Repurposing Guns: A Step Towards Peace
On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, turning tools of violence…into talismans of change. We hear from two innovators helping communities reimagine the deadly weapons in their midst.
May 10, 2025•59 min
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A Path to Peace with Chronic Pain
On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, Anna Van Dine interviews people who experience chronic pain and speaks with experts who provide tools to cope with it.
Apr 10, 2025•59 min
Volunteering as a Human Shield: Peace in Action
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we hear from people who chose to physically stand in the way of war. Volunteering to serve as a “human shield” is an intense act of self-sacrifice. But those who have done it say it‘s saved many lives.
Mar 11, 2025•59 min
Play for Peace
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore the connection between peace and play, and its impact on treating trauma. The importance of play was recognized globally when the UN General Assembly declared June 11th as the International Day of Play. Correspondent Nadeen Shaker speaks to experts from various organizations about why play is important as a tool for peace.
Feb 18, 2025•59 min
The Toll of Overtourism: Seeking a Peaceful Balance
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore the issue of overtourism. Destinations around the globe are facing the impact of tourism on local residents, cultures, economies, and the environment. How can we ensure this impact is a positive one, and minimize the conflict and harm that our travel can cause? Correspondent Michelle Aslam speaks with tourism experts on how our travel can be a source of conflict, and a tool for peace. Journalist and author Paige McClanahan speaks about her book Th...
Jan 16, 2025•59 min
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2024)
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 "Bridging Political Division", as well as from our programs on"Solutions to Gun Violence", "Intergenerational Connection", "Healing through Psychedelics", "AI: Risks and Benefits for Peace", "When Digital Addiction Threatens Family Peace", and more.
Dec 13, 2024•59 min
Resist or Retreat: In Search of Peace
On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we hear the story about a couple who made the difficult decision to leave a place that was not safe, what it took to make it, and how they are settling into their new life. Alaina and her wife Jeannie lived in Tennessee for many years. But as the political climate has shifted, it became untenable for Alaina to exist as a trans woman there. In 2023, the couple made the difficult decision to uproot from their community and relocate to southern Vermont. They're...
Nov 21, 2024•59 min
When Digital Addiction Threatens Family Peace
On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Julia Joubert, looks at how digital addiction is affecting communication between parents and teens, and together with her guests, discusses ways to help families strengthen their relationships in a world where constant connectivity is the norm. Over the past decade, smartphone use among teens has skyrocketed, with 95% of teens now owning one. As they spend over 44 hours per week on screens, many struggle with concentration, social isolation, an...
Nov 19, 2024•59 min
Healing Through Psychedelics
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’re exploring the world of therapeutic psychedelic drugs. After a golden age of research in the 1950s and 1960s, research on therapeutic uses of psychedelics was grounded for much of the 20th century after they were classified as schedule 1 drugs. This classification means they have no medical use and a high potential for abuse. In recent years, scientists have challenged those assumptions and this line of research has started to gain new momentum, with pa...
Sep 05, 2024•59 min
AI: The Risks and Benefits To Peace and Social Justice
Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a far-fetched feature of sci-fi, but a daily fixture in most American’s lives — whether we’re aware of it or not. Corporations and authorities are increasingly using A.I. in everything from employment and hiring, to economic decisions to surveillance and war. Police departments in some of the largest cities in the U.S. use predictive policing to forecast criminal activity, militaries use AI systems to help determine targets. Yet humanitarian institutio...
Sep 05, 2024•59 min
Gun Violence Prevention
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore solutions to gun violence in the U.S. from three perspectives - academic, policy and on the streets. Since 2020 firearms have been the leading cause of death in the US for youth. One of the most promising models to address gun violence is Community Violence Intervention (CVI). CVI programs use a localized approach, identify those who are at the highest risk and work to reduce violence through targeted interventions and peer outreach. Emily Cohen s...
May 22, 2024•59 min
Seeking Peace Through Intergenerational Connection
In this edition of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Julia Joubert explores intergenerationl connection. Studies have shown that at least six distinct generations currently live side by side in the United States, and there are almost equal numbers of people of every age alive today. To put that into perspective, we have the same number of people who are seven years old as 70. Yet, while we might be the most age diverse we have ever been, age segregation is also at an all time high. Rapid changes ...
May 02, 2024•59 min
Making Peace with Body Image
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio we explore peace and equality in body image. For centuries we have placed significant importance on beauty and body image. Society, media and pop culture often shape these views and set the standards by which we compare ourselves. But these standards are often exclusionary and unrealistic. A 2021 review by Psychologica Belgica suggests that rejecting beauty ideals, placing less value on appearance, and appreciating one’s body can contribute to a positive body...
May 02, 2024•59 min
Bridging Political Divisions
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or with elected officials, but that it is affecting our relationships with family members, neighbors, and coworkers. This program features voices from people working to mend this division and gives listeners tips to how ask “curious questions” to help find common ground. Emily Cohen speaks with Monica Guzman from Braver Angels, Alyson Spery from StoryCorps...
Feb 26, 2024•59 min
Negotiating Towards Peace: To Release Hostages or Manage Our Daily Lives
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at hostage negotiations. From criminal kidnappings to political pawns, hostage taking is a tragic business that captivates news readers and fills the plots of thrillers, and - as we've seen recently - it's often a core element between nations at war. But far from the dramatic scenes played out in movies and series, what is actually happening behind the scenes? How do hostage negotiators build rapport and trust and come to agreements with ki...
Jan 23, 2024•59 min
SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2023)
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 "Reconciling Estrangement", "Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens", "Flipping Extremists to Bolster Peace", "Peacemaking in Relationships Amidst Health Challenges", "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions", and more.
Jan 23, 2024•59 min
Two Peace Books - by David LaMotte & J. Lawrence Graham
On today's episode, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to songwriter, speaker and author David LaMotte, who wrote WORLD-CHANGING 101: CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF POWERLESSNESS and John Lawrence Graham, the author of the book CHARLOTTE'S WAR to understand each writer's views on peace, war, creative nonviolence and community peace-building in today’s world. Complete coverage on this and 250 other episodes in our series online at https://peacetalksradio.com
Dec 01, 2023•59 min
Peacemaking in Estranged Relationships
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore the incredibly common yet largely undiscussed topic of estrangement. In a national survey, almost 30 percent of American adults reported cutting off contact with a family member. And 1 in 10 reported they’d cut off contact with either a parent or a child. Yet, despite how common it is, people who are estranged from friends or family often experience profound feelings of grief, loneliness and uncertainty. Estrangement can be both voluntary and invo...
Oct 02, 2023•59 min
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at transitional justice through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. We’ve looked at the topic of transitional justice in a 2021 episode, but now look at different examples of Commissions around the globe. From the most famous historical example of the Commission established to investigate abuses under the Apartheid era in South Africa, we’ll look at the evolution of the tool in countries like the Gambia and Colombia following conflict and...
Aug 21, 2023•59 min
Peacemaking Amid Health Challenges in Relationships
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we explore what the sudden onset or revelation of an illness or disorder means for a relationship, be it familial, friendship or romantic. This change can be incredibly frightening, bringing with it emotions like fear, anger, guilt and deep sorrow. These are all valid emotions. Individuals in such situations may have to make a choice either to stay through the sudden change, or to leave a relationship that is no longer serving them or the other. But it is ho...
Aug 21, 2023•59 min
Cultural Appropriation Consideration
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll explore the challenges surrounding conflicts around cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation involves adopting elements from a culture or identity that’s not your own in a way that may be harmful, stereotypical, or exploitative. The lines are harder to draw between cultural appropriation and appreciation. The world is a global village and cultures are constantly interacting, borrowing, remixing, and evolving. However, in case of appropriation, th...
Jun 30, 2023•59 min
Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens
In many urban settings, there is a significant unhoused population on the streets. According to the some recent data, more than half a million people in the United States are unhoused. Many of us want to help but may feel conflicted about how. On this Peace Talks Radio episode, correspondent Emily Cohen explores the dynamics of homelessness with three guests working to assist people living on the street, including Miranda Twitchell who is a leader in the unsheltered community in which she has li...
May 30, 2023•59 min
Flipping Terrorists To Bolster Peace
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 a...
May 02, 2023•59 min
How To Be A Better Ally For Peace and Justice
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.
Apr 05, 2023•59 min
Seeking Peace over Oppression Through Theatre
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 part...
Mar 02, 2023•59 min
20 Years of PEACE TALKS RADIO
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.
Mar 02, 2023•59 min
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022)
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.
Jan 06, 2023•59 min
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence with Wildlife
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 ...
Dec 01, 2022•59 min
Making Peace with Our News Anxiety
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 a...
Oct 31, 2022•59 min
Sharing Living Space Peacefully - Part 2 of 2
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 disor...
Oct 24, 2022•59 min
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