Economics of Disaster: Alcohol & Drug Abuse within Society’s Youth
The disease that is more disastrous than Ebola, TB, and HIV/AIDS combined in the world today is alcohol and the drug abuse (ADA). This is the plague that is going … Continue reading
Peace: Our Present, Our Future
The Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University continues to offer its best to bring us Rotary Peace Fellows to reflect better ways of making a happier society, a society that … Continue reading
Papua Land of Peace
Papua is both a beautiful and exotic Island. It is named as “a piece of heaven on earth”. Not surprisingly, Raja Ampat in Papua is called as “the last paradise … Continue reading
Conflict, Conflict Everywhere
Conflict, conflict everywhere Where is Peace? Nowhere to be found Water, water everywhere Where is the thirst that cannot be quenched? Food, food everywhere But everyone is hungry and nothing … Continue reading
A Life Altering Experience
As one who has never flown outside my country, everything is new. It was a lesson for me. After having the message that I was selected to this course I … Continue reading
Chula Musings
It is almost one and half months that we 22 from four subcontinents have been living here at CU I House on the same floor. Ms. Wendy, my neighbor hears … Continue reading
Success or Failure? Who Knows?
The Christian-Muslim conflict has wrought the Philippines for almost half a century. With the crafting of the Comprehensive Agreement of the Bangsamoro (CAB) in 2014, the government was pinning its … Continue reading
Village Encounters in Northeast Thailand
Our second field study day in Ubon Ratchathani, the Rotary Peace Fellows visited Boomsaraol Village. At Boomsaraol Village, my group stopped by a shaded platform where the village grandmothers were … Continue reading
Social Memory & the Emerald Triangle
Just when we’d gotten used to the 5 a.m. whistles, the stray dogs, the chaotic sounds of traffic, daily sawadeekas to the guards, the local seamstress, and our neighbouring fruit … Continue reading