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Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst - Integral Mission and Decolonizing Theology
Think Global, Do Justice - July 09, 2024 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThere is no escaping the reality that much of what we're familiar with in global missions and development has some roots in colonialism. There is no better person to help us disentangle God's work from worldly power structures than Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst. Dr. Padilla DeBorst is the Richard C. ...
Diversity Matters: The Importance of Inclusivity in Business
Justice Matters - July 01, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn this week's episode of Justice Matters, co-host Maggie Gates talks with Jessica Yamoah, the CEO and Founder of Innovate Inc., an organization that provides awareness and access to underrepresented communities at the intersection of business, entrepreneurship, and technology. Together they dis...
Breaking Barriers to Progress - Achim Steiner - Head of United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Awake At Night - June 27, 2024 02:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsBorn in Brazil to German parents, Achim Steiner knows first hand the power of cultural exchange to drive international cooperation. Now head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), he leads global efforts to secure a better future for our planet and its people. “The clearest lesson f...
Food Poverty, Breastmilk and Blood Metals
Think Global, Do Justice - June 25, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsToday on the show we are weaving in and out of various topics, largely surrounding Africa and that touch areas of malnutrition (continent-wide) and trafficking (Congo) and even some really beautiful solutions for helping babies (Uganda). We have Dr. Lauren Pinkston of Kindred Exchange on the sho...
Human rights is our strongest tool - Volker Türk - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Awake At Night - June 20, 2024 04:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsVolker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, he has devoted his life and career to helping the world’s most vulnerable people. “What has always struck me was encounters with people who a...
Tiffany Bluhm - Contemplative Formation for the Life of Justice
Think Global, Do Justice - June 18, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIn episode 257, Brandon welcomes author and nonprofit director Tiffany Bluhm back to the show. Tiffany is the Executive Director at Made for Pax, a Christian foundation which provides mentorship and vocational development for BIPOC leaders following Christ. The work is specifically employing con...
Poetry as a Means of Defending Human Rights in Uganda
Justice Matters - June 17, 2024 17:44 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Danson Kahyana, a fellow at the Carr Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Makerere University in Uganda. His recent work includes an examination of the effects of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act...
Everybody has Purpose - Amy Pope - Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Awake At Night - June 13, 2024 17:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsAmy Pope has always championed humane and orderly migration as an opportunity for societies, not a problem. Now the first female Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) she is campaigning for a fundamental shift in attitudes towards newcomers. “You just give some...
Yasmine Vaughan - Collaborating Together for Global Health
Think Global, Do Justice - June 11, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIn episode 256, Brandon and Phil get a crash course in global health from Yasmine Vaughan. Yasmine has her Master's in Public Health and serves as the Technical Advisor for Global Health and Missions with Helping Children Worldwide. Beyond sharing words and conditions that we can't even pronounc...
A Privilege to Serve Humanity - Joyce Msuya - OCHA - Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Awake At Night - June 07, 2024 11:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsBig or small, Joyce Msuya has always found ways to give back. Now Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, she oversees the global response to the world’s worst crises. “For me, pers...
Dave LeVan and Jon Allen - When Global Ministries Merge
Think Global, Do Justice - June 04, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsJoining the podcast for episode 255 are nonprofit leaders Dave LeVan and Jon Allen with Water For Good. Dave and Jon speak with Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke about the status of worldwide access to water and what it looks like to implement Water, Sanitation and Hygiene projects in the Global Sou...
Reversing the Global Backlash Against LGBTQI+ Rights
Justice Matters - June 03, 2024 13:53 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Maggie Gates talks with Diego Garcia Blum, Program Director of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work is dedicated to advocating for the safety and acceptance of LGB...
With AI, We’re Building the Plane Mid-Flight - Doreen Bogdan-Martin - International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General
Awake At Night - May 30, 2024 18:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsDoreen Bogdan-Martin’s fascinating career handed her a front row seat for the digital revolution. Now Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), she’s among those leading global efforts to set guardrails on the use of Artificial Intelligence. “I think we've neve...
Refugees, Maternal Health and Child Marriage
Think Global, Do Justice - May 28, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIn this month's 3+1 episode, we're diving into conversation around the current refugee crisis being fueled by conflict and displacement worldwide, jump back into recent conversation on Haiti and the challenges that pregnant mothers are facing in the midst of tumult and also look at the controver...
Practising Immigration and Refugee Law in Hawai'i with Esther Yoo
Migration Conversations - May 25, 2024 19:21 - 55 minutesMeet Esther Yoo, Director of the Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i. We talk about how immigration and refugee law clients and issues are unique in Hawai'i and the kind of representation and challenges her clinic and students...
Unlocking the Power of Youth - Jayathma Wickramanayake - Sr. policy advisor, UN Women
Awake At Night - May 24, 2024 06:42 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsAppointed to a senior UN role aged just 26, Jayathma Wickramanayake’s career trajectory testifies to the power of education. Now senior policy advisor at UN Women, she is working to empower all women and girls to fulfill their potential – whatever their background. “I was never told that becau...
Home Rule and Nandita Sharma
Migration Conversations - May 23, 2024 00:47 - 58 minutesMeet Dr. Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Her provocative book interrogates the nation-state system and the anti-colonial and post-colonial aspiration to seek nationalized sovereignty through a terr=itorialized form - that sover...
Matt Rhodes - A Manifesto for Modern Missions
Think Global, Do Justice - May 21, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsOn the show today, we're joined by missionary Matt Rhodes who is the author of No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions. He talks with Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke about trends within missions that emphasize speed and big numbers, but often lack the depth of discipleship that cha...
No Place Like Home - Mohamed Yahya - UN Resident Coordinator, Pakistan
Awake At Night - May 16, 2024 22:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsA former child refugee, Mohamed Yahya knows the life-long pain of yearning for a lost home. That’s why some of his most emotional experiences with the United Nations have involved helping displaced people return to their towns years after they fled a brutal conflict. “A little bit of me wa...
From the Frontlines: Reflections on Decades of the Racial Justice Movement
Justice Matters - May 15, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse talks with Gay McDougall, distinguished scholar in residence at Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law and member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Professor...
Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 2)
Migration Conversations - May 13, 2024 13:51 - 37 minutesMeet Dr. Kyle Kajihiro who teaches at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Ethnic Studies and Geography and Environment. His research focuses on U.S. imperial formations, militarization, and Indigenous and decolonial social movements in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region. He is also a founding membe...
Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 1)
Migration Conversations - May 13, 2024 13:47 - 58 minutesMeet Dr. Kyle Kajihiro who teaches at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Ethnic Studies and Geography and Environment. His research focuses on U.S. imperial formations, militarization, and Indigenous and decolonial social movements in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region. He is also a founding membe...
The Human Cost of War - Philippe Lazzarini - Head of UNRWA
Awake At Night - May 10, 2024 16:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsPhilippe Lazzarini holds one of the most challenging positions in the whole of the United Nations. As head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he is leading the backbone of the humanitarian operation in Gaza. “Ceasefire, ceasefire, cea...
Gaston Warner - This is Child Empowerment
Think Global, Do Justice - May 07, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWe are joined today by global nonprofit leader Gaston Warner who is the Global North CEO of Zoe Empowers. Gaston talks with Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke about their work among vulnerable families, especially child and youth headed households. Over the years, our show has talked a lot about the ...
Season 9
Awake At Night - May 03, 2024 13:37 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsConflict, humanitarian disasters, climate change. Our world and its people are facing huge challenges. Wherever and whenever crisis hits, the United Nations staff are both on the ground saving lives and negotiating at the highest levels to alleviate suffering. This work is only possible due to t...
Justice for Victims: Lessons from Around the World
Justice Matters - May 01, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn today's episode of Justice Matters, co-host Kathryn Sikkink talks with Phuong Pham and Geoff Dancy about the Carr Center’s Transitional Justice Program, the culmination of the program’s research, and the creation of a research repository on the newly released Transitional Justice Evaluation T...
Alternate Economies and Climate Change (April 3+1)
Think Global, Do Justice - April 30, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIn this 3+1 episode, we're getting into recent news about ways that Russia is getting around economic sanctions to buoy their economy during their war of aggression as well a couple Asian countries where pollution and contamination is having widespread effects on people's health and wellbeing. W...
Dr. Karen Fancher - Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Think Global, Do Justice - April 23, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratings"We stand together at the foot of the cross and we will work for peace." Dr. Karen Fancher from Multnomah University joins the show today to walk us through the profoundly Christian field of peacebuilding. In her conversation with Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke, Dr. Fancher walks us through what ...
Indigenous Sovereignty and Human Rights in the United States
Justice Matters - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOn today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse talks with Angela Riley, Chief Justice of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at UCLA, about indigenous sovereignty and human rights in the United States. Together they discuss: the Citizen Po...
Eugene Cho - Advocating for the Hungry
Think Global, Do Justice - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWe are privileged to be joined today by a Christian leader that really embodies the ethic that we are all striving for as we pursue justice, mercy and shalom in the nations. We're grateful to have Eugene Cho join Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke on the show today talking with us about the work of B...
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