In the news media, war gets more headlines than peace, conflict more airtime than reconciliation. And in our polarized world, reporting on... 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.
Crisis Group analyst Elizabeth Dickinson says Colombians are healing the wounds of a civil war with the FARC, even while “total... more