Peace Talks Radio

The 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 doctors avoid professional burnout. Our host Megan Kamerick talks with three guests. First is Dr. Rana Awdish, who learned a harrowing lesson when she went from being a critical care physician to a critical care patient in her own hospital - the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. A tumor on her liver ruptured during her pregnancy and she nearly died. Awdish found there was a shocking lack of empathy among her colleagues and realized many of the faults she saw she had committed herself as a doctor. Also, Dr. David Rakel talks

Conversation 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.

Trauma 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 arise due to them. Suzanne Kryder talks with three guests. Dr. Josie Chase, an expert on healing inter-generational massive group trauma particularly in people who are Native American. Also, Matthew Sanford, a yoga teacher, author and paraplegic for the last thirty-nine years due to a car accident. Also Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD, a pioneer in recognizing and healing trauma and author of the book, "The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma".

At 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 Luther King, Jr.

Our 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.

Peace 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 in 2017. It's been a big part of the national conversation since.

Massasoit 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 the new strangers. Also, Native American film director Chris Eyre on his portrayal of Massasoit for the 2009 PBS television series "We Shall Remain".

Could 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. Guests include Dr. Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; her work is in sustainable development and violence. Also, John Seager, President and CEO of Population Connection which works to ensure that every woman around the world who wants to delay or end childbearing has access to the health services and contraceptive supplies she needs in order to do so. Suzanne Kryder hosts.

Periodically 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 provoked to act aggressively. And skirmishes have resulted. Fractions of both groups choose violence. One of the high profile confrontations was in Charlottesville, Virginia in the summer of 2017…and there have been others. It’s all sparked a debate about appropriate and effective ways to demonstrate peacefully to counter hate speech and extreme ideologies. One core riddle seems to have been, whether people of good conscience and compassion should NOT show up to white supremacist rallies and just ignore the hate speech, whether the

In 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 sentence for trying to overthrow the Chinese government. In this rebroadcast of our 2012 program, 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, details Xiaobo's key role in the Tiananmen Square turmoil of 1989, and offers perspective on Xiaobo's political writing. Paul Ingles hosts.

September 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 least a hopeful moment for peace. Although the Oslo Accords didn’t result in a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine, how they came to be at all makes for a fascinating study in the hope for change, the persistence and bravery of negotiators on both sides of a conflict, and, in this case, the dogged determination of two Norwegian peacemakers who drove the whole process. A stage dramatization of the story of OSLO was written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher. It started modestly in 2016 at a small theater at

In 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.

The 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.

Part 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.

A 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.

Conversation with religious scholar Will Keepin and artist Paul Re who established a peace prize to honor modern day peacemakers in New Mexico.

Conversation 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 Gruber, author of "War: The Afterparty – A Global Walkabout through a Half-Century of U.S. Military Interventions". His book documents his world tour through countries that the U.S. has sent its military in the past 5 decades: Southeast Asia, the Greater Middle East, the Balkans and Central America. Gruber talks with political and religious leaders, citizens, writers, teachers, mothers and combatants who witnessed a turbulent history. Gruber wonders: Do we accomplish in war what we say we will? After the party is over, wha

Our 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.

On 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.

Three 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.