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Peace Talks Radio
By Paul InglesSociety & Culture
Peace Talks Radio episodes
- Healing Trauma
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".59 min - The Best of 2013-2017
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.59 min - Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2017)
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.59 min - Steering Our Youngsters Away From Sexual Misconduct
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.59 min - Massasoit's Peace Pact With The Pilgrims
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".59 min - Population Growth and Peace
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.59 min - Challenging Hate Speech
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 they should show up and engage in comedic put
downs of the extremist groups, or whether to show up and actively
out-shout and out number them, or should they be even more aggressive in
confronting the hate speech purveyors, as the groups that came to be known
as ANTI-FA for anti-fascist, tried in chasing and harassing the white
power groups. We’re going to offer our own conversation on the topic
today…Our guests are social activist and author John Dear, Jesuit priest who’s
written extensively on Gandhi as well as books like Living Peace, Peace
Behind Bars, and A Persistent Peace.Tonya Covington is Director of Conflict Resolution at Outcomes, Inc. in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tonya has been a trained mediator and teacher of
mediation for 27 years. Tonya has expertise in Workplace and
Cross-cultural conflict.Brian Levin is a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center
for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San
Bernadino. He is a court certified expert on extremism in both the US and
the UK and has testified before both houses of Congress. He has also
consulted for the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, as well as for
universities and civil rights groups.We’ve also heard on tape from Frank Meeink – a former skinhead who now
lectures on tolerance and compassion after long ago quitting is
association with neo-Nazi groups.59 min - Remembering Liu Xiaobo
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.59 min - Peacemaking on Stage: OSLO
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 New York’s Lincoln Center. Later it advanced to the Lincoln Center’s
Broadway stage, and went on to win the award for BEST PLAY at 2017’s Tony
Awards.Today on Peace Talks Radio, host Paul Ingles talks with both OSLO
playwright JT Rogers and director Bartlett Sher about the peacemaking
lessons on display in the acclaimed play.59 min - Is This What Peaceful Democracy Looks Like?Handling Political Stress
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.59 min
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