Puzzle Peaceing

This was filmed on August 5, 2025. There wasn't a firm launch date yet, there was still so much to work through. But this is the most honest take on what this podcast means to me. It's raw, it's honest, and it's the central part of me as a thinker, a host, and a person. Cheers to it almost being a year since I filmed this.

As we close out Season 1, we are laying the groundwork for a massive operational shift. In just 48 hours, I am boarding a flight to the Netherlands to study public and private international law directly at the Peace Palace in The Hague. In this finale, I pull back the curtain on why this podcast is evolving from theoretical deep-dives into an active, on-the-ground blueprint. Speaking as a legal pr...

The medical and psychological research on immigration detention uses a phrase that sits flat on the page:  chronic uncertainty . In a clinical paper, it sounds like a neutral variable. But in your body, if you have ever lived with long-term anxiety, or waited weeks for a phone call that would decide your future, it is a texture you already know intimately. This episode is a direct reading of my la...

Last week we asked why disagreement is so hard. This week we ask what to do about it. In Part 2 of this conversation, I sit with John Paul Lederach's  The Moral Imagination , John Brewer's writing on Northern Ireland after thirty-plus years of the Troubles, and a small moment in my own life when I almost built a barrier with a stranger I had never spoken to. If you came up in last week&#39...

We think we reason our way to moral conclusions. Jonathan Haidt says we don't. The gut decides first. The brain catches up after, building a case for a verdict that's already been reached. In this episode, I walk through  The Righteous Mind , the book quietly reshaping how I think about peace work, public discourse, and how international law actually holds up under pressure. This is Part 1...

Why do people who know something is wrong still not move? This episode traces that question across three decades and three continents, from a UN peacekeeping compound to the Security Council floor to a 2026 legislative vote that may reshape how an entire country defines childhood. The psychology behind inaction doesn't just explain history. It explains you. **Please take care of yourself while lis...

What does a word cost and who pays when the wrong one is chosen? In this Sort, host and legal researcher Camila maps the gap between what the law says and what the body carries. From the staggering liability a single word can trigger in international law, to a prosecutor describing the abduction of thousands of children as "sustenance," to indigenous Peruvian women who, when asked what h...

Why are we biologically wired to click on the violence? In the inaugural episode of Puzzle Peaceing, host and legal researcher Camila breaks down the "biological glitch" that makes our brains mistake shock for high-value information. From a dark neurological study at the University of Amsterdam to the archival violence of the 18th century Caribbean, we explore how the human craving for f...