ROTARY Peace Pole creates space for Peace-2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference Istanbul, Türkiye.
Posted: February 20, 2025
Posted: February 20, 2025
Our Peace Committee’s work has no boarders. This photograph as taken by our very own Kathy Futornick at the Peace Pole Dedication at the new Rotary Peace Center at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Rotary International, President-Elect, Stephanie Urchick led the dedication!
Rotary International is instrumental in creating opportunities to promote peace and bring our world together.
We are people of action…together!
Thank you, Kathi for being there!
May Peace Be in Istanbul
May Peace Prevail On Earth
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2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference
Healing in a Divided World
20-22 February 2025
Istanbul, Türkiye
Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center
The 2025 Presidential Peace Conference has reached its full capacity. Tickets are no longer available for purchase.
Led by Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick, the 2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, 20-22 February 2025, with an opportunity for the Rotary community and its partners to build on Rotary’s contributions to promoting peace by exploring:
- Peace in a polarized world
- Technology, media, and peacebuilding
- Environmental issues in peacebuilding
- Making peace last
The conference also recognized the launch of the new Otto and Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center in partnership with Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul.
The three-day conference included keynote speakers, panel discussions, and breakout sessions which highlighted the many ways Rotary members, program participants, partners, and community leaders can advocate for peace; share stories, insights, and ideas about building peace locally and globally; and foster meaningful conversations about promoting peace within our communities and beyond.