Why we make this show: An interview with Jamil Simon
In this episode we’re featuring a recent interview with our host, documentary filmmaker and lifelong peace activist Jamil Simon on This is My Silver Lining, a podcast about ordinary people doing extra...
16 Jan 202432min
All the peace we cannot see
Making Peace Visible is a show about how the media covers peace and conflict. One of the major reasons we make it is because peace gets so little coverage in the news media. When we do hear news about...
2 Jan 202436min
Democracy Works: Between Democracy and Autocracy
Between democracy and autocracy is an anocracy, defined by political scientists as a country that has elements of both forms of government — usually one that’s on the way up to becoming a full democra...
19 Des 202331min
Unmasking American myths about war and the military
In the United States, about one sixth of the federal budget goes to defense. This year the country spent more on the military than any year since 2001 – over $816 billion. Why does spending continue t...
5 Des 202336min
Storytelling with equal-opportunity empathy
Trey Kay knows both sides of America's partisan divide intimately. He was born and raised in a conservative family in Charleston, West Virginia. As a young man he moved to New York City, where he lat...
28 Nov 202334min
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
