Today's speaker was our own Mike Spellman. Mike is a member of The District 5960 Make Peace Visible Initiative which encourages clubs to maximize Rotary as an agent of peace, to intentionally connect club activities with Peacebuilding, and share peace stories within their communities. The members of this team have completed training through the Rotary Positive Peace Academy on the 8 Pillars of peace. These 8 pillars of peace include things like access to health care and education. Mike reviewed work that has been done to evaluate and denote a "peace score" for countries around the world. based on these pillars. The evaluation also looks at everything from outright war to gang activity and other forms of conflict. On the low end of that scoring system are a number of countries in Africa plus Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of the countries on the high end of the peace scoring system are Canada, Portugal and Scandinavian countries. Unfortunately the United States is closer to the low end than the high end.