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« The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness » Paul Harris
« Le chemin de la guerre est une autoroute bien pavée et le chemin de la paix passe toujours par une nature sauvage. »
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Rotary and Inter-Country Committees (ICC ) didn’t hesitate to commit themselves to peace
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1950 District 74 Congress
Baden-Baden District 70 Congress
Strasbourg
Set up of first ICC France- Germany
and Germany- France
Robert Haussmann (RC Stuttgart)
Roger Coutant (RC Lille)
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1950 ICC France-
Germany
1958 Reconciliation between
France and Germany
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René Cassin
- René Cassin, with 49 rotarians was among those who wrote the United Nations charter (1945)
- René Cassin, one of the 9 who wrote the Human Rights (1948)
Nobel Prize for Peace (1968)
membre fondateur du Rotary Club de Lille (1927)
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ICC organization ICC Executive Committee 35 members
Board 7 members
28 National Coordinators
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Some information on Inter-Country Committees (ICC) ICCs are an initiative of French and German Rotary Clubs after 1939 – 1945 war aiming at:
. Set up international friendship relations
. Promote peace
. Develop fiendship, cultural and professional exchanges
. Strenghten friendship links between Clubs and Districts
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What to do for peace ?
- Health care - Build links among nations - Learn to know each other - Learn to live together - Learn to work together
Each other knowledge make understanding easier.
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Club contacts
•ICC mission Peace promotion through friendship and mutual
understanding :
Set up Contact Clubs Friendship exchanges between nations Begin and build Global Grant Begin and build professional exchanges
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Each other knowledge
New Generations : . Rotary programs . Youth Exchanges . Scholarships
Clubs : . Contacts set up by ICCs.
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350 Inter-Country Committes in the world
are peace ambassadors :
. An ICC ( Inter-Country Committee) is set up between two or more countries
. The two national sections constitute an ICC
. The charter makes the ICC official
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. Each section includs rotarians, Clubs and founding Districts
. ICC sections are structured according to the legal obligations of their countries
. Each rotarian can belong to one or more ICC. The National Coordinator and the ICC President should
be informed
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350 Inter-Country Committes in the world
are peace ambassadors :
The most recent ICC : FRANCE PERU and PERU FRANCE
Charter signing by RI International Président Gary HUANG and RI Vice President Celia CRUZ de GiAY
ICC actions.
Water 20%
Humanitarian 13%
Health 27%
Education 20%
Childhood 20%
ICC are peace promoter through their actions
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Humanitarian actions
After the december 2004 tsunami in Thailand with the participation of many National Inter-Country Committees and Districts
2004-2005 351 houses built in 10 areas
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Action enfance
À titre d’exemple : UN COEUR POUR LA PAIX
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Childhood actions
An example : AN HEART FOR PEACE
Health Action Typhus elimination :
a concrete example in Togo for typhus elimination through water sanitation and toilets installation in 22 villages of Moretan.
French section of France-Togo ICC has set up this humanitairian action and today typhus cases have decreased by more than half.
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Action santé
Hygiène bucco-dentaire : 10.000 brosses à dents CIP FRANCE MAROC et Rotary Clubs marocains et français.
Départ : Présidente RC et les deux Gazelles Conférence de District Agadir
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Oral and dental hygiene: 10,000 toothbrushes
ICC FRANCE-MOROCCO and French and Moroccan Rotary Clubs
Health Action
Start: RC President and the two gazelles District Conference at Agadir
Education Action : scholarships
•Rotary Peace and Confict Resolution centers scolarships
6 centers: Thailand, USA, Japan, Argentine, UK, Australia
• leaders training • master or bachelorship in peace and
confict resolution • 50 for center per year
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Action éducation : les bourses
Justin PEELE
Diplômé des Centres du Rotary
pour la Paix – aujourd'hui au sein du
corps diplomatique américain Photo avec son aimable autorisation
Isis E. Mejias CARPIO Boursière
du Rotary financée par une
subvention mondiale -
Santé et eau Botswana – Ouganda Photo avec son aimable autorisation
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Education Action : scholarships
Justin PEELE
Graduated in the Rotary Centers for
Peace - Today within the US
diplomatic corps Photo published with his gentle permission
Isis E. Mejias CARPIO
Scholarship holder by a Rotary
Matching Grant
Health and Water Botswana - Uganda Photo published with his gentle permission
" One of Rotary’s main successes is the work inter country committees have accomplished towards peace "
" L’un des principaux succès du Rotary est le travail accompli par les C.I.P. en faveur de la paix"
Wilfrid Wilkinson, Pdt R.I. 2007-2008
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" I would even say that if they did not exist, they would have had to be invented"
" Je voudrai même dire que s’ils (les C.I.P.) n’existaient pas, il faudrait les inventer"
Frank J. Devlyn, Pdt R.I. 2000-2001
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One of my objectives 2014 – 2016 :
- Push for new
INTER-COUNTRY
COMMITTEES IN 5 CONTINENTS
- Main driving force for Peace
and worldwide understanding. Gwénaël de BERGEVIN ICC President 2014-2016
www.rotary-icc.org
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