Raising Peace

We are delighted to bring you the sixth and final episode of this series the Raising Peace podcast! This one is rather special for us, as instead of hearing from other people, this time we are telling our own story. From its beginnings in 2020 with a small group who had a shared desire to 'raise peace' and bring together like minded people, this episode offers a surprisingly uplifting and energisi...

This episode of the Raising Peace podcast presents a talk from our 2023 festival, when we heard from educators in Australia and Italy who are standing against the increased militarisation of our schools and universities. ‘ Minors and Missiles ’ is a report by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War that describes the many ways in which defence companies are influencing school curricula....

This extended episode features four peacebuilders who talked about their work at the 2023 Raising Peace Festival. The pursuit of peace takes many forms. Our earlier episodes looked at some of the 'big issues' but it's just as important in much more locally and personally, no matter where you are. This episode explores peace and justice initiatives in Ballarat, in the work of the Knitting Nanas and...

Australia’s new strategic alliance with the USA and United Kingdom, AUKUS, brings challenges to a peaceful future, and not only for Australia and our immediate neighbourhood. It’s also a real concern for the US and UK themselves. We explored this issue at our 2022 Raising Peace festival where we heard from speakers from each country in the alliance, and we've added an update on development since....

Orienting a country towards peace is not only possible, it's been done. In this episode we hear from Dr Alison Broiwnowski, Rev Dr Thorwald Lorenzen and Costa Rica's past Ambassador to Australia Victor Vargas on how we might bring this about. They were speaking at the 2022 Raising Peace festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The First episode of the Raising Peace podcast features First Nations speakers from the 2022 Raising Peace Festival talking about Australia's greatest opportunity to forge a peaceful nation; the Voice to Parliament and the Statement from the Heart. This podcast series was made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Jan de Voogd Peace Fund Edited by Glen Morrow from Audiocraft and produced by...