We are glad to announce that we are able to hold our Peace Conference, especially after needing to postpone it in October 2021. We are...

I was able to attend the Zoom meeting sponsored by the Leavenworth Rotary Club on Wednesday, February 3, 2022. It was a terrific meeting....

Keokuk Peace Letters (331 p) - How to Shape the Future Today we sense once again that the fundamental values of our communal life are...

Rotary Club of Jerusalem, 1931: "WE LEAVE OUR DIFFERENCES AT THE DOOR" In 1931, US Jewett Fulton, Rotary Club Keokuk, Iowa, grew...

Brief historical overview of Rotarian peace initiatives: Every world peace initiative is given a new and sad urgency in view of the...

Toward a Better Future by Learning from the Past The online magazine “p’review” sets the scene for a Rotary conference concerning...

I am not suggesting that slavery and the Holocaust or the forced removal of Native American peoples are all in the same vein. They are...

The Rotary International theme of Feb. 2021 is "Peace & Conflict Resolution". This is a topic that ties closely into our work with the...

Roger R. Ricketts, Executive Director, Keokuk Area Community Foundation, established the "Keokuk Peace Letters Fund," allowing non-profit...

Originally Published by Germanic ROTARY MAGAZIN, Hamburg – September 2020 In 1931, American Rotarians sought to send a symbol of peace in...

By Sophie Ruehlmann, Germany & John Knox, USA People everywhere are familiar with Rotary International which, since its founding in 1905,...

MOIN - MOIN: Vergangenheitsbewältigung - Conference “dealing with the past” Values in America's Past and Present Peace-Pipe & Conflict...

We are excited about our collaboration -www.PEACE-PIPE-proposal.com- with Rotary Club Johannesburg and “100 Community Mediators for...

A brief description of the project by Annemarie Mostert & Grace van Zyl, Rotary South Africa: Minka & Annemarie Mostert. Grace van Zyl...

A hundred years before the Peace Pipe initiative was started in Keokuk, Iowa, 1931, Edward Hicks painted a picture called The Peaceable...

In 1931, Keokuk Rotarian W.J. Fulton attended the first Rotary International Convention outside North America, at Vienna, Austria. There,...

The Peace Letter Project was featured in the Rotary District 6000 News, 1st Issue 2019-20. June 2nd, 2019: Two HUGE buses arrive in our...

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There are voices now, as in 1931, eager to tell us what to be afraid of and who to blame. “Be afraid! Be afraid!” they say as seeds of...