Peace: We Build It!
What are current challenges facing the peacebuilding community and the new opportunities, initiatives, and insights offered by leading organizations working towards peace? As violent conflict increases around the world and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate instability and insecurity in conflict affected and fragile states, The Peace: We Build It! podcast is exploring innovative peace-centered approaches to addressing these global issues. Join host Tanya Domi, Senior Fellow for Communications and Peacebuilding at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) as she speaks with inspiring thought leaders, global partners, local peacebuilders, and expert guests on the work they're doing to build peace. Brought to you by the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
Episodes
16 episodes
AfP at 20: More than Two Decades of Peacebuilding
In 2022, AfP celebrated its 20th anniversary, and today, it is a thriving and robust network of over 200 organizations and more than 30,000 global peacebuilders in 181 countries working to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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56:34
Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America's Conflict Dynamics
The January 6th attack on the United States Capitol forced Americans to confront what conflict and peacebuilding experts have warned for years: that even before the 2016 elections, dangerous conflict dynamics are increasing in the U.S., resulti...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:48:47
Gender, Sex, & Peace: How the Security of Women & LGBTQ+ Communities Determines Security for All
Just last month, the United Nations observed the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, setting the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. In recent years, the world has seen both tremendous achievements and setbac...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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53:38
Changing the Narrative to Hope, Dignity, and Building Connections: A Peacebuilding Cure for High Conflict
How can we talk about peacebuilding to best position it as the tool of first resort? How can we reframe peace to make it feel possible? In this episode of AfP’s Peace: We Build It! podcast, join host Tanya Domi and guests Liz Hume, AfP’s Execut...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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51:51
Ending the Silence: How the International Community can Prevent and Bring Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict
Rape is the most common form of torture in armed conflicts—from Bosnia, to Kosovo, to Iraq, and now Ukraine—yet it remains rarely prosecuted by international courts. What can the peacebuilding and international communities do to end this silenc...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:13:16
Cybersecurity and Peace: How the Peacebuilding Field is Working to Build Cyber Resilience
Growing cyberthreats to peace and security are coming to light—from attacks on election and critical to infrastructure, to healthcare, to the financial sector. In light of this, how is the peacebuilding field working to build cyber resilience, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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31:19
It Can Happen Here: White Supremacy and the Growing Threat of Atrocities in the U.S.
Since January 6th, 2021, Americans have been grappling with the shocking rise of white supremacy and white nationalism that drove a mob to the U.S. Capitol with the aim to stop the Electoral College vote count by Congress. Although the insurrec...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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49:40
A Future in Peril: What What Can Be Done to Stop the War in Ethiopia?
Fighting in Ethiopia began in early November 2020, when forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked a federal army base in the region, leading Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to order a military offensive against the rebels, leavin...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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42:03
Israel-Palestine: Illusive Peace
In the 1990s, a breakthrough agreement negotiated between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Oslo, Norway, set out a process for a mutually negotiated two-state solution to be gradually implemented by the end of the decade. Although the process...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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41:13
COVID & Conflict: Building Sustainable Peace During & After the Pandemic
In the seventh episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and Mercy Corps guests Mayesha Alam, Senior Advisor of Research and Strategy, and Ryan Sheely, Director of Research - Gov...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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52:02
Interview of Velma Saric: How Does a Country Build Peace in the Aftermath of Genocide?
In the sixth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and guest Velma Saric—Founder and President of the Post-Conf...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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57:28
From Juneteenth to June 2021: How Structural Racism Persists and the Way Forward
In this fifth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Allan-Charles Chipman, FaithRooted Organizer & Transformation Strategist for Initiatives of Change USA, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to disc...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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46:38
Ending the Forever War or Ensuring War Forever in Afghanistan?
In this fourth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Megan Corrado, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy; Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Founder & Executive Director of ICAN; and Wahzma Frogh, Co-founder...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:10:15
The Ultimate Crime: We Need to Talk About Genocide
In this third episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, genocide scholars Gregory Stanton, Founding President and Chairman of Genocide Watch, and Maxim A. Pensky, Co-Director of the Institute for Genoci...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:02:41
Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World
In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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51:20
Violent Conflict is Increasing Globally and in the United States: What Do We Know & What Can We Do About it?
In this first episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Acting CEO and President of AfP, Liz Hume, will sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss what is driving increasing global violent conflict an...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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50:28