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Transforming Pain Into Hope: 25 Years After War in Sierra Leone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray interviews Aminatta Forna and Chernor Bah: two Sierra Leoneans who are working to rebuild their country after growing up in the shadow of civil...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Silver Tsunami: Challenges and Opportunities of Global Aging
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re taking a look at what economists and demographers are calling “the Silver Wave” — how the rapid aging of the world’s population wi...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Improving The Peace Prize
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privatel...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making Peace With Migration
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Every time a group of people line up along the external borders of a country, debates heat up among government leaders with respect to migration an...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
Cities of Asylum for Artists, Writers & Journalists
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Pedro X Molina With His Portraits
This time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, we talk with three guests about “Cities of Asylum” – also known as “Cities of Refuge” -- communities that put out t...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
World as Family
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we revisit an episode from earlier this year that helps us make sense of the isolation brought on by the pandemic, and mistrust sown by ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2021-10-03 Immigration and Multiculturalism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should ethnic or cultural identity ever be considered in any country’s immigration policy?

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-09-26 Gandhi as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
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What were the philosophical bases of Gandhi's ideas?

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Making connections across sectors to connect communities & improve well being, with Nang Mo Kham of the Word Bank
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Nang Mo Kham
In this episode, we explore the importance of making connections across sectors to achieving healthy communities. Our guest is Nang Mo Kham, Eisen...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
2021-07-18 Foreign Aid—or Injury?
From: Philosophy Talk
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What's the right way for developed nations to fight global poverty?

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2021-07-04 Foucault and Power
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is power a matter of top-down control, or is it distributed throughout society?

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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Feeding the World Without Wrecking the Planet
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet. Please join Ray Suarez, Ra...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
2020-11-22 Spinoza
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most influential and beguiling thinkers of all time?

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
2020-11-08 Camus and the Absurd
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is life just like a rock you keep pushing up a hill so it won't roll back over you?

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Taoism: Following the Way
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is Taoism a religion, a philosophy, a spiritual practice, or a way of life?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Islamic Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, politics, justice, and the state -- the heritage of the West, given to Christianity by Islam.

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020-10-11 Hannah Arendt
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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From Germany to Paris to New York: what made Arendt so controversial?

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2020-09-18 Daniel Yergin: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From pipelines to clean power, the world’s biggest economies are brokering developments in oil, gas, and renewables that will shape climate and pol...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
200918: Daniel Yergin: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, 9/18/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From pipelines to clean power, the world’s biggest economies are brokering developments in oil, gas, and renewables that will shape climate and pol...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
200717: John Kerry: The Global Dynamics of Decarbonization, 7/17/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The COVID-19 crisis is expected to decrease U.S. carbon emissions by 7.5% in 2020 — exactly the rate needed globally to meet the climate goals outl...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
2020-07-17 John Kerry: The Global Dynamics of Decarbonization
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 crisis is expected to decrease U.S. carbon emissions by 7.5% in 2020 — exactly the rate needed globally to meet the climate goals outl...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Is the United Nations Still Relevant at 75?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we look at the United Nation’s achievements, its shortcomings and what the future holds for international cooperation with ...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Time and Patience
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Lockdown
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00