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Peace Today episodes

  • Professor Jon Solomon on the roots of modern genocides and their institutionalisation

    Jon Solomon talks about the extremely ideological and problematic common narrative of the past and how this structures our lives, choices, and view of the world today. Without an accurate version of history in the West we remain captives of a narrative that disguises fascist imperialism with a liberal democracy frame, corrupting our vocabulary and our ability to think and act towards positive change.


    Video language: English

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    #colonialism #history #totalitarianism

    1 hr 1 min
  • Muhanad al-Qaisy on the Nakba, life under occupation in the West Bank, and the Olive Tree Campaign

    Dutch teacher and activist Waldo Swart speaks with Muhanad al-Qaisy, director of the Joint Advocacy Initiative and third-generation Palestinian refugee, about the intergenerational trauma of the Nakba and what it means to grow up in its aftermath.

    The interview unfolds Muhanad’s story in layers: his family’s forced displacement in 1948, his childhood in Deheisha refugee camp, the realities of Israeli apartheid policies in the West Bank, and his firsthand experiences of military incursions. It ends with a look at the hope he continues to plant through the Olive Tree Campaign.

     

    This conversation is more than testimony - it is a testament to resilience, resistance, and the fight to keep hope alive. Recorded ahead of Nakba Day 2025, it reminds us that behind every statistic, there is a life lived, a memory held, and a story that must be heard.

    This interview was recorded during an event of Plant an Olive Tree at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, titled “From the West Bank to Gaza: The Ongoing Erasure.”

    Website: www.planteenolijfboom.nl

    Video language: English


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Peace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

    47 min
  • Szilvia Csevár about colonial legacies and the hidden drivers of conflict

    Jakob de Jonge interviews Szilvia Csevár about colonial legacies and the hidden drivers of conflict.

    They discuss capitalist development routed in colonial logic that continues to treat lands as property and perpetuate acts of war and violence against indigenous sovereignty. A disturbing pattern of profit-driven land-grabbing, supported by governments, drives violence that is not accidental, nor incidental, but systemic with the strategic aim of breaking resistance and removing people from their lands.

    45 min

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