Peace Talks Radio

Peace Week 2010

Liu Xiaobo: Profile

Seeking Peace on Earth: The 2010 Peace Talks Radio Special

THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE: A PROFILE

Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims

Making Peace With Divorce

Making Peace With Nature

Peacemaking from the "Third Side"

Youth Voices on Peacemaking

Afghan Schools

Peace in Prison

Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution, features Jane Davis of Hope-Howse. In December 1993, Jane was asked to be a media witness at an electric chair execution in Georgia. She says witnessing the execution made everything inside her go "haywire." She writes, "This isolated act of killing another human being...left no alternatives. It took away all hope." Since then Jane has been travelling to death rows and prisons around the country and around the world, counseling inmates to help them find the goodness inside them and help them achieve some inner peace. She has worked with at-risk youth as well and has advocated against the death penalty. "Hope-Howse" stands for "Help Other People Evolve through Honest Open Willing Self Evaluation." She talks about her work with Carol Boss. In part two of the program, we rebroadcast our visit with musician and death penalty opponent Steve Earle from 2005 and hear some voices in support of the death penalty from the debate in the New Mexico State Legislature that year. New Mexico ultimately abolished the death penalty in 2009.

Playing For Change

17 million views on You Tube to date. That's the number of times the unique rendition of the song "Stand By Me" has been seen on the internet. The song featured contributions from street musicians and indigenous performers around the world, all playing to the same basic track recorded in Santa Monica, CA by music producer and engineer Mark Johnson. The good vibe from the collaboration inspired a whole CD called Songs Around The World, a DVD called Peace Through Music, a live tour, and a non-profit organization called the Playing For Change Foundation that has raised money to build music schools in developing countries. Can a project like this really promote peace in a noticeable way? On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, Carol Boss talks with both Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt of Playing for Change, as well as with two of the music performers - Clarence Bekker from The Netherlands and Mermans Kenkosenki from South Africa - about this remarkable project.

SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: THE PEACE TALKS RADIO SPECIAL (2009)