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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White Supremacy/Extremism
July 13, 2020 18:40 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, Megan Kamerick interviews Layla Saad, the author of "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor". Also, Sarah Holtz speaks with the Executive Director of Parents for Peace, Myrieme Churchill, to learn about the group’s vision and strategies in helping families deal with family members who become drawn to extremist and terrorist causes.
Conflicts Around Mental Illness
July 13, 2020 18:38 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis Peace Talks Radio program discusses lessening the stigma around commonly named mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, and psychosis, as well as how to support someone appearing to have a mental health challenge in public, for example, on the street, in a building, or on a bus. Or in our family or circle of friends. The program also looks at the conflict in mental health care over the diagnosis and treatment of the 450 mental disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Stat...
Profile in Peace: Jimmy Carter
July 13, 2020 18:34 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn this program, we present part of our chat with Former President Jimmy Carter from 2002. Also, an extended conversation with Stu Eizenstat who was President Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff during his presidency. In 2018, Eizenstat published the book JIMMY CARTER, THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS. Finally, you’ll also hear an excerpt from President Carter’s landmark 1979 Oval Office talk with the nation called “Crisis of Con...
Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special (2019)
February 01, 2020 16:11 - 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 2019 programs about Mediation training programs, refugee asylum efforts, Johnny Cash playing the Nixon White House in 1970, peacemaking in the LGBTQ community, Catholic peacemaking icons Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero, economic class conflict, town meeting conflict resolution, and more.
Resolving Conflict, "Town Meeting" Style
February 01, 2020 16:09 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBLong before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years later, the town meeting tradition has endured in New England, though with each passing decade, towns are seeing a steady decline in participation. On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz brings us a conversation about conflict resolution through the lens of town meeting. We'll hear from four individuals who actively par...
Facing Our Fears - What's Real & What's Imagined?
February 01, 2020 16:07 - 59 minutes - 81 MBIt's easy to be fearful in the world today. But how much of our fear is based on things that are not actual threats? Today, 3 takes. One says fear is unequally distributed in the U.S.- onto people of color. Another guest says, in general there's less to be afraid of than we're led to believe. And our other guest says, we're misdirecting our fear when it comes to the major threats to our national security. Guests are Janet Napolitano, Barry Glassner, and Reggie Jackson. Host, Megan Kame...
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
February 01, 2020 16:05 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBWhile some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program is only about economic class conflict - not social, political, or cultural inequality. We talk with two good thinkers on the topic: Dr. Tina Wright, a sociologist, who teaches at LA Southwest College and Nick Hanauer, a self-described "proud and unapologetic capitalist" who's become a leading critic of income inequality and modern economic policy. He's also ...
Learning Lessons from History to Make Peace Today
February 01, 2020 16:04 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBAt the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland, a quote on the wall of one of the cell blocks reads, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." These words are attributed to George Santayana, and they help explain why the former death camp is still open for public viewing 74 years after it was shut down. Historical amnesia was a real danger after the Holocaust, and with so many other tragedies that have followed, it's still a threat today.
Reconciling A Sexual Assault & De-Escalating Street Conflict
July 05, 2019 23:18 - 59 minutes - 81 MBWe offer two stories this time. In Part One, a story of restorative justice and reconciliation between a woman, who was a victim of a non-consensual sexual assault during a casual date in college, and the man who assaulted her. We'll hear about an all-too-rare resolution where the perpetrator becomes inspired to make things more right by admitting his guilt first to his victim, then publicly and teaming up with the victim to share their story together to promote consent, and help redu...
Catholic Peacemaking Icons
June 05, 2019 23:16 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBDespite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also holds many courageous stories of people working for peace, social justice and economic equity. We’re going to spend some time on those stories on this program. Today Megan Kamerick talks with three guests. The episode leads off with Megan’s conversation with Kate Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, who co-founded the Catholic Worker move...
Peacemaking in LGBTQ Communities
May 05, 2019 23:15 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, a three-part program about peacemaking in LGBTQ communities. Coming out can lead to a sense of personal peace that many people spend their whole lives seeking. But coming out can sometimes bring about conflict with family, friends, and the larger society in which we live. On this month’s episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks with three individuals who came out about their sexual orientation and gender identity and found their ow...
Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon / plus Ndaba Mandela
April 05, 2019 23:11 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis time on Peace Talks Radio, a conversation with Sara Dosa, who co-directed the Netflix film "Tricky Dick and The Man in Black." In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the divisions in the United States over the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement brought the youth of America in conflict with longstanding social and political norms. The Richard Nixon administration sought to ingratiate itself to both the youth culture and the Deep South by trying to recruit the favor of music ...
A Peace Choir and a Peace Elder
March 06, 2019 00:10 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis time on Peace Talks Radio, a two-part program. In Part One, we'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, which was formed in 2015 to promote peace and joy and also raise awareness of important issues like the environment. It has grown into a movement and last year represented the United States last at the World Peace Choir conference in Vienna. Members were also part of a world premiere work, The Great War symphony, in November 2018 at Carnegie Hall in New York commemor...
Immigration Compassion and A Call for Responsible Leaders
February 06, 2019 00:08 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThis time on Peace Talks Radio, a two-part program. Part one is a focus on outreach efforts that intend to bring some peace and safety to immigrants whose futures have become tangled up in the United States’ evolving immigration stance. First we’ll hear the story of Jose Torres who, in the fall of 2017, became the first person in New Orleans to take sanctuary in a church to avoid deportation. Jose is a community leader with the Congress of Day Laborers, a group of immigrant workers a...
Learning Mediation
January 31, 2019 16:29 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBTwenty-one people including PEACE TALKS RADIO host, Suzanne Kryder, took a 40-hour mediation course in Albuqueruqe, NM to improve their communication skills and to someday mediate professionally. Suzanne talks with Anne Lightsey, a professional mediator and the course instructor, about what each of us can do during conflict to make peace rather than simply conclude the other person is wrong. She also talks with four course participants about both their unique motivation to take the cou...
Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special (2018)
January 31, 2019 16:12 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBPEACE TALKS RADIO, the radio series and podcast on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution strategies offers up another compilation show based on a single season of its programs. You’ll hear compelling excerpts from programs released in 2018. Included are conversations about reducing sexual assault by understanding consent, promoting the development of empathy in young people, improving empathy among health care workers, techniques for healing trauma and more.
Grappling with the Violence of Whiteness
December 05, 2018 21:09 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBIn public discussions of racial violence, the focus is often on people of color and the way they experience racism. In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, our guests turn the lens on Whiteness, asking how the notion of Whiteness came to be, how it has shaped American history and how it perpetuates injustice in interpersonal interactions and systems in American society today. We talk with John Biewen, audio director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, who produced ...
More From "Playing For Change": The Peace Through Music Project
December 05, 2018 21:07 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBBack in 2010, Peace Talks Radio did a program of an especially creative joining of music and peace. An outfit called Playing For Change was flying around the globe to record an eclectic collection of musicians playing together on some popular songs to promote the power of music to bring us together. In fact the Playing for Change motto was Peace Through Music. In the years since the first big Playing For Change video ("Stand By Me"), and that early report by us here at Peace Talks R...
Finding Peace, Sustaining Peace
December 05, 2018 21:05 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBHow do we find peace and how do we make peace last? It's easy to become cynical and lose hope when faced with conflicts that seem intractable and have lasted for so long. But there are people working on solutions, even reaching across divides that seemed insurmountable in the past. On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we talk with Noga Harpaz, an Israeli, and Raed al-Hadar, a Palestinian, who are part of “Combatants for Peace”. The group is committed to nonviolence and was launched in ...
Empathy and Peace Behavior
December 05, 2018 21:03 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBWhat are the pros and cons of empathy? Does having empathy lead to peace-inspired action for you, your community, and the world? We'll speak with several experts about empathy and how it impacts our behavior such as relationships with others. Our guests include Courtney Custer at Albuquerque's Southwest Family Guidance Center. She'll explain the "Roots of Empathy" program in which babies successfully teach empathy in the classroom. Also, Eric Butler who iss a national Restorative Just...
Songwriting To Heal Soldiers' Trauma
December 05, 2018 21:01 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOn her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs with them. Gauthier collaborated with the nonprofit "Songwriting With: Soldiers" to co-write the album's 11 tracks with veterans and their families. Paul Ingles hosts.
Peacemaking in Hip Hop Music
August 08, 2018 15:40 - 59 minutes - 81 MBWhen some talk about music that promotes peacemaking, hip hop and rap often get left out of the conversation. Some critics speculate about that genre’s negative influence - from hypersexual music videos to glamorizing guns and drugs. A recent Washington Post headline quotes jazz musician Wynton Marsalis calling popular hip hop “more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.” In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, Hannah Colton explores peacemaking in hip hop culture and history with on...
Fostering Empathy and Compassion in Medicine
August 08, 2018 15:38 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThe evolution of medical discoveries and advanced technologies have brought wonderful cures and increased longevity. But what have we lost? How often have you been a patient, or an advocate for a loved one in the hospital, and faced doctors who seem curt or who aren't fully present and listening? Today on Peace Talks Radio, we'll talk about empathy and compassion in medicine. There's an increasing recognition that compassionate care not only improves patient outcomes, but also helps d...
Humane Policing
August 08, 2018 15:36 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBConversation with both Darron Spencer, a former Colorado Sheriff's deputy and author of the book "Humane Policing" and Albuquerque Police officer Simon Drobik who participated in a 13-hour effort to stop a troubled man from jumping off a highway overpass into traffic. Both men discuss infusing more empathy toward the public and suspects in police work.
Healing Trauma
August 08, 2018 15:35 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBTrauma can make a person feel unsafe in their own body. At that point, the enemy that was living outside is now living inside. This time on Peace Talks Radio, we'll talk about how trauma can hurt not only the survivor who experiences it, but sometimes also the people and society interacting with the survivor. There are many traumas such as childhood and adult abuse, car accidents, surgeries, and war. There are also many ways to nonviolently heal the internal and external conflicts that...
The Best of 2013-2017
August 08, 2018 15:33 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBAt the end of 2017 PEACE TALKS RADIO completed its 15th season. This program includes highlights from the 5 seasons that bridged the series from 10 to 15 years on the air. Listeners will hear excerpts from programs in those seasons that touched on conflict scenarios that are still challenges for us today, including gun violence, political polarization, and moderating police use of force, as well as hearing inspiring words and analysis of peace greats like Nelson Mandela and Martin L...
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2017)
February 21, 2018 16:22 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBOur annual compendium of highlights from a season of PEACE TALKS RADIO, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. This time listeners will hear highlights from programs about handling political stress, understanding and challenging hate speech, over population as a threat to peace, how to find peace jobs, an author's visits to former U.S. military incursions, a CIA analyst's turn toward peace work, raising girls through challenges, and more.
Steering Our Youngsters Away From Sexual Misconduct
January 31, 2018 16:23 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBPeace Talks Radio host Paul Ingles talks with two therapists - Kathryn Stamoulis, from Hunter College in New York City and Jennifer Weeks, director of Sexual Addiction Treatment Services in Pennsylvania about how to talk to youngsters about sexual harassment and unwanted sexual behavior. The conversation aims at setting a framework early on, so when our young people are adults, there may be less of the kind of sexual abuse, intimidation, insensitive advances that made news dramatically...
Massasoit's Peace Pact With The Pilgrims
November 24, 2017 16:08 - 59 minutes - 27 MBMassasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy when English settlers landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. He and his people kept the Pilgrims from starving in the early years of their settlement, attended the first Thanksgiving and forged a peace treaty with the English that lasted 40 years until his death. We'll talk with American Indian scholars Darius Coombs and Bob Charlesbois who'll fill in the details of this Native American leader's attempt to make peace for his people and ...
Population Growth and Peace
October 27, 2017 15:07 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBCould we be trying to increase peace through speech or action, but forget about the planet’s ability to handle population growth? Most contemporary estimates for the carrying capacity of the Earth are between 4 and 16 billion people. Depending on which estimate is used, human overpopulation may or may not have already occurred. The United Nations estimates the world human population is over 7 billion today. We discuss the impact of population on peace and what people can do about it. ...
Challenging Hate Speech
September 29, 2017 15:05 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBPeriodically in recent years, there has appeared to be a resurgence of activity in the U.S. by white supremacist groups, the Ku Klux Klan and neo Nazis, marching openly in US cities often defending their right to assemble and spout hate speech as constitutionally protected freedom of speech. As the marches and gatherings occasionally become more frequent, tensions have risen. Counter protesters appear on the streets to stand against the divisive ideologies. Some of them are provoke...
Remembering Liu Xiaobo
August 25, 2017 15:03 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBIn 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who had called for political reforms in China for decades. At the time of his award, he was incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, and was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. Liu Xiaobo, died Thursday, July 13 at age 61 while on medical parole in China, where he was being treated for liver cancer. He was 7 years into an 11-year prison sente...
Peacemaking on Stage: OSLO
July 28, 2017 14:57 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBSeptember 13, 1993 is a date that many of a certain age will recognize as the day the OSLO ACCORDS were signed. It was marked by a White House Rose Garden ceremony with President Bill Clinton officiating over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Itzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Papers were signed by both warring parties to set up a framework for peace between the two adversaries. Back then, and still today, the OSLO ACCORDS represent at...
Is This What Peaceful Democracy Looks Like?Handling Political Stress
June 01, 2017 16:25 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBIn recent years, national elections have been tightly contested and one result has been an uptick in the rancor in political discourse. With that, surveys show an increase in stress over politics, and anxiety over discussing politics with family and co-workers. Can we craft more peace of mind when politics don’t go our way? Can we talk with our political opposites? All open for more discussion, this time on Peace Talks Radio.
From War Zone to Peace Work
May 01, 2017 16:23 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBThe story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organization that instead promotes peacebuilding through dialogue and understanding and education, particularly surrounding conflict issues in the Middle East.
Raising Girls (Part 2)
April 01, 2017 16:22 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBPart 2 of our sampling of ideas and best practices for raising girls into adulthood. Three women who all have daughters and are also scholars and writers in the field are featured. Lisa Damour, Lara Dotson-Renta, and Michele Coleman.
Raising Girls (Part 1)
March 01, 2017 17:21 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBA sampling of ideas and best practices for raising girls into adulthood. Three women who all have daughters and are also scholars and writers in the field are featured. Lisa Damour, Lara Dotson-Renta, and Michele Coleman.
Interfaith Understanding & An Artist Who Points To Peace
February 01, 2017 17:20 - 59 minutes - 867 BytesConversation with religious scholar Will Keepin and artist Paul Re who established a peace prize to honor modern day peacemakers in New Mexico.
Finding Peace Jobs + Revisiting U.S. Military Zones
January 28, 2017 15:58 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBConversation with two authors. First Suzanne Kryder talks with David Smith, author of "Peace Jobs: A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working For Peace". In his book, Smith features 30 stories from recent college graduates who are working in ways that promote peacemaking and conflict resolution. Smith takes the stance that most any field of work can be shaped into a peacebuilding career. The key is to apply creativity and passion to the work. Then Paul Ingles visits with Brian...
Seeking Peace on Earth 2016
December 31, 2016 15:56 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBOur annual compendium of highlights from the past year's programs including reducing political polarization, the neuroscience of peacemaking, how meditative practices help school kids, the humanitarian work of Doctors Without Borders, racial justice work and more.
Two Books: "The Beatitudes of Peace" & "1941: Fighting the Shadow War"
December 05, 2016 17:35 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBOn this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popular effort to keep America out of World War 2 before the Japanese surprise attack pulled the country completely in. Also, John Dear's book THE BEATITUDES OF PEACE, in which he deconstructs each of the teachings that he calls the "blueprint for how to be a human being". Paul Ingles hosts.
Faith Leaders Organizing for Racial Justice and Peaceful Communities
December 05, 2016 17:33 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBThree people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity. All three share ideas of how we can each address our own implicit biases and become more involved in our own communities to make progress facing these challenges. Paul Ingles hosts.
Peace Greats (Part 2)
December 05, 2016 17:29 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBMemorable moments from Peace Talks Radio programs spotlighting Nobel Prize winners Mairead Maguire, Ralph Bunche, Muhammad Yunus, Jody Williams, Martti Ahtisaari, Liu Xiaobo, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.
Peace Around Political Polarization
July 01, 2016 21:15 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, three guests who’ll touch on just a few of the many reasons political polarization continues in the U.S. Each have a few ideas and programs that could close the gap, even a little bit. Ideas that you could try that just might lessen political polarization at your dinner table, in your neighborhood, your state, and around the country. Suzanne Kryder hosts with Paul Ingles.
Humanitarian Work for Peace: Doctors Without Borders & The Peace Corps
June 01, 2016 20:37 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBDoctors Without Borders has been serving the wounded and sick in conflict, disease and disaster sites around the globe since 1971. On this show, the organization's Mission Head Suzanne Ceresko talks about its work, which earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. In the second half of the program, the spotlight is one the Peace Corps which was established in 1961 by U.S. president John F. Kennedy. In this segment, five returned Peace Corps volunteers share stories and give their perspective o...
Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela,Peace Greats Part 1 - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela,and King
May 01, 2016 15:28 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBWhile the PEACE TALKS RADIO series goes out of its way to feature the less-heralded peace workers throughout history and in our world today, the personalities who rise to the top of world consciousness often do so for very good and powerful reasons that deserve more focused attention. On this program, we’ve gathered 6 whose stories in the 20th Century, and a couple whose stories have continued into the 21st century, who seem linked in many ways – and each has left succeeding generatio...
World Histories of Peace
April 01, 2016 15:26 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBTwo history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points and more. We’ll hear from both authors today. Canadian scholar Antony Adolf and Peter Stearns, Professor of History and former Provost of George Mason University in Virginia.
Peaceful Meditation For School Kids
March 01, 2016 16:23 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBSome schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The results have been encouraging at some locations including reductions in fighting and suspensions along with a bump up in grades. Two programs (in Albuquerque and San Francisco) are spotlighting in this episode of Peace Talks Radio
The Neuroscience of Peacemaking
February 01, 2016 16:21 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBWe talk with two experts about how advances in the field of neuroscience may transform conflict resolution on an individual and global scale. Dr. Mari Fitzduff of Brandeis University talks about a hormone that promotes peace building and explains how conservatism and liberalism can appear in brain scans. Dr. Emile Bruneau, visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania uses neuro-imaging to better understand the often unconscious biases that drive conflict.
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
January 01, 2016 16:20 - 59 minutes - 867 BytesOver the last 100 years, how effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This was the question that researchers Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan set out to answer as they dug deep into the historical data on the subject over the period of 1900-2006. They conclude empirically that nonviolent resistance campaigns were more than twice as effective as violent ones in achieving their goals. On this editi...