Peace Talks Radio

Peace Talks Radio

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Peace Talks Radio episodes

  • Making Peace With Nature
    AFTER THE TOXIC SPILLS: MAKING PEACE WITH NATURE. When the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded in April of 2010 and set off the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, virtually everyone viewing the disruption - to wildlife and the lives of people in that region - was devastated. Here at Peace talks Radio, we guessed that the event probably set off an inner conflict in many about humans’ relationship with nature. Then there was the toxic sludge spill in Hungary. So we sought out some voices of people who have already placed that relationship with nature at the center of their lives to see how their experiences and thinking might help us all grapple with this conflict. A lot of the headlines during the three months when the oil gushed into the gulf framed the event as an attack or war on nature. How can we think and act to make peace with nature, especially in the wake of such environmental disasters? On this show we speak with Dr. Daniel Scwartz, a social ecology professor at the University of New Mexico. Also Kathy Sanchez, a Native American environmental policy activist, and John Francis,whose response to an oil spill in 1971 was to quit riding in motorized vehicles for 22 years, walk all across the country and, during 17 of those years, not to speak a word. Carol Boss is host. Read about it and hear it right now by clicking here.
    59 min
  • Peacemaking from the "Third Side"

    Do you work to transform destructive conflict into cooperation? Can you take the "Third Side" in the conflicts around you even when you’re a party to the conflict? The "Third Side" looks at conflict not just from one side or the other but from the larger perspective of the surrounding community, or “third side.” This time on Peace Talks Radio, host Suzanne Kryder talks with Dr. William Ury, co-founder of Harvard University's Program on Negotiation and author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes and Getting to Peace (released in paperback under the title The Third Side). Dr. Ury has worked as a mediator and negotiator for over 30 years in corporate mergers, wildcat strikes in a Kentucky coal mine, and among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. He says that it takes two sides to fight, and a third to stop; that third side can transform our daily battles into creative conflict and cooperation at home, work, and in the world.

    We’ll also talk with people who have used the Third Side approach to ending conflict in their communities: Danna Smith who works with the Dogwood Alliance, an nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize diverse voices to defend the unique forests and communities of the Southern US from destructive industrial forestry, and Gachi Tapia who has worked as trainer for several institutions in Latin America, East Europe and ex Yugoslavia. She has collaborated with experts in interventions aimed at a constructive transformation of social and political conflicts in Venezuela 2004, Middle East 2004, Bolivia 2008.

    59 min
  • Youth Voices on Peacemaking
    This time we talk with young people to hear their ideas about what it takes to make peace and resolve conflict. Second to fifth grade students have a lot of good ideas as it turns out. We talked with a diverse group of 15 youngsters who were attending Sunday youth activities one morning at Albuquerque's First Unitarian Church. We also visited with three teen members of KUNM's Youth Radio Project: Luke Iha, Bashar Jawad and Amanja Lambert.
    59 min
  • Peace in Prison
    Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution, features Jane Davis of Hope-Howse. In December 1993, Jane was asked to be a media witness at an electric chair execution in Georgia. She says witnessing the execution made everything inside her go "haywire." She writes, "This isolated act of killing another human being...left no alternatives. It took away all hope." Since then Jane has been travelling to death rows and prisons around the country and around the world, counseling inmates to help them find the goodness inside them and help them
    achieve some inner peace. She has worked with at-risk youth as well and has advocated against the death penalty. "Hope-Howse" stands for "Help Other People Evolve through Honest Open Willing Self Evaluation." She talks about her work with Carol Boss.
    In part two of the program, we rebroadcast our visit with musician and death penalty opponent Steve Earle from 2005 and hear some voices in support of the death penalty from the debate in the New Mexico State Legislature that year. New Mexico ultimately abolished the death penalty in 2009.
    59 min
  • Playing For Change
    17 million views on You Tube to date. That's the number of times the unique rendition of the song "Stand By Me" has been seen on the internet. The song featured contributions from street musicians and indigenous performers around the world, all playing to the same basic track recorded in Santa Monica, CA by music producer and engineer Mark Johnson. The good vibe from the collaboration inspired a whole CD called Songs Around The World, a DVD called Peace Through Music, a live tour, and a non-profit organization called the Playing For Change Foundation that has raised money to build music schools in developing countries. Can a project like this really promote peace in a noticeable way? On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, Carol Boss talks with both Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt of Playing for Change, as well as with two of the music performers - Clarence Bekker from The Netherlands and Mermans Kenkosenki from South Africa - about this remarkable project.
    59 min
  • SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: THE PEACE TALKS RADIO SPECIAL (2009)
    Despite ongoing turmoil and conflict in our world, there are still people who are working for peace. Listen for the annual compendium of highlights from the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Listeners will hear about the Dalai Lama's commitment to peace, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's peace work, peace lessons from the annual Rainbow Gatherings and from international water negotiations. Other programs spotlighting a community art project and an international pen pal project for peace will be recalled. Plus comments on peace building through travel with Rick Steves, reduction of nuclear arsenals from Nobel Peace prize Laureate Dr. Bernard Lown and a word from Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise (really!). It's an uplifting and empowering hour. Paul Ingles hosts with Suzanne Kryder and Carol Boss.
    59 min
  • Poems and Pen Pals for Peace
    Kim Rosen, author of the book Saved by a Poem, talks about how people struggling with personal conflict can find peace, comfort and perspective in the words of poetry and song. She also sees a role for poetry in international negotiations that address conflict on a broader scale. Also on the program, Sarah Wilkinson tells about the Peace Pal Project which connects school children in different parts of the world through a pen pal initiative and conflict resolution curriculum that,she says, broadens understanding and gives young people tools to address the conflicts that may lay ahead in their lives. Carol Boss is the host.
    59 min
  • Can Water Negotiations Point The Way To Peace?
    This time we explore the question, will managing the world's overtaxed water supply lead to more conflict or actually be a compelling catalyst to peace? The fact is that, so far, cooperation rather than conflict over water is the norm around the world. That's according to Oregon State University Professor Aaron Wolf, co-author of the book Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts, who's been facilitating solutions to water conflicts for years and sees many lessons in peacemaking emerging from the experience. “Water hits us at a profoundly different level than other resources,” he says. “People are willing to do horrible things to each other. What they seem not willing to do is turn off each other’s water.” Host Carol Boss talks with Aaron Wolf on this edition of Peace Talks Radio
    Also, a chat with Matt and Christina Berlin who took some Oakland school kids to Kenya for a horizons-expanding experience, then got deeply involved in the effort to help a rural Kenyan community purify it's dangerous water supply. The two talk about their up close experience with water's role in improving the health and dignity of a community and making it less susceptible to conflict.
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  • Rainbow Gathering Peace Lessons
    In 1516, Sir Thomas More published the book, “Utopia,” a word he coined for an ideal, imaginary island nation. His book describes a perfect socio-political-legal society that’s free of poverty and suffering. Even though utopia comes from Greek words meaning “no place” and indicates that More considered it an impossible goal, groups throughout history have tried to create idyllic, peaceful communities. On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore an on-going utopian experiment, the Rainbow Gathering-a loosely-knit group of anarchists holding temporary gatherings in remote rural areas since 1972. Host Suzanne Kryder interviews Dr. Michael Niman, author of People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, about the group’s efforts to practice nonviolent, nonhierarchical cooperative living with each other and the earth. The program includes interviews and first-hand reports from Suzanne’s participation in the 38th annual Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico, July 2009. The Peace Talks Radio series is produced by the non-profit media organization, Good Radio Shows, Inc. Visit online at www.peacetalksradio.com.
    59 min
  • Arts + Parks
    This time on Peace Talks Radio, we explore a program that transforms
    troubled neighborhoods into more peaceful, secure places through art,
    learning, land transformation and economic development. Host Carol Boss
    speaks with Lily Yeh, co-founder of two organizations dedicated to
    re-building communities: The Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc. and, more
    recently, Barefoot Artists, Inc. In North Philadelphia, Yeh, with a group
    of neighborhood residents (mostly children), cleared a trash-strewn vacant
    lot and began to build an art park that incorporated mosaic sculptures,
    murals, and landscaping with trees and flowers. Over the next few years,
    Yeh's project was joined by artists, builders, educators and a growing
    number of community residents caught up in the vision of creating a more
    peaceful community. Yeh's ideas that helped bring the North Philadelphia
    neighborhood back to life are now being applied to projects in Rwanda,
    Kenya, Ecuador and China.
    59 min

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