Symposium for Peace 2026
It is built in spaces where women and men from different cultures are willing to come together, listen to one another, and seek out what unites them rather than what divides them. The French language is one such space.
Depuis toujours, notre club s’engage pour pour la promotion de la paix à travers l’organisation d’opportunités de dialogue entre des personnes de toutes origines, cultures, et religions.
Cette année, et pour la troisième fois, nous avons activement contribué à l’organisation du Symposium pour la Paix.
La première fois en 2022, en tant qu’événement de district, la deuxième fois en 2025, aux côtés des clubs d’Antony-Sceaux et Paris Académies, et à nouveau cette année avec l’Rotary Club for the Francophonie et plusieurs autres clubs parisiens. Et pour la troisième fois, nous avons presque fait salle comble.
Cette troisième édition réunissait en deux tables rondes des ambassadeurs de multiples pays et des personnalités engagées autour d’une réflexion sur la francophonie, vecteur de paix. Des échanges de haut niveau, qui ont été agrémentés par des intermèdes musicaux avec une harpiste, une pianiste et une chanteuse lyrique.
Vous retrouverez prochainement sur cette page un compte-rendu complet de l’événement et des échanges.
Nous vous proposons en attendant de revivre la soirée à travers l’album photo complet :
Discover the speakers
Round table 1 - Language, culture, and diplomacy
Yasmine Saada
Business Affairs Lawyer - Canal+
S.E. Arnoldas Pranckevičius
Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to France
S.E. Louino Volcy
Ambassadeur de Haïti en France
S.E. Émile Ngoy Kasongo
Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to France
Franck Lesueur
Chairman, Skylar | Consultant on international strategy, economic diplomacy, and intercultural dialogue
Round table 2 - Youth and education
Cyril Noirtin
Deputy Director General of ISC Paris | Dean of the Rotary Representatives Network | Rotary Representative to UNESCO and the OECD
S.E. Michel Frédéric Joro Rabemahefa
Ambassador of Madagascar to France
Aziza El Boukhari
Officer in Charge of Multilateral Affairs at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in France
Yasmina Asrarguis
Founder & CEO of Concordia Advisory | Geopolitical and Middle East Expert | Formerly with diplomatic offices at the UN, UNESCO, and the Élysée Palace
Anatol Urecheanu
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Moldova in France
The artists
Charlotte Badoc
Trained at the Conservatoire à rayonnement Intercommunal du Kremlin-Bicêtre by Myriam Serfass, Charlotte has nurtured a passion for music and the harp since she was 6 years old.
She helped found the HarpoMélusine association and has performed with them at the Annecy Festival and even at the 2022 World Harp Congress in Cardiff. Charlotte practices and hones her skills on the Celtic harp, and enjoys adapting pieces not originally intended for it, breaking down the expectations and limitations associated with the Celtic harp.
While pursuing a parallel career in scientific research in the field of cognitive science, she combines her professional and personal interests by exploring topics related to the acoustic environment, such as psychoacoustics and the use of music to treat neurological disorders. This has also led her to perform at the closing ceremony of the Cognitive Science Forum in Nice in 2025.
Mylène Alexis-Garel
She was introduced to music at a very young age in Guadeloupe by her father and Jenny Albanèse-Grand, and made her debut as a soloist at the Pointe-à-Pitre Center for Arts and Culture, with support from the Alliance des Arts and the DRAC. Trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under teachers including Antonio Ruiz-Pipo, André Gorog, and Marc Poujol, she went on to further her studies with Hacène Larbi and Jérôme Granjon.
A unanimous First Prize winner in piano, a laureate of national competitions, and the holder of a DEA in musicology from the Sorbonne, she performs in France and the United States as a soloist and chamber musician.
In addition to her work as a concert performer and teacher at conservatories in Paris and the Île-de-France region, she is writing a dissertation on Creole musical aesthetics.
Leïla Bredent
Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, lyric soprano Leïla Brédent earned degrees in musicology and opera singing from the CRR in Poitiers, after working with Molière Athalys and refining her art under the guidance of Grace Bumbry, Barbara Hendricks, and June Anderson.
She has performed in France and internationally, notably in New York, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Martinique, and on the set of France 2’s *Le Grand Échiquier*.
A gold medalist at the 3rd Berliner International Music Competition in 2019 and recipient of the “Venus of Success” award in 2022, she has also performed with several orchestras.
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