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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Alternative to Violence Program in Prisons
July 06, 2011 04:08 - 59 minutes - 27 MBSince 1975, a program called the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has been going into prisons to offer non-violence workshops to prisoners with the intent of reducing violence in prisons and steering inmates toward nonviolent practices when they return to society after completing their sentences. Carol Boss talks with two former inmates who each served extended sentences for second degree murder charges. Both feel their lives were transformed with the help of AVP.
Profile in Peace: Martti Ahtisaari
July 06, 2011 04:01 - 59 minutes - 27 MBMartti Ahtisaari is a former Finnish President who also has over 30 years of international mediation experience, negotiating agreements of various kinds in Namibia, Indonesia, Northern Ireland and Kosovo. He talks with host Paul Ingles about his mediation style. Also, a rebroadcast of our 2002 interview with former U.S. President and Nobel Prize Winner Jimmy Carter. The hour winds up with a fascinating interview with a former Skinhead White Supremist, Frank Meeink, who now preaches diversi...
Stopping Relationship Violence
July 06, 2011 03:48 - 59 minutes - 27 MBHost Paul Ingles tells the story of losing a friend to a domestic homicide and explores efforts to help young people learn the building blocks for experiencing healthy relationships as adults. Researchers say those who turn into stalkers and jealous, violent lovers often experience abuse as children and have limited positive role models for good relationships. Paul talks with two people involved in developing programs for schools that help youngsters learn how relationship conflict can be ha...
Peace Week 2010
April 26, 2011 23:33 - 59 minutes - 27 MBFor those interested in peacemaking, an ideal conference might include dozens of peace workers throughout the world, gathered together for a week of panels and conversations. In 2010, such a gathering took place. Not in a physical space but in the virtual world of the internet. Using teleconference technology, The Shift Network and The Peace Alliance teamed up to bring 75 peace luminaries to the web, allowing anyone with a computer or a smart phone to listen in live and even interact with ...
Liu Xiaobo: Profile
March 22, 2011 14:04 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIn 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms in China. Currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in China, he was unable to attend the peace award ceremony. We talk with poet Jeffrey Yang who is editing a collection of Xiaobo's poetry to learn more about the prize winner's life and commitment to peace. Also Chinese writer Tienchi Liao, a literary colleague of Xiaobo, ...
Seeking Peace on Earth: The 2010 Peace Talks Radio Special
February 21, 2011 15:53 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIt's been a great year at Peace Talks Radio. We looked at peace endeavors in U.S. prisons, highlighted the “Peace Through Music” project, and examined international efforts to protect human rights defenders in global conflict hot spots. We also talked with leading thinkers in conflict resolution, like William Ury, Daniel Goleman and Rick Hanson, and asked a panel how we can make peace with Mother Nature in the wake of 2010’s many environmental disasters. We explored the story of Massosoit's...
THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE: A PROFILE
February 21, 2011 15:49 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWhen you visualize the National Mall in Washington, DC, what do you see? Perhaps stately buildings like the US Capitol or the Smithsonian castle. Or, perhaps you see some of the monuments and memorials that remind us of conflict and war, for example, the World War II, Korean, and Vietnam war memorials. Even the majestic monuments to Washington and Lincoln are reminiscent of wars that our country fought for freedom. On the next Peace Talks Radio, we explore a new memorial on the National Mall:...
Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims
December 10, 2010 22:48 - 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 with th...
Making Peace With Divorce
November 03, 2010 02:53 - 59 minutes - 27 MBPEACEMAKING AFTER A DIVORCE - In the U.S., about 50% of all marriages end in divorce. Divorce is often described in the language of war. The ex-spouses battle over possessions and children. Attorneys look for ammunition. The warring partners burn bridges, plunder bank accounts, and drop bombshells. In a sense, the script is already written for us. Divorce is a civil war in a family. But does it have to be that way? What happens when both parties want to write the ending a different way and ...
Making Peace With Nature
November 03, 2010 02:49 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAFTER THE TOXIC SPILLS: MAKING PEACE WITH NATURE. When the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded in April of 2010 and set off the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, virtually everyone viewing the disruption - to wildlife and the lives of people in that region - was devastated. Here at Peace talks Radio, we guessed that the event probably set off an inner conflict in many about humans’ relationship with nature. Then there was the toxic sludge spill in Hungary. S...
Peacemaking from the "Third Side"
September 22, 2010 22:01 - 59 minutes - 28 MBDo you work to transform destructive conflict into cooperation? Can you take the "Third Side" in the conflicts around you even when you’re a party to the conflict? The "Third Side" looks at conflict not just from one side or the other but from the larger perspective of the surrounding community, or “third side.” This time on Peace Talks Radio, host Suzanne Kryder talks with Dr. William Ury, co-founder of Harvard University's Program on Negotiation and author of The Power of a Positive No: Ho...
Youth Voices on Peacemaking
May 03, 2010 22:52 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis time we talk with young people to hear their ideas about what it takes to make peace and resolve conflict. Second to fifth grade students have a lot of good ideas as it turns out. We talked with a diverse group of 15 youngsters who were attending Sunday youth activities one morning at Albuquerque's First Unitarian Church. We also visited with three teen members of KUNM's Youth Radio Project: Luke Iha, Bashar Jawad and Amanja Lambert.
Afghan Schools
April 08, 2010 23:27 - 59 minutes - 867 BytesOn this edition of Peace Talks Radio, two men – Greg Mortenson and Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti- who firmly believe that the path to relieving suffering, reducing conflict, and promoting peace in the troubled and chronically war-torn country of Afghanistan is by building schools. Schools for young Afghan boys and especially for young Afghan girls for whom education and basic literacy has been denied. Greg Mortenson is the author of the best selling books THREE CUPS OF TEA and STONES INTO SCHO...
Peace in Prison
March 28, 2010 14:15 - 59 minutes - 27 MBPeace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution, features Jane Davis of Hope-Howse. In December 1993, Jane was asked to be a media witness at an electric chair execution in Georgia. She says witnessing the execution made everything inside her go "haywire." She writes, "This isolated act of killing another human being...left no alternatives. It took away all hope." Since then Jane has been travelling to death rows and prisons around the country and arou...
Playing For Change
March 28, 2010 14:14 - 59 minutes - 54 MB17 million views on You Tube to date. That's the number of times the unique rendition of the song "Stand By Me" has been seen on the internet. The song featured contributions from street musicians and indigenous performers around the world, all playing to the same basic track recorded in Santa Monica, CA by music producer and engineer Mark Johnson. The good vibe from the collaboration inspired a whole CD called Songs Around The World, a DVD called Peace Through Music, a live tour, and a no...
SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: THE PEACE TALKS RADIO SPECIAL (2009)
January 15, 2010 13:40 - 59 minutes - 27 MBDespite ongoing turmoil and conflict in our world, there are still people who are working for peace. Listen for the annual compendium of highlights from the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Listeners will hear about the Dalai Lama's commitment to peace, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's peace work, peace lessons from the annual Rainbow Gatherings and from international water negotiations. Other programs spotlighting a community art project and an interna...
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace
December 18, 2009 06:30 - 59 minutes - 27 MBKim Rosen, author of the book Saved by a Poem, talks about how people struggling with personal conflict can find peace, comfort and perspective in the words of poetry and song. She also sees a role for poetry in international negotiations that address conflict on a broader scale. Also on the program, Sarah Wilkinson tells about the Peace Pal Project which connects school children in different parts of the world through a pen pal initiative and conflict resolution curriculum that,she says, bro...
Can Water Negotiations Point The Way To Peace?
October 04, 2009 14:43 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis time we explore the question, will managing the world's overtaxed water supply lead to more conflict or actually be a compelling catalyst to peace? The fact is that, so far, cooperation rather than conflict over water is the norm around the world. That's according to Oregon State University Professor Aaron Wolf, co-author of the book Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts, who's been facilitating solutions to water conflicts for years and sees many lessons in peacemaking emerging fr...
Rainbow Gathering Peace Lessons
September 14, 2009 21:26 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIn 1516, Sir Thomas More published the book, “Utopia,” a word he coined for an ideal, imaginary island nation. His book describes a perfect socio-political-legal society that’s free of poverty and suffering. Even though utopia comes from Greek words meaning “no place” and indicates that More considered it an impossible goal, groups throughout history have tried to create idyllic, peaceful communities. On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore an on-going utopian experiment, the Rainbo...
Arts + Parks
August 21, 2009 12:56 - 59 minutes - 26.9 MBThis time on Peace Talks Radio, we explore a program that transforms troubled neighborhoods into more peaceful, secure places through art, learning, land transformation and economic development. Host Carol Boss speaks with Lily Yeh, co-founder of two organizations dedicated to re-building communities: The Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc. and, more recently, Barefoot Artists, Inc. In North Philadelphia, Yeh, with a group of neighborhood residents (mostly children), cleared a trash-stre...
The Peace Work of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
July 18, 2009 03:38 - 59 minutes - 54 MBOn this special edition of Peace Talks Radio, we recall the several years when musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. John was shot dead outside his apartment in New York in 1980 – 11 years after he wrote the song that – since its creation in 1969, has been a fixture at just about any gathering for peace. Give Peace A Chance was released 40 years ago this summer (July 4). We’ll talk with Yoko Ono as w...
The Dalai Lama in Our Time
May 22, 2009 03:03 - 59 minutes - 27 MB2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet. On this program, Suzanne Kryder talks with Tibetan scholar Dr. Robert Thurman, author of the book Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet and the World. Also featured is Pico Iyer, author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama. Listeners will also hear excerpts from the Dalai Lama's 2008 appearance at Seattle's Seeds of Compassion Conference. This program explore...
The Star Trek Peace Message
April 15, 2009 03:58 - 59 minutes - 27 MBPeace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, explores the peace message in the hugely popular original 1960's TV series - STAR TREK. A new Star Trek movie was released in May 2009 that revisits the stories of Capt. Kirk, Spock, Bones and the characters from the original series. This episode ot Peace Talks Radio notes how many stories in the original series thoughtfully explored the themes of war and peace, tolerance, friendship and compassion. When origi...
Peace Talks Radio: Peacemaking Elders
February 25, 2009 15:28 - 59 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this two-part program, Peace Talks Radio salutes "Peacemaking Elders"- people who, well into their eighties, are still working for peace. Our guests in Part One are Juanita Nelson and Ruth Imber. Juanita and Wally Nelson were among the first to take the step of refusing to pay taxes to the government because they did not want their tax dollars to go to military spending. Starting in 1948, they lived simply below the taxable income line and were active in civil rights and social justice...
Barack Obama as Peacemaker
January 26, 2009 05:42 - 59 minutes - 26.7 MBJanuary 20, 2009, newly inaugurated United States President Barack Obama declared a new era for American leadership in promoting peace on the planet, but how likely is it that he'll play the role of peacemaker as president? During the campaign, he pointed to his early opposition to the war in Iraq, while talking tough on other international fronts. While he's said it's important for the U.S. to talk to its enemies, he's appointed a Secretary of State in Hillary Clinton who challenged him on...
Seeking Peace on Earth: The Peace Talks Radio Special (2008)
December 21, 2008 01:42 - 59 minutes - 27 MBA popular program for the holiday season, Seeking Peace on Earth: The Peace Talks Radio Special reminds listeners that there ARE people who are actually pursuing peace and offering ideas how to reduce conflict in our lives. The program is a compendium of compelling moments from recent episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. On this show. listeners will hear from recent guests who talked about the connection between climate change and peace,...
JFK
November 21, 2008 13:47 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIn an in-depth conversation, James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters", spells out his theory that the 35th President was the victim of a murder conspiracy and that he died because of his peacemaking policies. He tracks Kennedy's transformation from a hawkish anti-Communist to someone who helped save the world from nuclear war by establishing back-channel conversations with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. Listeners will also hear much of Kennedy...
Changing Minds During Election Season
September 25, 2008 03:52 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWhenever election season rolls around, conflict between political camps really heats up. Differences over whom to support can even put friends and family members at odds with each other. Undecided voters may authentically be at odds with themselves. And it's often those undecided voters who swing close elections. In the month's leading up to election day, each candidate's campaign workers are trying their best to bring those conflicted voters their way, maybe even change the minds of some vot...
A Nonviolent Strategy Video Game
August 01, 2008 04:12 - 59 minutes - 11.6 MBOn a recent episode of our program, we explored the debate over violence in video games and asked what impact violent video gaming might have on our notions of conflict resolution and on levels of aggression in society. Some say it's a significant problem, that effects are real and anti social, and that violent video games should be more tightly regulated. Others think the concern over the negative effects of violence in video games is overstated and that the games have problem-solving and ...
The Video Game Violence Debate
July 31, 2008 03:17 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBAlmost 3 out of 4 Americans consider it a worthy goal to do something to temper the violence in our media, yet violent movies, television and video games are extremely popular. Do violent games, like the recently updated Grand Theft Auto series, along with other violent entertainment, chip away at our sensitivities about violence and impact our notions about conflict resolution? This time on Peace Talks Radio, the video game violence debate. And it is a debate. While no one is FOR letting ve...
Does Climate Change Threaten Peace?
March 30, 2008 22:04 - 59 minutes - 23.6 MBBy awarding the prize to Gore and the IPCC, the Nobel committee seemed interested in promoting the link between climate change and the threat to peace. Could the unchecked effects of climate change lead to conflicts and civil war within nations, or war between nations? Could a collective effort to save the planet from the harmful consequences of climate change actually promote peaceful cooperation within and between nations? We talk with two scholars who have studied the possible links bet...
Making Peace With Money
March 13, 2008 01:31 - 59 minutes - 26.6 MBHost Suzanne Kryder talks with Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life and financial advisor and author Brent Kessel who wrote It's Not About The Money: Unlock your Money Type to Achieve Spiritual and Financial Abundance. Lynne Twist has had a long career as a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, and mentor. She works to end world hunger, empower women, nurture children and youth, promote economic integrity and spiritual authenticity, and...
Teaching Peace In The Classroom
January 31, 2008 03:38 - 59 minutes - 30.9 MBIn his more recent public appearances, Tibetan Leader, the Dalai Lama, has been targeting his peace and compassion message to young people. To him, teaching compassion and peace to our young is the best hope for peace in the future. A look at efforts to teach peace in the schools, this time on Peace Talks Radio. First, a visit with Azim Khamisa, director of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, a non-profit organization that takes programs on nonviolence and forgiveness into schools. The foundation ...
Peace Talks 2007
December 06, 2007 05:11 - 59 minutes - 33.7 MBListeners will hear about three Nobel Peace Laureates. The peacemaking diplomacy of 1950 Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche is recalled. 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams talks about her campaign to ban landmines and speaks of personal repsonsibility in peacemaking. The microcredit work of 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus is explored. Also, a remarkable story of forgiveness leads to a program for teaching nonviolence in schools, author Byron Katie talks about the search for inner...
Electing Mediators to Public Office
October 23, 2007 22:39 - 59 minutes - 79.7 MBWith election cycles in constant motion, this time on Peace Talks Radio, we offer a conversation about the possible impact of electing mediators to public office. We'll talk with Dr. Dan Dana, a mediator and former candidate for the US House of Representatives in Kansas. After his failed, non-adversarial bid for office, Dan created the "Elect Mediators to Public Office" project. He believes that having more mediators in public office who use a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution w...
Religious Tolerance
September 28, 2007 15:06 - 59 minutes - 23.2 MBThis time, what is religious tolerance and how can it be promoted? Many of the world’s religions believe they are the one true faith, and they encourage members to convert others to their faith. How, then, do people from different faiths find common ground and make peace? Our guests will discuss the definitions and limits of religious tolerance. Should we tolerate all religions, even those whose members are intolerant of other faiths? What steps can we take to make peace with people of othe...
9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
September 10, 2007 02:54 - 59 minutes - 23.5 MBThis time, we check in with "9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows," an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn their grief into action for peace. By developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice, the organization hopes to break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism. By acknowledging their common experience with all people affected by violence throughout the world, these survivors of ...
NVC Marshall Rosenberg
July 30, 2007 15:33 - 59 minutes - 30.8 MBThis time on Peace Talks Radio, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with Marshall Rosenberg. NVC is a verbal technology for exchanging information and resolving differences peacefully. Marshall Rosenberg, who founded the NVC technique, is captured before a live Albuquerque audience talking about how this communication style helps to resolve conflict. He also helps members of the studio audience develop solutions to conflict scenarios using the principles of Nonviolent Communication. Co hosts: Paul...
Taken Too Soon: The Cost of War
June 27, 2007 17:32 - 59 minutes - 23.7 MBTaken Too Soon: The Cost of War is produced by Paul Ingles, who runs a non-profit media organization called Good Radio Shows, Inc. The program features some of the names and circumstances of the deaths of coalition forces, Iraqi and Afghan civilians, contractors and journalists killed since the fighting began in Afghanistan in October of 2001 and continuing up to the present day. "I don't think there's been a program like this that has acknowledged the loss of life among civilians, contracto...
Peace Talks Byron Katie
May 28, 2007 13:46 - 59 minutes - 18.5 MBPeace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution returns this time to maybe the most challenging conflict terrain of all, our inner selves. How can we calm the turmoil within ourselves about who we are, how we are and how we relate to the rest of the world? On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, a conversation with a woman who offers one approach. Her name is Byron Katie who, in the mid 1980's, says she was in deep personal chaos trying to manage her life as a...
Peace Talks Prison
April 30, 2007 13:00 - 59 minutes - 11.6 MBINFO: This time on Peace Talks, our host Carol Boss, talks with two former prison inmates who grew up in substance abusing families. Both began using at the age of 11 and progressed from alcohol to marijuana to cocaine to meth. We used first names only. Our first guest is Chris, who is now clean and about to start work as a matre dei in an Albuquerque restaurant. He was released from prison April 2006 after serving a 15 month sentence. Our second guest is Alisha who, like Chris, grew up in a...
Peace Talks Mairead Maguire
April 16, 2007 14:40 - 59 minutes - 11.6 MBIn this Peace Talks Radio Episode, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire recalls her peace work and talks with host Carol Boss about how the principles of nonviolence can be applied to conflicts around the world and in daily life. Info: Mairead Corrigan Maguire founded the Community of the Peace People in 1976 in war-torn Northern Ireland along with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown. Mairead was the aunt of the three Maguire children who were hit by a runaway car after its driver was sh...
Peace Talks Workplace With Suzanne Kryder
April 14, 2007 14:40 - 59 minutes - 11.6 MBEven if you only work the American average of 40 hours a week, that still means that almost 40% of your waking hours are spent at work. And we all know that workplaces can become workshops in conflict resolution. It's not always easy to get along with your boss, your fellow employees, your customers. Conflicts of all kinds can surface and frankly, a lot of us do our best to steer around them for as long as possible rather than face them head on. Suzanne Kryder, the original host of this progr...
Peace Talks Radio: Ralph Bunche - Profile in Peace.
March 28, 2007 22:53 - 59 minutes - 23.6 MBA conversational profile of Ralph Bunche - a sometimes overlooked African-American who excelled in the world of diplomacy. INFO: In the middle part of the 20th century, if there was a news story about a peacemaking mission around the globe, chances are it contained the name of African-American diplomat Ralph Bunche. A scholar of world affairs and race relations, Bunche was recruited from academia first into the U.S. State Department, then into the fledgling United Nations. He stepped boldly...
Seeking Peace on Earth: The 2006 Peace Talks Special
March 28, 2007 22:48 - 59 minutes - 16.9 MBCompelling moments from the 2006 season of Peace Talks Radio episodes. Info: Listeners will hear -nonviolent communication expert Marshall Rosenberg; -Arun Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi's grandson; -1976 Nobel Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire; -plus highlights from programs on peaceful parenting, the Peace Corps, workplace peacemaking, prison inmates finding their own peace and more.
Making Peace Day To Day: The 2003 Peace Talks Special
March 01, 2007 19:33 - 59 minutes - 31.3 MBCompelling moments from the 2003 season of Peace Talks Radio episodes. Info: Seeking Peace on Earth: The PEACE TALKS 2003 Special, is a collection of some of the most compelling segments from the monthly series PEACE TALKS, broadcast on public radio KUNM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the year 2003. Host Suzanne Kryder talks with people whose life's work is to resolve conflict peacefully in a variety of environments. Listeners will hear: -tips on raising children who are skilled in handli...
Making Peace Day to Day: The 2004 Peace Talks Special
March 01, 2007 19:33 - 59 minutes - 23.6 MBCompelling moments from the 2004 season of Peace Talks Radio episodes. PEACE TALKS: Making Peace Day To Day, is a 59 minute collection of some of the most compelling segments from the monthly series PEACE TALKS, broadcast on public radio KUNM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hosts Suzanne Kryder and Paul Ingles talk with people whose life's work is to resolve conflict peacefully in a variety of environments. Listeners will hear: -tips on how to find a primary relationship that has less conflic...
Seeking Peace on Earth: The 2005 Peace Talks Special
March 01, 2007 19:33 - 59 minutes - 10.1 MBCompelling moments from the 2005 season of Peace Talks Radio episodes. Info: Listeners will hear from: - Yolanda King, daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., talking about the nonviolent legacy of her father. - Princeton University Professor Dr. Zia Mian on nuclear disarmament issues. - Parenting expert Ruth Beaglehole on how to raise children without resorting to physical or emotional violence. - Musician Steve Earle about his campaign to abolish the death penalty. - Mel Dun...