2026 Rotary Peace Fellows Seminar

“Your Place in Peace” encapsulates both an invitation and a call to action—a collective reflection on each individual’s role in advancing the cause of peace. This year’s Rotary Peace Fellowship Annual Seminar, curated by the Class XXIII Fellows, offers an interactive and deeply personal exploration of how our academic training, applied field experiences, and lived commitments intersect with the foundational pillars of peace architecture: peace-making, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. The seminar allows each Peace Fellow to answer the seminal question during their presentation: Where/what is my place in peace?

This seminar weaves together the experiences of each Peace Fellow to form a cohesive mosaic of global peace practice through their diverse identities, cultures, and aspirations.  The presentation aims to show how the Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland has transformed the Peace Fellow into agents of peace who advance justice, equity, and dignity within communities and institutions. Lastly, each Peace Fellow will explain their goals for peace work and achievement. 

This seminar is more than a retrospective; it is a shared brainstorming space. Through the speakers, interactive sessions, highlights of peace initiatives across culture, and the Peace Fellows presentation, we hope each audience member can discover their role within the peacebuilding mainframe. Whether through advocacy, education, charitable action, or compassionate leadership, participants will explore how they, too, contribute to the global architecture of peace.

Ultimately, Your Place in Peace affirms that peace is not the sole domain of academics, practitioners, or policymakers, but a profoundly human endeavour in which all can participate. As emerging peacebuilders, we display that the Rotary Peace Fellowship is not only an indispensable force in nurturing leadership amid today’s political, social, and humanitarian crises, but anyone can be included to build a more peaceful world.