Peace Talks Radio

Peace Talks Radio

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Peace Talks Radio episodes

  • Humanitarian Work for Peace: Doctors Without Borders & The Peace Corps

    Doctors Without Borders has been serving the wounded and sick in conflict,


    disease and disaster sites around the globe since 1971. On this show, the

    organization's Mission Head Suzanne Ceresko talks about its work, which

    earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. In the second half of the program, the

    spotlight is one the Peace Corps which was established in 1961 by U.S.

    president John F. Kennedy. In this segment, five returned Peace Corps

    volunteers share stories and give their perspective on the history of the

    corps. Paul Ingles hosts with help from Carol Boss.

    59 min
  • Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela,Peace Greats Part 1 - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela,and King

    While the PEACE TALKS RADIO series goes out of its way to feature the


    less-heralded peace workers throughout history and in our world today, the

    personalities who rise to the top of world consciousness often do so for

    very good and powerful reasons that deserve more focused attention. On

    this program, we’ve gathered 6 whose stories in the 20th Century, and a

    couple whose stories have continued into the 21st century, who seem linked

    in many ways – and each has left succeeding generations inspiration to

    build on. Asked to name peace leaders, these are the names most people

    on the street would come up with – the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King,

    Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta, Nelson Mandela and Mohandas K. Gandhi. The

    program includes some inspiration from each to create one big, always

    useful, dose of peace thought for us to take in.

    59 min
  • World Histories of Peace

    Two history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for


    peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points

    and more. We’ll hear from both authors today. Canadian scholar Antony

    Adolf and Peter Stearns, Professor of History and former Provost of George

    Mason University in Virginia.

    59 min
  • Peaceful Meditation For School Kids

    Some schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation


    techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The

    results have been encouraging at some locations including reductions in

    fighting and suspensions along with a bump up in grades. Two programs (in

    Albuquerque and San Francisco) are spotlighting in this episode of Peace

    Talks Radio

    59 min
  • The Neuroscience of Peacemaking

    We talk with two experts about how advances in the field of neuroscience


    may transform conflict resolution on an individual and global scale. Dr.

    Mari Fitzduff of Brandeis University talks about a hormone that promotes

    peace building and explains how conservatism and liberalism can appear in

    brain scans. Dr. Emile Bruneau, visiting professor at the University of

    Pennsylvania uses neuro-imaging to better understand the often unconscious

    biases that drive conflict.

    59 min
  • Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2015)

    Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of


    programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent

    conflict resolution. Included are conversations about an effort to "cure

    violence" like an infectious disease, improving the relationship between

    police and citizens, understanding and coping with sibling rivalry, an

    indigenous people's history of the United States, and more.

    59 min
  • Commerce With Compassion
    Conversations with people in business who believe that business, social justice, fair labor practices, peacemaking and community building can go hand in hand.
    59 min
  • The History of Peace Studies in the U.S. and a Profile of "Peace Pedalers"
    On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we hear from a professor who’s pulled the stories of those peace studies advocates together in a book. Then we’ll hear from a panel of folks supporting an effort to bring an honest to goodness peace studies class to a New Mexico high school, and later, a conversation with a man who took a tandem bike all around the world to try to promote peace and compassion.
    59 min
  • Reducing Sibling Rivalry

    This time on Peace Talks Radio, the conflict scenario that we’re going to

    look into with our guests is sibling rivalry.

    It's something that seems ubiquitous across cultures and is as old as the

    oldest stories in human history.

    Approximately one-third of adults describe their relationship with their

    siblings as rivalrous or distant. Also, there’s this: A 2005 study put

    the number of assaults each year to children by a sibling at about 35 per

    100 kids – so about a third of children are actually suffering physical

    violence at the hands of siblings. So, although the Smothers Brothers,

    and most sitcoms over the years have made sibling rivalry into an ongoing

    joke, it can lead to serious emotional and physical hurt. We hear ideas

    from our guests about how to reduce that pain – both during childhood and

    into adulthood if those bad feelings endure.

    Our guests are: Samuel Roll, a psychologist and professor emeritus in

    psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; Jeanne Safer,

    a New York psychologist and author; and Atlanta authors and parents Denene

    Millner and Nick Chiles, who have three children, including two teenage

    daughters.

    59 min

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