South Carolina's First Rotary World Peace Fellow
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Hiro is the first Rotary World Peace Fellow sponsored by Rotary District 7770 and the first in
"Since my first international experience at age 14, my commitment as a global citizen has always been, through educational exchanges, to confront the core issue of today's global world.culture of violence and conflict. I am honored that the fellowship gives me an opportunity to contribute to addressing this essential issue," says
Hiro plans to be involved in post-conflict community projects sponsored by the United Nations and other international organizations. Eventually, Hiro would like to return to international education and to incorporate his field experience into teaching at the university level.
Hiro is a native of
Course work at the Rotary Centers focuses on preventing and resolving conflict by addressing its root causes ? for example, responding to hunger with food security, disease with health care, illiteracy with education, and poverty with sustainable development. A key component of the program is a degree-related internship or an applied field study which will allow Hiro to put his classroom lessons into practice.
Launched in 2002, this innovative approach to world peace is a graduate-level program aimed at equipping the next generation of government officials, diplomats and humanitarian leaders with skills needed to reduce the threat of war and violence. The Rotary World Peace Fellows are selected every year in a globally competitive process based on their professional, academic and personal achievements. Like the members of the classes preceding them, the 60 students in the 2008-11 class are a diverse group, representing 33 countries and an array of professional and cultural backgrounds.
The six Rotary Centers are located on the campuses of leading universities in five countries: University of Bradford, England; University of Queensland, Australia; International Christian University, Japan; Universidad del Salvador, Argentina; University of California, Berkeley; and -in a shared arrangement- Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
District 7770 Governor, Mary Martin says "This is a first for our district and the State of