Inside comms strategy at the world's largest peacebuilding NGO
We talk a lot on this show about the reasons why peace and conflict resolution aren’t more visible in the news media and our public conversation.Our past guests have presented a variety of explanation...
26 Sep 202332min
Spotlight Colombia: Moving forward with wounds still fresh
If you're interested in learning about how peace gets made and unmade and then remade, Colombia is an amazing laboratory. Guest Elizabeth Dickinson is a senior analyst with the Crisis Group in Colombi...
12 Sep 202335min
Spotlight Colombia: After demilitarization, a new narrative
After the peace agreement their leaders signed with the Colombian government in September 2016, members of the FARC guerilla group began turning in their weapons to the UN. In exchange, rank-and-file ...
30 Aug 202328min
Spotlight Colombia: Behind the scenes of making peace
A main premise of our podcast is that peace efforts are invisible in the mainstream media, or certainly not visible enough. But one place that has grabbed at least some of the world’s attention, is th...
8 Aug 202327min
Journalism as a brave space to talk about race
“The one embedded bias that we definitely have when we get up every day to cover the news anew is that we're biased for democracy. Let's just admit that. So if you're biased for democracy, then you ha...
25 Jul 202328min
When covering the Holy Land, hope is in the details
Our guest this episode, Daniel Estrin, is an international correspondent for NPR based in Jerusalem. There is a human element present throughout Daniel Estrin’s body of work that places listeners in t...
11 Jul 202338min
Covering civil resistance amidst rising authoritarianism
In the mainstream news, we might not hear much about a political movement in America, or in another country, unless it “turns violent.” Building an effective protest movement takes planning, a shared ...
27 Jun 202334min
Peace messaging: Fighting crisis fatigue with hope
“Weapons and war do not keep us safe. Instead, we should put our money and time into programs that ensure real safety and security for everyone, like affordable health care, a just judicial system, an...
13 Jun 202325min
