In Modi's India, journalists must toe the line or risk jail time
Western media has often referred to India as the world’s largest democracy. But during the last decade, the world has witnessed the decline of many democratic institutions in India. In a recent Time M...
7 Nov 202336min
How do we design for peace?
On Making Peace Visible we usually focus on stories -- narratives about peace and conflict that are told in the news, on social media, and shared in our collective zeitgeist. We’ve seen examples of ho...
24 Okt 202325min
Un-embedding Western narratives about Afghanistan
One way to cover war is to follow the road offered by the dominant army. In Afghanistan, that often meant journalists were embedded with U.S. or NATO troops, and saw the war and the world around it th...
10 Okt 202332min
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
