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We sit down with Jacob Kirchner, senior strategic advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Washington, DC, to unpack what neutral humanitarian work really looks like in modern wars. We connect the ICRC’s principles and legal mandate to overlooked crises like Sudan and to the human need for dignity, closure, and peace.
• Jacob’s path from Rotary World Peace Fellow to the ICRC
• What the ICRC does that most people never see, including forensics and support for dignified burials
• How the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is structured across national societies, the federation, and the ICRC
• Why neutrality, impartiality, and independence shape every decision
• How the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law guide the work
• Sudan’s conflict, mass displacement, and the real meaning of the cost of inaction
• Other urgent crises that rarely stay in the headlines
• How the ICRC works around sensitive perceptions while staying transparent
• Visiting prisoners of war and helping resolve missing-person cases over decades
• How helpers keep going, finding purpose and solidarity in difficult work
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APRIL ENCORE SHOW: Can we find Peace though music? Can we find understanding? Can music be a bridge to understanding the world we live in...why not. This week meet Rotarian Peace Fellow Diego Carneiro,as we ask some of these questions and more.

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Soccer becomes a practical pathway to peace when we pair skills training with family-focused lessons on respect, safety, and belonging. Ron and Marcos share how a “Soccer Plus” model that began in 1994 now scales through Rotary to serve kids from Cabo San Lucas to communities across Africa.

• defining Harmony Through Soccer as peace building through football
• tracing the origin story from Boy Scouts outreach in 1994
• using soccer as a universal entryway into families and communities
• combining a skills clinic with social emotional learning and parent engagement
• focusing on anti-bullying, gang prevention, good citizenship, and healthy families
• connecting the program to Rotary’s Four-Way Test and areas of focus
• designing a model that is inclusive, local, measurable, and easy to replicate
• planning partnerships, funding paths, and safe delivery with youth protection

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