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Shuswap/Okanagan/Thompson PeaceBuilders

Peacebuilders.world is an initiative of the Peace Building Rotary Club of the Rivers and collaborating organizations to enhance positive peace in and between our communities.

Join us

We are community committed to positive peace, healthy conversations, understanding, and service. Guided by Rotary’s motto “Service Above Self” and the Four-Way Test, we strengthen both inner peace and collective peace through grassroots action, personal growth, and social transformation.

Mission

To empower active volunteers in grassroots peacebuilding initiatives that foster social harmony, dismantle barriers, and reduce disharmony. We build community where everyone feels they belong and are valued for who they are and the gifts they bring to the world.

Based in the Thompson-Okanagan-Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada, our club is colourful, youthful, inclusive, diverse, and energetic. We are apolitical and secular, while drawing wisdom from traditions that align with building harmony. Membership is open worldwide through a hybrid format of in-person and online bi-monthly events.

Vision

We envision communities where:

Social harmony and justice replace inequity and division.
People are curious and listen to understand diverse worldviews.
Peace literacy skills are widespre
People build bridges across divides and celebrate diversity.
Grassroots action advances Peace on Earth by 2030.

Feeding children in Gaza - urgent

Salmon Arm Arts Centre - Pride Project

Peace 'n Pizza

Bringing humanity to our society by developing curiosity about other’s world views through story telling and listening in a fun format.

Peace ‘N Pizza is a monthly evening event hosted by First Community and Rotary Peace Builders to hear interesting everyday people’s stories. Structured as a fire-side chat people from all corners of our community will tell their story about who they are and how they got to “Now”.

We will develop new understanding and perspective of different world views, while enjoying pizza and veggies.

Join us the third Friday of each month:

October 17, 2025 at 5:30 pm
First Community
450 Okanagan Ave SE

October 17th: Ian Johnson DDS (Counsellor/Psychotherapist)

November 21st: Colleen Making (Safe Society)

December 19th: Santa Claus (Quaker)

Ethiopian Dinner - 2025 October 18

Grass Roots Harmony Action Project 2026

Take Action

Help build better community

around one or more of these issues:

Homelessness,

Food Insecurity,

Mental Health & Addiction,

Indigenous Reconciliation,

Energy, Climate, and Economy

Sexual Identity,

Immigration & Racism

Your point of view is important

Let’s start by moving forward together.

Join us

Peace/ChangeMaker Gathering – September 20th

Grass Roots Action Development – 2026

Program Detail

Apply here for the Grassroots Harmony Action Project.

Peace Literacy Institute

Join the Peace Game - World Peace by 2030

Join Rotary Action Group for Peace

When you join the Rotary Action Group for Peace, we’ll empower you with the knowledge, ideas, networks, and support you need to help advance peace both in your community and around the globe.

Formed in 2012, the Rotary Action Group for Peace is dedicated to bringing Rotarians, Rotaractors, Peace Fellows, and Peacebuilders together with the common goal of advancing peace around the world. We provide RAGFP members with peace education, workshops, resources, and support to engage, educate, and empower peacebuilders around the world to take action for peace.

If you are not a Rotarian select “Other” on the Application Form. If you wish to join Rotary contact Mike.

Join Rotary Positive Peace Academy

Institute of Economics and Peace Peace Ambassador Program

Gain concrete knowledge and resources to help foster peace.

Created by the Institute for Economics & Peace, the internationally-renowned think tank, the IEP Ambassador Program provides an opportunity for individuals with both extensive experience in peace as well as those new to the field to gain concrete knowledge and resources to help foster peace in their communities.

This includes an in-depth understanding of IEP’s research and methodology, as well as a concrete understanding of how to communicate peace research. This six-week programme is designed to provide you with the information, resources, and tools to understand and communicate innovative peace research and inspire your community.

Currently in its eighth year the IEP Ambassador program provides an opportunity to join current Ambassadors and alumni from all over the world, united in their dedication to tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges – peace.

Learn about peace!

Join us in projects that excite and train individuals to take action in creating harmony in themselves, their family, friends, in the community, nation, and the world.

We collaborate with groups and promote and support their projects to bring people together and reduce divisiveness.

Kindness needs to be everybody’s habit, it’s as easy as smiling and wishing others well. For those of us that need some practice, our
Kindness Finder suggests acts of kindness and receives stories of kindness to be published and shared.