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Joachim Reppmann
Sep 14, 20241 min read
INVITE: Paris Peace Conference, Feb. 1 '25:
"We have Jews and equally strong Anti-Zionistic Arabs in our Rotary Club. We are a living 'Pipe of Peace' always being smoked."...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jun 20, 20233 min read
Timeless Spirit of the Peace Pipe: Rotary is needed!
By Rtn. Anthony Conn — www.KeokukPeaceLetters.com To Native Americans the Peace Pipe* is offered to uphold and affirm agreements and...
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Joachim Reppmann
Dec 27, 20221 min read
Wishing you all the best in 2023!—Along with an invite for you to consider.
On January 2, 2023 we will welcome Frank Bures to our house in Northfield. Bures is a first-rate writer whose 2016 publication The...
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Joachim Reppmann
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Invitation to RC Northfield, Minnesota, Centennial Celebration 2025 (Teaser)
https://www.moin-moin.us https://www.keokukpeaceletters.com You are invited to celebrate 100 years of Northfield Rotary in 2025. More...
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Joachim Reppmann
Nov 10, 20221 min read
Conference Report by Matthias Schütt, RC Ratzeburg- Alte Salzstraße
Democracy under Fire —The Rotary Keokuk Peace Pipe Letters, 1931-2031, title of an International Rotary Work Conference, May 23-27, 2022...
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Joachim Reppmann
Nov 8, 20221 min read
"Give Peace a Chance"
Even though Rotary "peace projects" have always been a matter close to my heart, I am able to focus on this first pillar of Rotary...
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Joachim Reppmann
Nov 7, 20221 min read
Peace-Days@German-School by RAGFP
Christoph Steiniger developed a peace education concept for the German Chapter of the Rotary Action Group for Peace (RAGFP): "We can give...
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Joachim Reppmann
Sep 18, 20221 min read
CHAPEAU & KUDOS:
September 17, 2022, Rotary's next world president, 2023/4, charismatic Gordon Mcinally, (ri.), impressed us with his detailed knowledge...
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Joachim Reppmann
Sep 13, 20221 min read
Morality and History in Keokuk, Iowa 1832 to 1932:
Independent Study by Charles Cogan, MA, RC Northfield, MN I like the tone and voice you strike and it’s great to have more people know...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jan 4, 20221 min read
1932-2022: Nationalism - Then & Now
Keokuk Peace Letters (331 p) - How to Shape the Future Today we sense once again that the fundamental values of our communal life are...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jan 3, 20221 min read
RC-Jerusalem, Christmas 1931: "We leave our differences at the door!"
Rotary Club of Jerusalem, 1931: "WE LEAVE OUR DIFFERENCES AT THE DOOR" In 1931, US Jewett Fulton, Rotary Club Keokuk, Iowa, grew...
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Joachim Reppmann
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Zoom Talk by Sabine Schwachula, PhD, Rotary E-Club Cologne, Germany, August 30, 2021
Brief historical overview of Rotarian peace initiatives: Every world peace initiative is given a new and sad urgency in view of the...
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Joachim Reppmann
Oct 13, 20201 min read
Keokuk Area Community Foundation
Roger R. Ricketts, Executive Director, Keokuk Area Community Foundation, established the "Keokuk Peace Letters Fund," allowing non-profit...
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Joachim Reppmann
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Rotary and its Enthusiasm for Peace: www.PeaceConference.us
Originally Published by Germanic ROTARY MAGAZIN, Hamburg – September 2020 In 1931, American Rotarians sought to send a symbol of peace in...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jul 17, 20201 min read
International Peace Lette Rotaract eClub
By Sophie Ruehlmann, Germany & John Knox, USA People everywhere are familiar with Rotary International which, since its founding in 1905,...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jul 4, 20201 min read
RC Johannesburg & PEACE & CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We are excited about our collaboration -www.PEACE-PIPE-proposal.com- with Rotary Club Johannesburg and “100 Community Mediators for...
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Joachim Reppmann
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Rotary Mediation Action for Southern Africa (RMASA)
A brief description of the project by Annemarie Mostert & Grace van Zyl, Rotary South Africa: Minka & Annemarie Mostert. Grace van Zyl...
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Joachim Reppmann
Dec 10, 20193 min read
The Peaceable Kingdom, 1834 & Jerusalem, 1931/2020
A hundred years before the Peace Pipe initiative was started in Keokuk, Iowa, 1931, Edward Hicks painted a picture called The Peaceable...
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Joachim Reppmann
May 18, 20194 min read
Bill Tubbs: Choosing Hope, not Fear
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...
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Joachim Reppmann
Apr 9, 20191 min read
"Letters of peace from 1931" in: North Scott Press by Bill Tubbs (March 27th, 2019)
Last week my friend in Rotary from Keokuk, Tony Conn, gave me a book that he and others have compiled of 596 letters initiated by Keokuk...
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