Peace Talks Radio

Peace Talks Radio

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  • Improving Relations Between Citizen's and Police

    In some communities in the United States, the relationship is frayed

    between law enforcement officers and the citizens they are sworn to serve.

    Some high profile police shootings or overly aggressive police encounters

    with citizens captured on video by police cams or citizens have only

    intensified the tension in some places. Since one of our goals in the

    PEACE TALKS RADIO series is to provide a forum that might lead to

    nonviolent conflict resolution strategies, we’ve sampled opinions from 13

    people, all stakeholders in the issue, and asked each what they thought

    might help most to improve the relationship between the police and the

    citizenry. Then we followed up with a few questions for each. Current

    and former police officers, city councilors, community leaders, police

    trainers, and criminologists all suggest ways to bring more peace around

    the sometimes frayed connection between citizens and police.

    Guests include Steven Herbert, University of Washington Professor;

    Cleveland City Councilor Zack Reed; Former Albuquerque Police Department

    employee Karen Fischer, Albuquerque Police officers John Garcia, Shermane

    Carter and Brian Werle; Bernalillo County Deputies Aaron Schwartz and

    Autumn Neas; Santa Fe Police Officer Gardner Finney; Jim Ginger, CEO of

    Public Management Rources; Mike Scott, former police officer and director

    of the Center for Problem Oriented Policing: Greg Saville, police training

    expert and former police officer; Glenn Ivey, former prosecutor and former

    state's attorney in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

    59 min
  • Considering Loneliness

    Put the words "murder" and "loner" into a web search and you won’t have

    any shortage of matches. Certainly it’s been a characteristic used to

    describe several perpetrators of mass violence in the fairly recent past.

    Some research about loneliness, and those who retreat deeply into it,

    suggests that a significant number suffer physical and emotional risks of

    their own…which sometimes can trigger backlash behavior against society.

    Statistics suggest that the percentages of people living alone keeps

    moving steadily forward and the number of people who report being lonely

    at any given point in time has jumped from 20% in 1980 to 40% more

    recently. A Guardian column was titled, THE AGE OF LONELINESS IS KILLING

    US, while on the other hand, a Psychology Today column was titled THE

    HAPPY LONER and began with the words “Loners get a bad rap.”

    We had a number of conversations with folks who have studied what’s

    happening when loneliness develops, how it can devolve into anti-social

    behavior, but more important still, how it can upset personal peace and

    lead to an aching depression and physical challenges and a compromised

    hope for a longer life. Our guests also reflect on how an individual can

    get help and how those close to a lonely loved one can offer support.

    And one of our guests wants to make sure we don’t stigmatize all people

    who choose freely to live alone-- at no risk to themselves or others.

    Guests: Dr. Louise Hawkley, Dr. Steven Asher, Dr. Bella DePaulo and

    licensed therapist Robert Thomson. Paul Ingles hosts.

    59 min
  • Forgiveness and Redemption Following the Death of Amy Biehl

    On this edition of Peace Talks Radio…forgiveness on a grand scale as the family of slain American anti-apartheid activist Amy Biehl work together with two men who were involved in her 1993 murder in South Africa after the men were granted amnesty through the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We’ll hear from Amy’s mother, Linda Biehl, as well as Easy Nofemela, one of the two men granted amnesty, who now seem more like family to the Biehls as they and others work to improve conditions for South African youth and improve race relations. Also Marina Cantacuzino, the founder of the Forgiveness Project which has elevated this and dozens of other extraordinary stories of forgiveness. Paul

    Ingles hosts with Megan Kamerick.

    59 min
  • Using Sports to Point to Peace
    This time on Peace Talks Radio, how sports can be used to point to peace. While sports headlines these days are as much about pro football players facing domestic violence,  child abuse, shooting crime charges and crippling game injuries, there are still examples of the potential for sports to bring together athletes from all ethnicities, nationalities and sexual preferences to bond and celebrate the fun, skill and mutual respect of sport.  We spotlight an annual sporting event that on the surface may seem sort of small – a two day summer basketball camp in the border city of El Paso, Texas.  But the hearts behind the camp seem sort of large and the perspective the camp offers is sort of large too.  Carol Boss talked with Rus Bradburd, one of the directors of "Basketball In The Barrio." Bradburd is a former collegiate basketball player and coach who both loves sports, sees some potential for good in it, but also doesn’t especially like where sports has come to sit in the order of priorities.  He was led to use sports as an avenue to teach other lessons in establishing his annual camp. Also, we visit with Doug Harris, the executive director of the Athletes United for Peace, the camp’s parent organization, about other initiatives that use sports to promote unity, diplomacy and peace.   Plus, a conversation with former collegiate basketball star and NBA player, Len Elmore, who also believes in the uniting power of sports, but wishes its pro athletes would speak up MORE often on social justice and peace issues. Carol Boss and Paul Ingles host.
    59 min
  • Raising Boys (Part 2)
    This is the second of two programs exploring the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to violence and crime and sexual domination. Young boys and sex will be the focus of this program.
    Among the statistics that we heard in the first program are these sex-related crimes – the super huge majority committed by men, young men or boys – 87% of stalkers are male, 86% of domestic violence assaults resulting in physical injury are done by males, 99% of rapes are committed by males. Some high profile rapes and shootings have involved a certain misogyny like the apparently misogynistic mass shooting in 2014 in Santa Barbara by a young man who seemed to be settling the score with young women who wouldn't go out with him.
    These cases have many of us wondering. Not wondering so much about where those messages are coming from. Everybody seems to know that although we debate which is more at fault, the misogynistic messages and perpetration of sexual myths come from other adults, sometimes in the same household as young boys, and they come from the media – books, magazines, movies, the internet, advertising, television. In a nation of freedom of speech and low government regulation, most seem to accept that doing anything about the media end of the equation seems to be a lost cause. A perhaps debatable conclusion which we’ve covered in other Peace Talks Radio programs on video game violence for example.
    But we also wonder how to counter or balance the impact of the many messages of sexual objectification and gender inequality that are aimed at our boys. And that’s where we’ll spend a good bit of our time with our guests today on Peace Talks Radio.
    Guests include:
    Dr. Victor Lacerva, co-founder of New Mexico Men’s Wellness and author of the book Masculine Wisdom ; Dr. Joseph Marshall, a
    former educator in San Francisco who left teaching behind to study and try to end youth violence. Also neuroscientist Dr. Lise Eliot from the Chicago Medical school and the author of a book Pink Brain Blue Brain. Suzanne Kryder hosts with Paul Ingles.
    59 min
  • Raising Boys (Part 1)
    Statistics show that males commit about 90% of all the murders and almost all of the other violent crime in the United States.  On these programs, we’ve chosen to not just list the symptoms and multiple sources contributing to the culture of violence in the U.S., but to look upstream to learn what parents and the community can do to understand why some boys and men are drawn to violent themes and sometimes turn violent.  We’re asking our panel, what we can do to catch our boys and young men before they fall into the abyss of the criminal justice system or worse, lose their lives and take others with them.  Our next
    episode will focus on the sometimes confused takes on gender and sexual roles that young men sometimes develop - becoming misogynistic, domineering and sometimes violent  in their intimate relationships.
    Suzanne Kryder hosts.
    Our guests include a former educator in San Francisco who left teaching behind to study youth violence and try to end it.  Dr. Joseph Marshall runs the Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers program there.  "Street Soldier" is the name of one of his books on the subject.   Also we’ll hear from Dr. Victor La Cerva, co-founder of New Mexico Men’s Wellness and author of the book "Masculine Wisdom".   And we also visit with   Dr. Lise Eliot of the Chicago Medical school about boys and men’s brains and hormones.  She’s the author of the book "Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps – and What We Can Do About It".
    59 min
  • Compassion and Empathy Thwart School Shooter
    August 20, 2013, school clerk Antoinette Tuff was at her job at a Suburban Atlanta elementary school of 800 students. She was only temporarily filling in at the front office, when an agitated 20 year old man carrying an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition came in threatening to open fire.
    Now you may not remember this story because it only made news for about a day or two. There were no deaths, there was no community in mourning, no reporters camping out for the funerals a week later, and there was no shooter turning the gun on himself or a good guy with a gun finishing the suspect off. There was, however, Antoinette Tuff, the 46 year old school clerk there , using calm words, empathy and compassion --- while most of the time, having an open line to the 911 operator…and truly being in the line of fire.
    In part, what Antoinette Tuff employed was a kind of nonviolent communication that we’ve covered before on PEACE TALKS RADIO. We go back into our archive to re-visit one of those conversations with NVC expert Jorge Rubio.
    59 min
  • Conscientious Objectors In The All-voluntees U.S. Military
    If one had a philosophical or religious objection to military service, why would they volunteer? The modern CO application, as it’s called, comes from those who sign up for service, but come to their conscientious objection during their tour of duty, like Dante Searcy and Fanny Garcia who tell us their stories of being granted “CO” status on this program. Also on this program, we hear from Maria Santelli, the Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War, an organization that began in 1940 and today offers assistance to people like Searcy and Garcia to prepare their Conscientious Objection applications that go before Pentagon Panels for review. We placed three calls over the course of a week to the public affairs office at the Pentagon to get the Defense Department take on the Conscientious Objector discussion, but no one returned our calls.
    59 min
  • Making Peace With Disability
    Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability two years after experiencing an AVM, an arteriovenous malformation, which disabled her in 2012, compromising her speech and movement. She shares details of her experience living with the disability and offers some ideas about how the disabled and non-disabled
    world can get along better. She also asks others about it - attendees at a 2013 disability conference and a college professor and researcher whosuffered a spinal injury herself and has written about these issues.
    59 min

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