Institute for Sustainable Peace

09/27/2018

Prof. Doug McAdam of Stanford U. & author of "Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America" traces the root causes of the polarization we are experiencing daily in America. Then we talk about how we can foster dialogue to bridge our divides @

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08/14/2018

I appreciate the insights Nii Armah Sowah, Ghanaian-born university educator, shared in our conversation on the podcast ://www.thepeacemakerspodcast.com/017-part-2-a-path-forward-for-africa-today-with-nii-armah-sowah/

08/02/2018

http://sustainablepeace.org/2018/07/19/a-declaration-of-interdependence/

A Declaration of Interdependence? by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Raise the Debate | My wife and I celebrated the recent July 4 holiday on Cape Cod as the quests of a dear friend and her extended family. There were pretty impressive fireworks after dark on the evening of July 3. On the morning of the 4th,...

10/12/2017

I enjoyed my podcast conversation with Nick Forster, a courageous convener and founder of eTown and would like to share it with you on http://www.thepeacemakerspodcast.com

09/27/2017

I hope to see many of our ISP Peace Rangers at the Coalition of Advocates for South Sudan 3rd Annual Conference on Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Grand View University. The theme is UNITED IN DIVERSITY FOR PEACE - Using Non-violent Means To End The Conflict In South Sudan. I am honored to be facilitating several sessions of the conference.

03/27/2017

Listen to a challenging cross-generation conversation with pastor and Millennial, Adam Bailon, about the need to address systemic racism.

Today, Adam Bailon, Pastor and self-described evangelical, talks about the complicity of the Church in the West in systemic racism and social-injustice over a period of centuries. We then move on to the renewed consciousness in recent years of the Church’s mission to shape our systems to be more jus...

03/15/2017

Here is our latest episode of the Peacemakers Podcast http://www.thepeacemakerspodcast.com/006-what-is-peace-really/

03/10/2017

I'm very excited about my new podcast that seeks to build bridges of understanding across deep divisions in our country. I hope you will listen, share it with others, and join the healing conversation.

Jack Butler and I have been talking about how to have conversations that set us free to move to the edge of the unknown and then keep on going.   In today’s conversation, we continue in that direction and consider an intriguing question:  What if we could reimagine the way we do politics?

09/24/2015

With co-hosts Sue Levin, Ilana Reisz, and Rita Fierro, we were very happy to have 80 community-minded people take part in our Dialogue Workshop held at First Presbyterian Church, Houston on Sept.18-19. Participants came from all over greater Houston and represented much of the diversity of the region. They also came from multiple academic and professional disciplines bringing vital cognitive diversity to the hard topics we tackled as we introduced many to new tools and skills for dialogue and collaboration.

08/17/2015

Isn't it time for this conversation? If you agree, please share. To learn more go to https://dialogueworkshop.eventbrite.com

07/29/2015

To learn more: https://dialogueworkshop.eventbrite.com