Kurt Gray is a social psychologist and the author of the new book Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and... more

Photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind and writer Alisa Sopova create intimate, accessible portraits of Ukrainian civilians living close to the frontlines of... more

Can a podcast help bridge political divides? "A Braver Way" host Mónica Guzmán thinks so.

Psychologist Peter T. Coleman empowers each of us to fight cynicism and restore relationships across the political divide.

A veteran peacebuilder and scholar, Qamar-ul Huda is the author of Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.

"Nature knows no political borders. " - David Lehrer

"My freedom as a Palestinian will not be built on Jewish graves. It has to pass through Jewish hearts,... more

Veteran mediator Mark Gerzon says it's time to get practical about peace.

Search for Common Ground founder John Marks utilized principles of social entrepreneurship and media production know-how to build the world's... more

While filming ritual reconciliation processes in Sierra Leone, peacebuilder and philanthropist Libby Hoffman learned that justice for Sierra Leonians isn't... more

Lena Slachmuijlder is harnessing trust-building tech design to stop online harms that lead to real world violence.

Gloria Laker Aciro, who cut her teeth covering the civil war in her native Uganda, is director of the Peace... more

Kate Folb, director of the Center for Hollywood Health and Society, works to bring stories of heroes without guns to... more

How important is the UN to peacebuilding, and what is the mainstream media missing?

David Hogg, survivor of the 2018 Parkland, Fl school shooting, speaks about his activism with March for Our Lives, and... more

How do you measure peace in a country?

Vanessa Bassil is the founder and president of the Media Association for Peace, and has personally trained journalists and journalism... more

William Ury is one of the world’s most influential peacebuilders and experts on negotiation.

Journalist Amy Yee's book Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents follows... more

Brain science opens up a new understanding of how conflicts arise, and how to prevent violence.

Journalist and researcher Lydia Wilson helps us understand the Israel/Palestine conflict through a lens of intergenerational trauma.

A bi-weeky podcast about peace and conflict in the media

From street gangs to Congress, writer Amanda Ripley studied how to turn intractable conflicts into workable ones.

Journalist Reza Sayah says the corporate news model often works to perpetuate conflicts. But, another way is possible.

Guest Dina Francesca Haynes is an immigration and human rights attorney with decades of experience around the world.

By retelling an old story about murder and police misconduct in a new way, a newspaper provides an opportunity to... more

This week our host Jamil Simon is in the guest chair.

Peace is happening, whether we can see it or not.

New research shows that civil wars are mostly likely to begin neither in autocracies nor democracies, but in countries that... more

Why do Americans accept a militarized status quo, and is it making the world any safer?

Guest Trey Kay is host of Us & Them, an award-winning  narrative podcast about America’s culture wars, in partnership with... more

With the erosion of democratic freedoms in India, independent journalists have become enemies of the state.

In this episode, we look at a different way of creating space for peace: design.

Dutch journalist Bette Dam covered the war in Afghanistan for 15 years. Now she's on a mission to counter Western... more

We thought it was time to speak with someone whose job it is to make peace more visible.

Crisis Group analyst Elizabeth Dickinson says Colombians are healing the wounds of a civil war with the FARC, even... more

For Colombia’s peace agreement to be successful, society as a whole needs to embrace it, says journalist Daniel Salgar.

Juan Carols Borrero’s documentary film “A Call for Peace” tells the story of the peace process in Colombia, through interviews... more

Deborah Douglas sees journalism as a “brave space” to excavate the impact of America’s racial history on the current moment.

Our guest this episode, Daniel Estrin, is an international correspondent for NPR based in Jerusalem.

With regimes around the world suppressing dissent in ways that are harder to see, clear-eyed journalism is crucial.

Guest Beth Hallowell, Director of Research and Analytics at the American Friends Service Committee, shares research-based insights about how peacebuilders... more

Guest Trey Kay is host of Us & Them, an award-winning  narrative podcast about America’s culture wars, in partnership with... more

Political scientist Maria Stephan widens the lens on nonviolent resistance, and offers tips for how journalists could apply that lens... more

Shamil Idriss, CEO of Search for Common Ground, says it’s crucial for the peacebuilding field to understand and harness digital... more

Guest Babak Bahador is a scholar who studies the relationship between peace, conflict, and the media – kind of like... more

Peacebuilding isn't always about complex negotiations in halls of power. In this episode, we explore a walking path in The... more

How do you talk about peacebuilding in a way where people will pay attention and feel compelled to take action?

On a podcast called Power Lines, two Ukrainian journalists examine the big questions behind the war with Russia, and why... more

Photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind and writer Alisa Sopova create intimate, accessible portraits of Ukrainian civilians living close to the frontlines of... more