Peace Talks Radio

A 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 efforts are trying to flip extremists to bolster peace. Why should we care about these efforts, and what role, if any, can WE play in such efforts? We will hear from Pieter Van Ostaeyen, a Belgium-based independent analyst on jihadist groups worldwide. Also, Elizabeth Pearson, a Lecturer in Criminology with the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. And Mubin Shaikh, a former extremist, who will help us understand how he helps young people get deradicalized.

On 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.

How 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 participants from an intensive course in theatre of the oppressed this summer. Finally, you’ll enjoy an immersive taster from a live theatre of the oppressed production.

On 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.

It'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.

This 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 is a very big problem in India, which also gives a negative perception of the animal. But Gerry is trying to change that. We will also talk to Petros Chrysafis, a wildlife conservationist based in California, focusing on mitigating human-wildlife conflicts in the region. He tells us more about how he has established predator monitoring tools and non-lethal deterrent measures to ensure livestock and wildlife coexist safely. Lastly, we will hear from Paul Pebsworth, a primatologist who has worked on mitigating human-wildli

We’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 panic among viewers to keep them engaged. But Deggans thinks the responsibility for how much we take in is ours.

On 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 personality disorders.

On 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, Maria Silvia, Karl Steyaert, and Diana Leafe Christian.

What 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 taking this problem head-on we need to equip teenagers with the adequate knowledge and emotional skills at an early age. On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we go in-depth to understand the psychology of abuse and break-up violence, the precedents set by media about relationships, and the programs that can help alleviate the problem. Yamini Ranjan talks with three experts including Dr. Malcolm Astley, a father and educator who lost his daughter to break-up violence, Jessica Teperow, Director of Prevention programs a

The 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 shortcomings and the calls to reform it. Guests are Dr. Kjetil Tronvoll, professor of peace and conflict studies at Oslo New University College in Norway and Dr. Comfort Ero who is the president and CEO of International Crisis Group.

Every 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 gives the gist of how European countries have been handling the migration crisis induced by the war in Ukraine. Other guests are Bram Frouws, the head of the research platform Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) in Geneva. and .Vasco Malta, the head of the UN’s migration agency in Portugal, to understand how Portugal getting better marks on their immigration systems from human rights watchdogs.

On 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 psychiatrist, Dr. Julian Xue, Chinese-American author Iris Chen, and Chinese-Canadian trauma recovery coach Sherry Yuan Hunter.

On 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 communicate – over whatever platform has been available at the time. By understanding how we are primed as a species to use and experience false information, we can check our impulses and use the tools available to us to stop its influence.

Perhaps, 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 Anarcho Pacifists have often been in the front of efforts at peaceful, non-violent resistance for social change.

This 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.

It'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.

PEACE 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 ourselves or each other. We'll ask our guests, media literacy advocates and teachers, about it. And while the idea of teaching media literacy in schools has been kicked around for about 25 years, to promote critical analysis by students of advertising and other mediated messages, the movement hasn't really taken off.

On 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 program in the series focuses on various OTHER forms of Community Building. Correspondent Suzanne Kryder looks into some effective programs in 3 diverse areas of the world that challenge everyone to bring their best to help improve the mood of a place and find common ground with each other to heal. Guests include: Dr. Ivis Garcia, Assistant Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, Julie Garreau, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She’s been executive director of the Cheyenne River Yo

Millions 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 failure and what we can learn from activists outside the United States. Also, a visit with Marianna King, author of "The Crisis of School Violence: A New Perspective". She takes an in-depth approach to questions about bullying and shooting rampages in schools. She looks at psychological and neuroscientific research on the effects of violent entertainment media on brain development. King also looks at possible solutions for parents, teachers and decision makers.