Peace Talks Radio

On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three

On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll dive into a deeper

Perhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho

Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace

Talks Radio, we’ll talk with a sociology professor and an activist/scholar

who help us understand Anarcho Pacifists. They explain that Anarcho

Pacifists hold that anarchism is a philosophy of non-violence, because it

opposes all domination and power. This includes the strongest form of

domination: violence upon another person. We hear that Anarcho Pacifists

have often been in the front of efforts at peaceful, non-violent

resistance for social change.

This time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, we talk with three guests about “Cities of

Asylum” – also known as “Cities of Refuge” -- communities that put out the

welcome mat for writers, artists, journalists, and human rights defenders

whose work puts them at risk in their home countries.

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 "Healing a Country's Wounds", as well as from our programs,

"Storytelling Solutions for Systemic Conflicts", "Musician/Activists",

"Cities of Peace", "Confronting Suicide", and more.

PEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles postulates that advertising of all

kinds crowds our brains with messages that may not help us to inner peace

or peace among us. Many of us just let TV, radio and online ads wash over

us in our homes, cars and through our devices. We talk with three media

educators who think teaching young people and adults to critically analyze

ad messages may help us build some immunity to the persuasive power the

ads ply to our minds, and to our attitudes about ourselves or each other.

We'll ask our guests, media literacy advocates and teachers, about it. And

while the idea of teaching media literacy in schools has been kicked

around for about 25 years, to promote critical analysis by students of

advertising and other mediated messages, the movement hasn't really taken

off.

On this edition, PEACE TALKS RADIO continues its series on Healing a

Country's Wounds by talking about the strategy of Community Building. Past

Peace Talks Radio programs in this series on how a Country can Heal its

wounds were on Transitional Justice which uses legally mandated

strategies, like Truth and Reconcilliation Commitions, or Reparations.

Part 2 focused on Public Dialogues which see people willingly having

conversations with each other to help communities heal. This third program

in the series focuses on various OTHER forms of Community Building.

Correspondent Suzanne Kryder looks into some effective programs in 3

diverse areas of the world that challenge everyone to bring their best to

help improve the mood of a place and find common ground with each other to

heal. Guests include:

Dr. Ivis Garcia, Assistant Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning at

the University of Utah,

Julie Garreau, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She’s been executive

director of the Cheyenne River Youth Project ever since IT was born in

1988,

Shani Graham, the creator of sustainable resilient communities in Western

Australia such as Ecoburbia.

Millions of people around the globe have participated in protests and

demonstrations over the course of history. Have those actions actually

brought about the changes they sought? We'll talk with author Brian Gruber

who co-wrote the book. It explores the victories and setbacks of 10

movements in America and three international movements including the fight

for civil rights, women's suffrage, the Arab Spring and anti-Vietnam War

protests. We'll talk about how you measure success or failure and what we

can learn from activists outside the United States.

Also, a visit with Marianna King, author of "The Crisis of School

Violence: A New Perspective". She takes an in-depth approach to

questions about bullying and shooting rampages in schools. She looks at

psychological and neuroscientific research on the effects of violent

entertainment media on brain development. King also looks at possible

solutions for parents, teachers and decision makers.

While a past Peace Talks Radio program on Transitional Justice included

legal strategies such as a truth and reconciliation commission, this

program deals with conversations that aren’t judicially mandated. Instead,

Public Dialogues happen when people willingly listen to and talk with

other citizens, develop understandings across differences, and collaborate

on shared solutions. They discover a space between the two poles of

‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ about an issue. The need for Public Dialogue is

most acute in complex issues such as racial equity, poverty, climate

change, and mental health where it’s hoped that it’ll increase

participatory democracy.

Suzanne Kryder talks with three experts in this field: Carolyne Abdullah,

the ; and Marion Sanchez, Community Engagement Manager with the City of

Austin; and Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, Former and First Executive Director of

the National Institute for Civil Discourse, headquartered at the

University of Arizona.

First up, we meet Fred Arment, . Since 2009, ICP has been building a

Then it's James Siguru Wahutu, a professor in NYUs Peace and Conflict

Learning about conflict resolution and social justice in far-flung places