board, UN Under-Secretary-General, the Senior Special Advisor to the UN General Assembly President, he has received numerous awards including the U Thant Peace Award, UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace, Spirit of the UN Award, University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor’s Medal for Global Leadership for Peace, 2018 Global Women’s Peace Award, 2020 Robert Muller World Peace Prize for UN Global Peace Leader, and in 2021 the inaugural Soka Global Citizen Award, for his life’s work and achievements for peace, women’s rights and equality, and for the cause of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged nations.
Douglas Roche, Founding Member
Canadian author, parliamentarian, diplomat and peace activist
The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., is a former Canadian Senator, parliamentarian, diplomat and author. He is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Middle Powers Initiative, an international network of eight international non-governmental organizations specializing in nuclear disarmament issues. In 2010, the City of Hiroshima named him an Honorary Citizen for his extensive nuclear disarmament work and particularly for founding the Middle Powers Initiative. Mr. Roche has been a Canadian Senator, Member of Parliament, and Ambassador for Disarmament, and also a Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee at the 43rd General Assembly in 1988 and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has authored 20 books including How We Stopped Loving the Bomb (Lorimer, 2011), his memoirs: Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace (Novalis, 2008), and The Human Right to Peace (Novalis, 2003) and The United Nations in the 21st Century (Lorimer, 2015).
JULIE JOHNSTON, Founding Member
GreenHeart Education, Associate, Climate Emergency Institute,
Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Adult Educator, and former Coordinator of Environment and Sustainability Programs at an independent boys' school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Julie started out as a French as a Second Language teacher, morphing into environmental education when she found her activist voice to save a beloved river (the Nechako, in central British Columbia). Transformative sustainability education is now her focus. She had the opportunity to present environmental education workshops in Canada, India, Thailand, the Philippines, and online. Her workshop, Greening the Heart of Education, has been presented to teachers in Ethiopia. She has also worked with educators in Malaysia, the USA, and Kenya where she helped with the permaculture school garden program for Kasanga Girls School.
PETER CARTER, Founding Member
Climate Emergency Institute
Peter is a retired doctor, after nearly 40 years in practice as a family physician, first in England and then in Newfoundland and British Columbia, Canada. When his sons were born, he became actively involved in environmental, peace, and sustainable development issues, especially as they relate to children's health. Fatherhood created that urge to leave the world a better place as a legacy for his children. Peter was part of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War -IPPNW, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. As a founding director of CAPE - Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Peter has presented on sustainable development and environmental health policy issues in Canada and the United States. Peter has since launched the Climate Emergency Institute and is the force behind Climate Change Emergency Medical Response for healthcare professionals. Peter is also an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC 2014, 2018, and the co-author with Elizabeth Woodworth of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival, with Clarity Press. Learn More at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg2-YnL1Ke4..
SanDY Hinden, Founding Member
Coordinator, Organizer, Author, Adult Educator
Sandy's life is spent working for world peace, including mutually assured survival that includes ending the war on nature and making peace with nature. He is an educator, administrator and creative developer for peace, nature and humanity. Sandy provides programs for libraries and organizations in person and on Zoom in personal development, communications and relationships, and social and global development for peace and sustainability. He is author of 7 Keys to Love – Opening Love’s Door to Joy & Wellbeing. He initiated the Concert for the Earth with Paul Winter for the UN Environment Program held in the United Nations General Assembly on World Environment Day, June 5th, 1984. He created Commonwealth for Earth & Humanity in 2014, proposing 10% global military reductions. Learn More at https://wisocracy.org/sandy-hinden