​While there is a significant emphasis on data, too often their significance is incomprehensible, or even lost, in the absence of a narrative of why they matter. In this session, award-winning journalist and communications consultant Priyanka Borpujari will share the tools on how to tell better stories. The workshop will also cover tips on how to share stories effectively to a wider audience.
Participants are encouraged to bring in a 100-word summary of a specific project that they would like to develop into a story that could be shared with news media and to develop traction on social media.

​Featuring:

​Priyanka Borpujari is a widely published, award-winning journalist reporting on issues of human rights across India, El Salvador, Indonesia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina and Japan. She also covered business in the Indian capital of New Delhi, and crime for Mumbai Mirror, including the 26/11 terrorist attacks. She was named the 2012-13 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow for her journalism on the forceful acquisition of land owned by Indigenous peoples. In 2015, she was one of the India-Germany Media Ambassadors, and a guest journalist with the German political weekly Die Zeit. In early 2016, she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York where she taught a course on media and human rights. She has a wide experience of conducting writing-for-healing workshops: from an informal settlement in Cape Town, to a men's prison in Rochester. NY. She was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the International Christian University. She is currently pursuing her PhD, researching the intersection of gender, ageing and social media. She is one of the co-chairs of the 3rd 24-hour Global Peace Conference.

​Moderator:

​Elaheh Pooyandeh is a Rotary Peace Fellow alumni of University of Bradford (2018-2019) with masters degree in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. Her area of work and interest includes peace education, development, chemical weapons disarmament and gender equality. She currently works as a freelancer in peace education and development in Iran.

​Interpreters:

​Mayuree Pandit has been deeply interested and engaged in collective healing & peace work, integrating spiritual, nature and body based work, social change and the arts, gender and sexuality; and living holistically and learning from indigenous wisdom. She is an active member of the Creators of Peace community in India and a facilitator of Peace Circles. Being conversant in Hindi and English, she has also played the role of an Interpreter for conferences, workshops, as well as Good Pitch (documentary film event). At this conference, she is interpreting from English to Hindi.

​Saeed Pourreza is a broadcast journalist and freelance interpreter based in London. His interpreting experience includes translating at multiple international gatherings in Iran over the years such as those at the Tehran Peace Museum, Pardis Technology Park, and Sharif University of Technology, covering such topics as peace building and conflict resolution, venture capital investments, and talent management. As a broadcaster, he presented live political news for Iran's PRESS TV at its headquarters in Tehran, until the start of the Syria war in 2011. For the next few years, He has produced a few shows and has done voice-overs. In 2018, he moved to London where he now works as the UK correspondent for PRESS TV. At this conference, he is interpreting from English to Farsi.

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​2023 GLOBAL PEACE CONFERENCE (GPC-3): Over 24 hours of peace talks, skills-based workshops and networking

​​Do you care deeply about your community and looking for ideas to bring about positive change?

​​​Join us on 4 March 2023 for the third 24-hour online Global Peace Conference: an exciting, interactive convergence of thought-provokers, peacebuilders and everyday people building peace in their spheres of influence. 

​CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL AGENDA

​​The theme of this year’s conference is “Strengthening Our Peacebuilding Community”. This theme is an extension of our desire to connect our planet with people power, towards a peaceful and just existence for all. This year’s 24-hour conference has programming in four global geographical regions, with plenaries and skill-building sessions, covering all time zones across the globe and enabling anyone, anywhere, to participate.

​​This volunteer-led initiative of Rotary Peace Fellows and other members of the broader Rotary peace ecosystem is based on the premise that everyone has the power to change the world. We work in civil society, academia, and government. We work in conflict resolution, sustainable development, and business. We are change makers in our community wherever we are based across the globe, and have a passion to transform conflict into growth and potential.​

​​This 24-hour Global Peace Conference is not a typical academic conference or business networking opportunity. Our value is in dialogue and in collaboration, so everyone—YOU included—has a part to play in making our conference meaningful. 

​​The event will feature:

• ​​Local peacebuilders from all over the world

• ​​Interactive sessions at all time zones

• ​​Ample opportunity for training and networking

​Join us by registering above! The conference is free of charge thanks to the generosity of volunteers and donors from the Rotary peace community, including Carol Fellows and Tim Bewley. The Red Dot Foundation also provided technical support to realize this session.

​If you would like to make a donation to help keep future conferences free and inclusive, please click here. Thank you for your support!

​WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS AFTER THE CONFERENCE?

​During the inclusive, open planning meetings to prepare for the conference, it was decided to develop a conference declaration setting out positive peace as a unifying concept to unite Rotary Peace Fellows, other peacebuilders, and the Rotary family. The goal is also to articulate a vision for the conference as a vehicle to strengthen the Rotary peace ecosystem and to build relationships with and elevate grassroots peaceubilders. Please provide feedback on the draft conference declaration:

​COMMENT ON THE DRAFT HERE

​Thank you for your constructive input!