Peace Breaks Out Between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Something truly remarkable in African history and global affairs occurred on June 26 when Eritrean leaders flew to the capitol of Ethiopia for peace talks. In the late 1990s the two countries fought ...
27 Juni 201830min
Why Mary Robinson Fights For Climate Justice
Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997. She then served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and has since undertaken a variety of roles at the UN s...
22 Juni 201820min
Understanding Asylum Law in the United States in the Context of Family Separations at the Border
My guest today, Kari Hong is an assistant professor at the Boston College law school and an expert on US asylum policy and law. As you can imagine, we have an extended conversation about the tragedy u...
19 Juni 201824min
Tom Catena is a Hero Doctor of Sudan's Nuba Mountains
For many years Tom Catena was the only doctor in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. This is an area on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In 2011 it was the site of intense fighting between gov...
14 Juni 201846min
How to Make Sense of the Trump-Kim Summit
When I last spoke with my guest today, Kelsey Davenport, the saber rattling between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un had reached a fever pitch. North Korea was launching nuclear and missile tests; the Uni...
13 Juni 201826min
A Bold Idea for UN Reform
I spent the last weekend of May at a conference in Stockholm called the New Shape Forum. This was an ideas festival and prize competition and workshop all around new ideas for better organizing the wo...
10 Juni 201832min
World Food Program Director David Beasley on the Food Emergenices North Korea and the Sahel
My guest today, David Beasley is the executive director of the World Food Program. We caught up not long after he visited both the Sahel region of western Africa and from North Korea, where the World ...
7 Juni 201825min
What India Can Teach Indiana About Fighting Diabetes
Amy Israel is the global health thought leadership and policy director for the health and pharmaceutical company, Lilly. In that role, she's recently launched a new pilot project to combat high rates...
1 Juni 201823min
