The Peacebuilding Podcast : From Conflict To Common Ground
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The Peacebuilding Podcast : From Conflict To Common Ground
Join Global Consultant Susan Coleman, Host of the Peacebuilding Podcast- and today’s most innovative, courageous and inspired practitioners as we explore strategies to intervene in complex systems to build consensus and common ground across divides of worldview, culture and difference.
Episoade Recente
49 episoade
Ep 49: Peter Coleman - Hurdles and Hope: Reflections on the Role of Gender
Such a delight to re-connect to my colleague from many moons ago – Peter Coleman – who, just for the record, is not my relative.
Our paths cross...

Ep 48: Rabia Roberts - Herstory, Part B
Dear Podcast Friends,
Happy 2021!
We came so close in the United States of America.
We came right up to the edg...

Ep 47: Rabia Roberts - Herstory, Part A
Dear Podcast Friends,
I took a hiatus this summer from high-speed internet and went to the “boonies” which was great for making progress on my...

Ep 46: Susan Coleman and Dean Foster - Culture, Gender and Negotiation
As you know, I believe that empowering women, getting gender right on the planet, is the most impactful peacebuilding initiative we humans can underta...

Ep 45: Kristina Lunz: A Feminist Foreign Policy
If my country, the United States, were to adopt a feminist foreign policy, I believe there would be a major, positive shift on this planet. I tweeted...

Ep 44: Deborah Heifetz and Martha Eddy: Reclaiming the Female Body for Power in Negotiation
Wow, what strange, nerve-racking and global times we are living in. This pandemic certainly underscores for me how interdependent we all are and how i...

Ep 43: Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma
One of the things I love most about doing this podcast is I get to spend time with, and really "tune in" to some amazing people.
Thomas H...

Ep 42: Riya Yuyada: Crown the Woman
Some of the more interesting assignments I have had in recent years have been with the United Nations peacekeeping missions -- four times in S Sudan a...

Ep 41: Riane Eisler & Douglas P. Fry: Nurturing Our Humanity
Probably a deep reason I went into the field of conflict resolution long ago is that growing up as a girl in the heart of an affluent, male-dominated,...

Ep 40: Saba Ismail: From Northwestern Pakistan to Global Leadership
I like to think of myself as fairly courageous. In fact, one of my mottos (adopted from Barbara Stanny (Huson — an earlier guest on the show) is to “d...

Ep. 039: Stephanie Savell: The Costs of War
I've been looking for somebody who could talk credibly about money. Of course, this podcast isn’t really about that. This podcast is about focusing on...

Ep. 038: Rob Fersh: Finding Common Ground in the Belly of the Beast
A main focus of this podcast is to explore the best process interventions that build common ground and consensus in diverse and often polarized groups...

Ep. 037: Melanie Greenberg: Making Peace in a Polarized World -- And the US is No Exception...
When I travel outside of the US I often think that American citizens have no idea what a “war zone” we are actually living in. Guns are rampant every...

Ep. 036: Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering
When Priya Parker published her recent book, the Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, Susan and her colleagues commiserated that we hadn'...

Ep. 035: Barbara Huson: Becoming Your Own Prince Charming - Women, Money, Power & Peace
In this episode, Susan turns to the topic of money and its connection to women’s empowerment and building a more peaceful planet. If you really want t...

Ep 34 Terry Real: Building Peace - From the Intimate to the Global
What’s the connection between what happens between people in their intimate relationships and what’s happening on the global stage? In this conversati...

Ep 33 Dr. Catherine Barnes: Overcoming Our Addiction To Coercion
Join us in conversation with Catherine Barnes. I (Steve) first met Catherine at a dialog and facilitation retreat in rural Myanmar. I was struck by th...

Ep 32 Graeme Simpson: What Young People Can Teach Us About Building Peace
Join us in conversation with Graeme Simpson, US Director of the non-profit Interpeace, and lead author of the United Nation’s flagship Progress Report...

Ep 31 Dr. Scilla Elworthy -- A Business Plan for Peace
In this episode, Susan speaks with Scilla Elworthy Ph D. three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Oxford Research Group,...

Ep 30 Joe Washington: Reflections on 10 Years in South Sudan with the United Nations
The United Nations is a polarising institution. Some people look to the UN as a trusted expert and moral voice concerning issues related to the enviro...

Ep. 29 Prof. Peter Hawkins -- Gender, "WeQ" in Organizations and Peace
Gender, “We Q” and the Urgent Need for Collaborative Intelligence In Organizations with Professor Peter Hawkins
It’s my contention, that,...

Episode 028 -- Dr. Riane Eisler: Partnership or Domination-Whispers from the Past and a Way Forward
In these darker days (we are fast approaching the winter solstice in the US), and with the darkness created by the Harvey Weinstein's of the world, Do...

Episode 027 - Charles Crawford: A British Ambassador's Reflections on Building Peace in Bosnia
In this episode, Susan interviews Charles Crawford, who was the British Ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996-1998, Serbia and Montenegro fr...

Episode 026 - Susan Coleman: Igniting Women - The Pathway to Planetary Peace
This episode is a recording of the speech Susan delivered in Shanghai on May 14, 2017 to 1000 women at the International Elite Women's Forum -- a wome...

Episode 025 -- Dean Foster: Crossing Cultures
Exciting News! We have a new feel, rythym and sound to The Peacebuilding Podcast. Please check it out in this episode.
In this next podcast conv...

Episode 024 – Bob Stains: The Dialogue Approach of The Public Conversations Project
In the current political climate in the United States, there is a heightened interest in bringing people who don’t agree together for dialogue. One o...

Episode 023 - Elizabeth Rabia Roberts: Bearing Witness
Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, Ed.D, is an internationally known citizen activist and women’s advocate. She is MaShieka — spiritual guide and teacher—in the...

Episode 022 - Sandra Janoff: Future Search to Build Common Ground
Sandra Janoff is really in a class by herself. No one that I know of has so systematically created a design for building common ground in a multi-stak...

Episode 021 - Thomas Hill: Peacebuilding in Iraq & Creating NYU’s Peacebuilding Program
How do you create the conditions for peacefulness in a place like Iraq that has been in such intense, destructive conflict for so long? How do you us...

Episode 020 - Elvira Maria Restrepo: A WebApp for Building Peace in Colombia
Are there ways to use technology to build peace? How much is misinformation from social media impacting an electorates’ thinking about what they want?...

Episode 019 – S. Coleman: Working with Senior Women’s Leadership Teams to Build Peace in Afghanistan
THIS IS A CROSS-POST FROM THE TEAM COACHING ZONE PODCAST:
Is empowering women, especially in conflict-ridden societies a peacebuilding initiati...

Episode 018 - Jim Zimmerman, NASA: Space Exploration: A Powerful Symbol of Global Cooperation
In this episode, Susan interviews James Zimmerman (“Jim”), a retired National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) official, who describes spac...

Episode 017 – Kamal Mouzawak: Making Food Not War in Lebanon
In this episode, Susan interviews Kamal Mouzawak, an Arab world social innovator whose business card says it all “Make Food, Not War”.
K...

Episode 016 - David Gage: Mediating Business Partner Disputes, and the Partnership Charter
In this episode, Susan interviews Dr. David Gage, a clinical psychologist, business mediator, entrepreneur and author. Twenty-five years ago, David fo...

Episode 015 - Andrea Bartoli: “Seek What Unites, Not What Divides”.
In this episode, Susan interviews Dr. Andrea Bartoli, someone who takes important professional risks to get good work done. Dr. Bartoli is currently D...

Episode 014 – Aldo Civico: Working in the Fire
In this episode, Susan interviews Aldo Civico, cease-fire negotiator, peacebuilder and, in the words of George Mitchell, “one of the most innovative l...

Episode 013 - Harrison Owen: Opening Space for Peace and High Performance
In this episode, Susan interviews Harrison Owen the celebrated creator of Open Space Technology which was “channeled” through him, he claims, because...

Episode 012 - Gabrielle Kluck: Ombudsing In UN Peacekeeping Missions in the Sudan Region
Gabrielle Kluck is now the Ombudsman for the UN’s World Food Programme in Rome. I caught up with her in this episode as she was winding down her tenur...

Episode 011 - Mel Duncan: “Third Side” Interventions into the Heart of Deadly Conflict
In this episode, Susan interviews Mel Duncan, the Founding Director and Director of Advocacy and Outreach of Nonviolent Peace Force (NP) which provide...

Episode 010 - John Horgan: The End of War
In this episode, Susan interviews longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan who, drawing from the scientific evidence, counters the conventional...