Dismantling the Divide

In our final episode of the series, Sean Duffy, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Center at Quinnipiac University discusses how we can practically think about building a peaceful world. He's interviewed by show host and producer, David DesRoches, director of community programming at Quinnipiac. Additional audio and video: Asch Conformity Experiment; eqivideos. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

"No justice, no peace,” is a phrase that historians say likely originated in New York City after a mob of white teenagers severely beat a group of black men in Howard Beach in 1986, which led to one man's death. Can peace and justice co-exist? It's a question that we explore in this episode, which also examines transitional and restorative justice practices, elements of justice that go back many m...

"We are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been, and we're not acting that way. We're ignoring this problem to a very dangerous degree. " - Dr. Ira Helfand, Nobel laureate. The new nuclear arms race is expected to be much worse than the Cold War race that ended in the 1980s. This time around, there are three players: Russia, the U.S., and China. This is complicated by the fact that the last r...

There is power in art -- even silly art. Consider artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat  or Andy Warhol, or the sale last year of a banana duct-taped to a wall for over $6 million. It’s ridiculous, of course, but if money is power, and that banana sold for a lot of money, then doesn’t that mean that banana, on that wall, had a lot of power?  Today, we’re talking about art, and its power to create peac...

This episode is about stories and how they shape our identities in ways that give us strength but also sometimes keep us divided. We discuss the concept of nations and borders, and how this social organizing framework has created a concept of “the other." You’re supposed to be over there because you’re different. "I’m here, you’re there." This focus on difference leads to competing narratives -- e...

What does war sound like? What about peace, what does it sound like? What kind of world do you want to hear? In our first episode, we explore this idea of peace and what it means to individuals and to society. Is peace a thing we can achieve, a feeling, an activity, or something else entirely? Through conversations with Sean Duffy, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipia...