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148 Recap 4 Dec 2020

Dec 25, 2020

This recaps two episodes of Project Save the World's "World Repair Shop" -- one with Saul Arbess on the anthropology of the Inuit and hopes for redirecting war funds to peace. The other with Ann Frisch and Asha Asokan. Ann is promoting openness, and Asha tells of a conflict in South Sudan as to whether a father can...


Dec 21, 2020

Irakli Kakabadze is a Georgian poet and peace activist who has recently co-founded a Gandhian foundation in Tbilisi. He tells Metta that the situation in the south Caucasus is alarming since the recent war over Nagorno-Karabakh. A coalition is developing among Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and possibly other countries...


Dec 21, 2020

Here we have excerpts from three of Project Save the World's talk show, “World Repair Shop": Craig Smith on Agriculture and Climate Change; Paul Copeland on the Rohingya; and Gordon Edwards and Susan O'Donnell on Small Nuclear Reactors. You can comment on this and other recorded conversations about serious global...


Dec 19, 2020

Colin Archer was Secretary General of the International Peace Bureau for 27 years. Now in retirement, he and Metta discuss the organization's history and the challenges of building coalitions that integrate activists across different issues and geographical spaces.


Dec 19, 2020

Walter Dorn teaches military officers and is a devoted peace worker. He tells Metta about the new addendum to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which specifies Novichok as one of the forbidden chemical weapons. Everyone already knows that it is prohibited, but this added provision will make it easier for the OPCW to...