Peace Talks Radio
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA monthly series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Stories that inform, inspire and improve the human condition.
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Gun Violence Prevention
May 22, 2024 15:27 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore solutions to gun violence in the U.S. from three perspectives - academic, policy and on the streets. Since 2020 firearms have been the leading cause of death in the US for youth. One of the most promising models to address gun violence is Community Violence Intervention (CVI). CVI programs use a localized approach, identify those who are at the highest risk and work to reduce violence through targeted interventions and peer outreach. Emily Co...
Seeking Peace Through Intergenerational Connection
May 02, 2024 17:17 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesIn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Julia Joubert explores intergenerationl connection. Studies have shown that at least six distinct generations currently live side by side in the United States, and there are almost equal numbers of people of every age alive today. To put that into perspective, we have the same number of people who are seven years old as 70. Yet, while we might be the most age diverse we have ever been, age segregation is also at an all time high. Rapid c...
Making Peace with Body Image
May 02, 2024 17:15 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio we explore peace and equality in body image. For centuries we have placed significant importance on beauty and body image. Society, media and pop culture often shape these views and set the standards by which we compare ourselves. But these standards are often exclusionary and unrealistic. A 2021 review by Psychologica Belgica suggests that rejecting beauty ideals, placing less value on appearance, and appreciating one’s body can contribute to a positive b...
Bridging Political Divisions
February 26, 2024 13:45 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or with elected officials, but that it is affecting our relationships with family members, neighbors, and coworkers. This program features voices from people working to mend this division and gives listeners tips to how ask “curious questions” to help find common ground. Emily Cohen speaks with Monica Guzman from Braver Angels, Alyson Spery from Stor...
Negotiating Towards Peace: To Release Hostages or Manage Our Daily Lives
January 23, 2024 18:06 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at hostage negotiations. From criminal kidnappings to political pawns, hostage taking is a tragic business that captivates news readers and fills the plots of thrillers, and - as we've seen recently - it's often a core element between nations at war. But far from the dramatic scenes played out in movies and series, what is actually happening behind the scenes? How do hostage negotiators build rapport and trust and come to agreements with...
SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2023)
January 23, 2024 18:03 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesIt's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series about "Reconciling Estrangement", "Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens", "Flipping Extremists to Bolster Peace", "Peacemaking in Relationships Amidst Health Challenges", "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions", and more.
Two Peace Books - by David LaMotte & J. Lawrence Graham
December 01, 2023 13:43 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn today's episode, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to songwriter, speaker and author David LaMotte, who wrote WORLD-CHANGING 101: CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF POWERLESSNESS and John Lawrence Graham, the author of the book CHARLOTTE'S WAR to understand each writer's views on peace, war, creative nonviolence and community peace-building in today’s world. Complete coverage on this and 250 other episodes in our series online at https://peacetalksradio.com
Peacemaking in Estranged Relationships
October 02, 2023 11:25 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore the incredibly common yet largely undiscussed topic of estrangement. In a national survey, almost 30 percent of American adults reported cutting off contact with a family member. And 1 in 10 reported they’d cut off contact with either a parent or a child. Yet, despite how common it is, people who are estranged from friends or family often experience profound feelings of grief, loneliness and uncertainty. Estrangement can be both voluntary and i...
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
August 21, 2023 23:03 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at transitional justice through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. We’ve looked at the topic of transitional justice in a 2021 episode, but now look at different examples of Commissions around the globe. From the most famous historical example of the Commission established to investigate abuses under the Apartheid era in South Africa, we’ll look at the evolution of the tool in countries like the Gambia and Colombia following conflict ...
Peacemaking Amid Health Challenges in Relationships
August 21, 2023 23:01 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we explore what the sudden onset or revelation of an illness or disorder means for a relationship, be it familial, friendship or romantic. This change can be incredibly frightening, bringing with it emotions like fear, anger, guilt and deep sorrow. These are all valid emotions. Individuals in such situations may have to make a choice either to stay through the sudden change, or to leave a relationship that is no longer serving them or the other. But it is...
Cultural Appropriation Consideration
June 30, 2023 20:49 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll explore the challenges surrounding conflicts around cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation involves adopting elements from a culture or identity that’s not your own in a way that may be harmful, stereotypical, or exploitative. The lines are harder to draw between cultural appropriation and appreciation. The world is a global village and cultures are constantly interacting, borrowing, remixing, and evolving. However, in case of appropriation,...
Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens
May 30, 2023 18:48 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesIn many urban settings, there is a significant unhoused population on the streets. According to the some recent data, more than half a million people in the United States are unhoused. Many of us want to help but may feel conflicted about how. On this Peace Talks Radio episode, correspondent Emily Cohen explores the dynamics of homelessness with three guests working to assist people living on the street, including Miranda Twitchell who is a leader in the unsheltered community in which she h...
Flipping Terrorists To Bolster Peace
May 02, 2023 20:15 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesA threat of both international and domestic terrorism has been a constant in our world for decades now. Radicalization of individuals to practice such terrorism has been identified as one of the key reasons behind these attacks forcing governments around the world to focus on countering terrorism through deradicalization. On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to our guests about what drives people into joining terrorist groups and how counter-terrorism effo...
How To Be A Better Ally For Peace and Justice
April 05, 2023 14:21 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, talk about what it means to be an ally to members of marginalized communities, and the necessary discomfort that comes with growing our awareness about our participation in oppressive structures in society, and how we can all be both the oppressed, as well as the oppressor. Correspondent Sen Zhan speaks with three DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) practitioners: Agnieszka Bua, Amaka Ohia-Nowak, and Kevin Groen.
Seeking Peace over Oppression Through Theatre
March 02, 2023 12:35 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesHow can a theatre modality called Theatre of the Oppressed work to raise awareness about the mechanisms of oppression that exist in societies, and empower both performers and audience members to take concrete steps towards social change? PEACE TALKS RADIO Correspondent Sen Zhan interviews Barbara Santos and Till Baumann from Kuringa, the Theatre of the Oppressed organization in Berlin, on how this theatre modality can be leveraged to activate citizen participation. She also speaks with four p...
20 Years of PEACE TALKS RADIO
March 02, 2023 12:32 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this anniversary special, you'll hear an inspirational sampling of just some of the nearly 800 guests the program has featured dating back to the pilot show in 2002, all the way through 2022. After the 9/11 attacks of 2001, Suzanne Kryder and Paul Ingles set out on a mission to protect some of the media landscape for talk about peacemaking throughout history, and nonviolent conflict resolution strategies that we could all apply to our daily lives.
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022)
January 06, 2023 13:09 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesIt's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series about "Sharing Living Space Peacefully", "Improving The Nobel Peace Prize", "Managing News Anxiety", "Cities of Asylum", "Ending Teen Dating Violence", and more.
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence with Wildlife
December 01, 2022 12:58 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesThis episode seeks to highlight solutions which help humans and wildlife coexist. It highlights the reasons behind why conflicts take place and how policymakers are addressing it. It also addresses how each of us can handle conflicts with the animals around us every day whether it is a small mosquito or a big bear. Our first guest, Gerard Martin, is a conservationist in India who focuses on trying to educate people, and young children on how to coexist with snakes. Death due to snake bites ...
Making Peace with Our News Anxiety
October 31, 2022 17:50 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesWe’ll hear from Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences at UCLA, about how repeated media coverage of crises can cause anxiety, PTSD, and even cardiovascular symptoms. Also, with us, Ja’Nel Johnson Phillips, Western Region Manager for Solutions Journalism Network, which focuses on how people solve the problems that we see reported on so often. Plus, we’ll hear from Eric Deggans, a media critic with National Public Radio, who sees cable news, sowing fear and pan...
Sharing Living Space Peacefully - Part 2 of 2
October 24, 2022 11:40 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, Part 2 of our investigation into conflict in the most intimate of places we spend much of our time - at home and in our shared living spaces. This two-part series looks at why we get into the conflicts we do when we live together. How can we use conflict to better understand ourselves and each other? And what practically can we do about it? Correspondent Sen Zhan speaks with five experts in the field of communities, conflict navigation, and persona...
Sharing Living Space Peacefully - Part 1
August 31, 2022 14:03 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll be talking about why it’s so hard to live well together. How can we use the conflicts that arise in everyday living situations to reflect on why we are the way we are, how we can better understand the other, and how conflict can be leveraged to enrich our relationships, rather than deteriorate them? To answer these questions, correspondent Sen Zhan speaks with four experts in the field of communities and conflict navigation: Laird Schaub, Mar...
Reducing Teen Break-up Violence
July 29, 2022 16:08 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesWhat do you think of when you think of abusive relationships? Probably adults, married, right? We often overlook the age group that is perhaps most susceptible and underprepared to handle domestic abuse—teens. According to iloverespect.org, only 33% of teens in abusive relationships tell someone about it. At an age when they are only beginning to find out about dating and about, really, themselves, teens can get caught like a deer in the headlight when faced with abuse. That is why tak...
Improving The Peace Prize
June 29, 2022 16:09 - 59 minutesThe Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privately to consider nominees. They look for world leaders who advance the cause of peace. But in recent years, this process has come under scrutiny. Critics say the prize has lost its way by honoring leaders who later fueled wars and violence. On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Avishay Artsy explores the Nobel Peace Prize’s shortco...
Making Peace With Migration
May 24, 2022 23:47 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesEvery time a group of people line up along the external borders of a country, debates heat up among government leaders with respect to migration and asylum procedures. On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar explores why migration and asylum are contentious and how a country can make peace with migration and asylum. Focusing on how the European Union has been dealing with migration and asylum, we talk to Petra Molnar, a lawyer and anthropologist, who also ...
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
May 24, 2022 23:46 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asian immigrants in western countries. When East meets West in the modern-day, it’s not only cultures that can clash, it’s also the past crashing into the present. Asians who have been formed by both cultures know this very well, and are one group among many who navigate the conflicts of transcultural existence. We’ll hear from Chinese-Canadian ...
Resolving the Misinformation Link to Conflict
May 24, 2022 23:41 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll dive into a deeper understanding of some terms we’re all now much more familiar with terms like misinformation, disinformation, and even “fake news”, then we’ll look at ways to block their negative impacts -sometimes deadly impact - in some parts of the world. Correspondent Danielle Preiss and her guests will help us learn that humans have been using what’s been called more recently “fake news” to win conflicts since we’ve been able to commun...
Role of Anarcho-Pacifism in Peace
May 24, 2022 23:37 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesPerhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk with a sociology professor and an activist/scholar who help us understand Anarcho Pacifists. They explain that Anarcho Pacifists hold that anarchism is a philosophy of non-violence, because it opposes all domination and power. This includes the strongest form of domination: violence upon another person. We hear that Anarch...
Cities of Asylum for Artists, Writers & Journalists
May 24, 2022 23:36 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesThis time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, we talk with three guests about “Cities of Asylum” – also known as “Cities of Refuge” -- communities that put out the welcome mat for writers, artists, journalists, and human rights defenders whose work puts them at risk in their home countries.
Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special (2021)
May 24, 2022 23:33 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesIt's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series about "Healing a Country's Wounds", as well as from our programs, "Storytelling Solutions for Systemic Conflicts", "Musician/Activists", "Cities of Peace", "Confronting Suicide", and more.
Advertising's Threat to Inner Peace / Media Literacy Programs
May 24, 2022 23:25 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesPEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles postulates that advertising of all kinds crowds our brains with messages that may not help us to inner peace or peace among us. Many of us just let TV, radio and online ads wash over us in our homes, cars and through our devices. We talk with three media educators who think teaching young people and adults to critically analyze ad messages may help us build some immunity to the persuasive power the ads ply to our minds, and to our attitudes about ours...
Healing a Country’s Wounds (Pt. 3)
November 04, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this edition, PEACE TALKS RADIO continues its series on Healing a Country's Wounds by talking about the strategy of Community Building. Past Peace Talks Radio programs in this series on how a Country can Heal its wounds were on Transitional Justice which uses legally mandated strategies, like Truth and Reconcilliation Commitions, or Reparations. Part 2 focused on Public Dialogues which see people willingly having conversations with each other to help communities heal. This third pro...
Books on the Efficacy of Social Movements & The Crisis of School Violence
November 04, 2021 15:59 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesMillions of people around the globe have participated in protests and demonstrations over the course of history. Have those actions actually brought about the changes they sought? We'll talk with author Brian Gruber who co-wrote the book. It explores the victories and setbacks of 10 movements in America and three international movements including the fight for civil rights, women's suffrage, the Arab Spring and anti-Vietnam War protests. We'll talk about how you measure success or fai...
Healing a Country’s Wounds (Pt. 2)
November 04, 2021 15:53 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesWhile a past Peace Talks Radio program on Transitional Justice included legal strategies such as a truth and reconciliation commission, this program deals with conversations that aren’t judicially mandated. Instead, Public Dialogues happen when people willingly listen to and talk with other citizens, develop understandings across differences, and collaborate on shared solutions. They discover a space between the two poles of ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ about an issue. The need for Public Di...
International Cities of Peace, and more
November 04, 2021 15:49 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesFirst up, we meet Fred Arment, . Since 2009, ICP has been building a network of communities great and small that prioritize peaceful coexistence. Fred has also been consulting with the United Nations Economic and Social Council for NGOs for the past four years. Then it's James Siguru Wahutu, a professor in NYUs Peace and Conflict Studies program. When a conflict reaches an acute level of violence, it can be difficult to communicate the gravity of the situation to people outside that c...
Musician/Activists for Social Change
July 08, 2021 18:28 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesHost Paul Ingles profiles 3 musicians whose music turned the attention of their fans to issues of peacemaking, social justice and ending hunger & poverty. From his first single in 1972 ("Doctor My Eyes") to his latest 2021 album DOWNHILL FROM EVERYWHERE, musician Jackson Browne has used many of his songs to raise consciousness over the environment, the cost of war, social justice and the wealth gap around the world. Paul offers highlights from his exclusive interview with Jackson. Paul also...
What To Do With Anger?
July 08, 2021 18:25 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesProducer Megan Kamerick explores the dynamics of anger with three guests who offer insights on how one can avoid fights that don’t change anything, and also how to use our anger effectively. Guests include Dr. Harriet Lerner, author of the book "The Dance of Anger". Also authors Todd Kashdan and Aaron Balick.
Healing a Country’s Wounds: Transitional Justice
July 08, 2021 18:24 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesThis time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from periods of conflict and repression. While there’s no one magic solution, transitional justice is a collection of strategies for creating sustainable approaches and avoiding destructive outcomes when a country has been in extreme conflict. Transitional Justice includes international criminal courts, truth and justice commissions, and reparations.
Grassroots Storytelling Solutions To Systemic Conflicts
July 08, 2021 18:22 - 59 minutes - 59 BytesOn this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, three conversations about community storytelling. If listening is an act of love, then storytelling could be the first step to resolving many conflicts. Correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks to storytellers who lift up the voices of individuals seeking peace in their communities.
Making Peace With Our Earth
July 08, 2021 18:20 - 2 hours - 120 BytesHighlights of the program's coverage of the environment and climate crisis issues over the years.
Kindness and Compassion on Display in Film Doc “The Antidote”
March 02, 2021 14:31 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we consider a 2020 film documentary made in response to the times we are living in. THE ANTIDOTE is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It's about everyday people who make the intentional choice to lift others up, despite the fundamentally unkind ways of our society, which are at once facts of life in America and yet deeply antithetical to our founding ideals. Host Paul I...
Confronting Suicide & Support for Reporters Covering Trauma
March 02, 2021 14:31 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBEach year about a million people in the United States attempt to take their own lives. Another ten million people seriously consider suicide. Those rates have been rising in the coronavirus pandemic. These statistics became very real for us at PEACE TALKS RADIO recently when a talented young producer named Hannah Colton, who did several episodes for us, took her own life in November of 2020. On this episode we talk with psychologist Dr. Ursula Whiteside about her efforts to stop suici...
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2020)
January 06, 2021 16:07 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOur annual compendium of highlights from the programs of one season of PEACE TALKS RADIO - the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. You'll hear excerpts from 2020 programs about The Peace Work of Jimmy Carter, Meeting Conflict around Mental Illness, Confronting White Supremacy & Extremism, Dealing with Climate Anxiety, Confronting Hate Crimes & Learning Media Literacy, Public Art's Response to Conflict, Improving Political Civility, John Lewis' Work for Peace, Nati...
Peacebuilding When We Disagree
January 06, 2021 16:05 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBWhen most election seasons end, there's a lot of talk from winning candidates about opposing political sides trying to "talk" and "listen" to each other and stop demonizing each other. One commentator recently said that can't be up to the politicians, "that's up to us!" This PEACE TALKS RADIO program is about how to move from disgust of another's belief to a more engaged alliance. Host Suzanne Kryder leads a panel discussion about how, when we disagree, what more can we do other than t...
Police De-escalation / Quakers in Costa Rica
January 06, 2021 16:04 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBWe explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high profile examples of excessive force. Sarah Holtz speaks with crisis intervention trainer Scott Sharot. Then we spotlight a documentary that tells the tale of American Quakers expatriating to non-military Costa Rica in the 1950's and setting up a community there that still is thriving today.
Native Peace Values / Reconciling Clergy Abuse
January 06, 2021 16:02 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBA two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again, which explores how the best aspects of the United States -- ideas like liberty, equality and justice -- were inspired by Native American cultures. Megan also talks with Oren Lyons, who is a faith-keeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs, with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. In part two of our progra...
John Lewis: Profile in Peace
January 06, 2021 15:55 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThe late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol when his body laid in state in the Rotunda, a week after his death July 17, 2020. Also included are other tributes, and archival tapes of John Lewis speeches and interviews.
Returning Civility to Political Discourse
January 06, 2021 15:53 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBNational polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our nation, while 75% agree that it’s certainly worse than it was just a few years ago. Since 2004, PEACE TALKS RADIO has been tracking the conversation about the declining civility in our political discourse. This time on the program we present another panel of guests with their takes on it with Suzanne Kryder hosting the conversations.
Public Art For Peace
July 13, 2020 18:46 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we discuss the relationship between public art and conflict resolution. First, we meet Heidi Schmalbach, an arts advocate who studies creative placemaking as a means to strengthen community. Next, we speak with Tsungwei Moo, a visual artist who recently contributed to the Art of Peace Project, which transforms gun parts into artwork. Finally, graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez describes how his superhero series, "La Borinqueña", has helped ...
Hate Crimes/Media Literacy
July 13, 2020 18:44 - 59 minutes - 80.9 MBTwo topics on this program. First, Judy Goldberg visits with Arjun Singh Sethi who tells us about his book, American Hate - Survivors Speak Out. Also in the show Paul Ingles talks with media literacy scholar and teacher Rob Williams about ways to filter our experience with mass media to minimize the disruption to our inner peace and ability to make peace with others in our world.
Climate Anxiety
July 13, 2020 18:42 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we hear three perspectives on climate anxiety. We hear from Frances Roberts-Gregory, an environmental sociologist; Peter Fimrite, who covers the environment for the San Francisco Chronicle; and Monique Verdin, an artist and storyteller who has documented environmental damages to her ancestral land in coastal Louisiana. Sarah Holtz hosts.