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- Chapel Hill Shootings 02/2015
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- *TED Radio Hour - Dialogue And Exchange
NPR, TED Radio Hour, Host Guy Raz, October 27, 2017 We're living in a time of intense ideological division, and it often feels impossible to bridge the gap. But can we afford not to? This hour, TED speakers explore how to communicate across the divide. Megan Phelps-Roper: If You're Raised To Hate, Can You Reverse It? (12:27) Robb Willer: How Do We Bridge The Political Divide? (9:35) Jonas Gahr Støre: As A Rule, Should Diplomats Talk To Everyone? (8:49) Celeste Headlee: How Can We Have Civil Conversations With The Other Side? (9:03) Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Does Our Future Depend On More Dialogue? (7:34)
- *This doctor says violence is contagious, and we should treat it like a disease
This doctor says violence is contagious, and we should treat it like a disease Battling violence in the US may not be so different than fighting AIDS in Africa Ana Swanson, Washington Post, October 2, 2015 interview with epidemiologist Gary Slutkin.
- Diane Rehm Show - Janine di Giovanni: “The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches From Syria”
May 9, 2016 It has been five years since civil war erupted in Syria. Hundreds of thousands have been killed. More than four million refugees have fled into neighboring countries — creating a crisis that has engulfed Europe. Janine di Giovanni, the Middle East editor for Newsweek, was embedded with the Syrian army. She says reporting on the war in Syria is unlike any other conflict she’s ever covered. And she has reported from dozens of war zones, including Bosnia, Iraq, and Somalia. Guest host Susan Page talks with di Giovanni about the brutal reality of the daily lives of Syrians. Guests Janine di Giovanni Middle East editor, Newsweek; contributing editor, Vanity Fair; author, "Ghosts by Daylight" and "Madness Visible" Link to Janine di Giovanni's TED Talk (2012)
- Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP)
The mission of GUSP is fourfold: Stop the spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction; Reduce the heavy reliance on violent means of conflict resolution; Prevent the buildup of societal tensions that lead to terrorism and social conflict; Research and promote the use of evidence-based, nonviolent approaches to preventing conflict, promoting national security, and achieving global peace.
- Gunfire abruptly ends dispute between University of Georgia frats
Gunfire abruptly ends dispute between University of Georgia frats
Tom Boggioni, Raw Story, 16 Feb 2015 at 13:42 ET
- Jonathan Schell - The Real American War in Vietnam
The Real American War in Vietnam
Jonathan Schell
This article appeared in the February 4, 2013 edition of The Nation
In his new book Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse shows that what were often presented as isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.
- Nukes: The Broadcast
RadioLab, Season 15, Episode 7 In this broadcast version of our Nukes episode, we tell the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi who, in early August of 1945, had a run of the worst luck imaginable. A double blast of radiation left his future, and the future of his descendants, in doubt. On the morning of August 6th, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a work trip. He was walking to the office when the first atomic bomb was dropped about a mile away. He survived, and eventually managed to get himself onto a train back to his hometown ... Nagasaki. The very next morning, as he tried to convince his boss that a single bomb could destroy a whole city, the second bomb dropped. Sam Kean, whose latest book The Violinist's Thumb scrutinizes the mysteries of our genetic code, tells Jad and Robert the incredible story of what happened to Tsutomu, explains how gamma rays shred DNA, and helps us understand how Tsutomu sidestepped a thousand year curse. Then, we sit on the other side of the table and look at the protocol behind the country the dropped the bombs: President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and - in 20 minutes - kill 60 million people. Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal. But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order? In this segment, we profile one Air Force Major who asked that question back in the 1970s and learn how the very act of asking it was so dangerous it derailed his career. We also pick up the question ourselves and pose it to veterans both high and low on the nuclear chain of command. Their responses reveal once and for all whether there are any legal checks and balances between us and a phone call for Armageddon.
- Santos receives 2017 Great Negotiator Award
Harvard Gazette, Sept 22, 2017 Colombian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos has received Harvard Law School’s 2017 Great Negotiator Award, given by the Program on Negotiation for “lifetime achievements in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution have had a significant and lasting impact.” Santos was honored for his work to end Colombia’s 52-year civil war and forge a comprehensive peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The conflict has claimed more than 220,000 lives and displaced more than 6 million people.
- SPLC reports upsurge in hate incidents since the 2016 Election
- Steven Pinker - The better angels of our nature
Other links:
http://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature
and
pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/
- The best weapon of all? Using meditation to stop war and terrorism
On December 16, 2015 the HuffPost Live reporter Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani hosted a discussion with Bob Roth, John Hagelin and Colonel Brian Rees on how the Transcendental Meditation practice can be used as a tool for increasing peace not only on the level of each individual but also on that of the society. What spurred the interest towards this topic was an open letter published in International New York Times (December 3, 2015) by the Global Union of Scientists for Peace in which presidents Obama, Hollande and Putin were called to use meditation as a way to deal with the threat of terrorism.
- The Urgent Need for a United States Space Force
Steven L. Kwast, Lieutenant General, United States Air Force (Ret.). Imprimis January 2020;49(1). (monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College).
Adapted from a speech delivered on November 20, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation lecture series.