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Why are some places affected by violence and disorder while others enjoy peace and stability? From the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts, “Root of Conflict” analyzes violent conflict around...
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Why are some places affected by violence and disorder while others enjoy peace and stability? From the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts, “Root of Conflict” analyzes violent conflict around the world, and the people, societies, and policy issues it affects. We meet with leading experts to discuss what can be done to create more peaceful societies.
This series is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the Harris School of Public Policy. We're produced and hosted by Hannah Balikci and edited by Nishita Karun.
Learn more about Root of Conflict here.
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This series is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the Harris School of Public Policy. We're produced and hosted by Hannah Balikci and edited by Nishita Karun.
Learn more about Root of Conflict here.
Root of Conflict
Root of Conflict
Human Rights in North Korea | Ambassador Julie Turner
11 JUL 2024 · How does the United States coordinate with regional partners to promote human rights in North Korea? In this episode, we speak with Ambassador Julie Turner, the U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights at the Department of State. Ambassador Turner is globally recognized as an expert in human rights and democracy and has worked over the past 20 years to strengthen democratic institutions and promote human rights throughout the East Asia and Pacific Region. As a career civil service employee and former Presidential Management Fellow, Ambassador Turner has dedicated her career to advancing human rights around the world. We discuss how the United States and its allies in the region play a role in protecting and promoting human rights in North Korea, how the United States balances Human Rights with some of its hardline measures – like economic sanctions and military deterrence, and how Ambassador Turner engages with the broader Korean American community.
A note that the acronym DPRK refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the country’s official title, which is also commonly referred to as North Korea.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
Should you encounter any challenges with the audio quality, we invite you to follow along with the transcript provided for a seamless experience. https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Levi Latoz, Myong Kun (Chris) Shin, and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Resources:
- https://keia.org/the-peninsula/five-must-read-memoirs-from-north-korean-refugees/
A War Later | Juanita Velez
7 JUN 2024 · How do stories give new perspectives to conflict and peace? In this episode, we speak with Juanita Vélez, a journalist and political scientist. She was the editor of La Silla Sur, a regional subsidiary of Colombian news website La Silla Vacía, focused on covering the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement in southern Colombia. She researches and writes journalistic stories on illegal armed groups, deforestation, and organized crime. She is also the author of A War Later, (Spanish: Una Guerra Después) a journalistic book that tells the stories of five Colombians impacted by the Peace Agreement made between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (the FARC). The book focuses not just on the former FARC combatants but also tells the stories of victims, military personnel, and government officials that weren’t covered in the broader news at the time. We discuss the framework of the peace agreement, the impacts of implementation, and the how Vélez built trust within communities to facilitate her journalism.
https://youtu.be/o7xFIu3OJGM?si=PAUq4GfN5sOfnJHs.
https://www.penguinlibros.com/co/tematicas/325508-libro-una-guerra-despues-9786287539297.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Paula Cadena Moreno and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Power & Development | Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
10 MAY 2024 · What is the role of narratives within the political economy of development? In this episode, we speak with Professor Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Faculty Affiliate of the Pearson Institute. His research tackles problems in the economics of development, political economy, and conflict. He conducts most of his research in areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); where he looks at the organization of society, the economics and psychology of armed groups, the emergence of state functions, and the economics of organized corruption, working closely with these actors, while also gathering detailed data for statistical analysis. We discuss Professor Sanchez de la Sierra’s path to working in the DRC and later involvement in Congo Calling, a documentary film that follows him and two other Europeans who work in various roles within the international development aid sector in the DRC. Later, we discuss his goals and objectives for his class Power and “Development,” which he teaches at Harris. Finally, we explore Professor Sanchez de la Sierra’s perspectives on the state of the world at-large, including his insights into the #FreeCongo movement.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Raphael Rony Anthony, Manda Bwerevu, and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Polarization in a Region of Turmoil | Daniel Brumberg
10 APR 2024 · What factors hindered Tunisia's democratic transition after the Arab Spring? In this episode, we speak with Professor Daniel Brumberg, a Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and co-founder of its Democracy and Governance Master’s program. We discuss Tunisia’s political landscape and how polarization impacted its own democratic journey. We also discuss different theories of political transition, Middle Eastern development politics, and Dr. Brumberg’s perspectives on Iran.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Joshilyn Binkley and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Colonizing Kashmir | Hafsa Kanjwal
8 MAR 2024 · https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/human-rights/events/events-2023/colonizing-kashmir/Colonizing-Kashmir-State-building-under-Indian-Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made "integral" to India through a study of the decade long rule of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. We discuss the historical context of the conflict in Kashmir through the book’s chapters.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Nishita Karun and Julia Higgins
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Philosophies of Research | Austin Wright
9 FEB 2024 · What kind of ethical concerns should researchers think about when deciding to take on a project? In this episode, we speak with Professor Austin Wright, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at The University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Pearson Institute and Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. We speak about his past and current research projects in Afghanistan, dual-use infrastructure, and broad U.S. policy interventions. We also talk about his work teaching as a professor, his advice for students, and how his life journey has influenced his understanding of conflict and ripple effects.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Jose Macias and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Gendered Dimensions of Conflict | Maliha Chishti
10 JAN 2024 · How do war and conflict give rise to gender-based violence? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Maliha Chishti, an assistant instructional professor at the Divinity School and an associate of The Pearson Institute. Her core research interests are international peacebuilding, security, and development, as well as gender and human rights in post-conflict contexts. We talk about gender-based violence in the context of war, Dr. Chishti’s work in passing Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security, and the complexities of humanitarian aid implementation today.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Julia Higgins, Rabail Sofi, and Hannah Balikci
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Mothers and Peacebuilding | Amal Hamada
7 DEC 2023 · What is the role of mothers in counterterrorism efforts? Within conflict, women have traditionally been viewed as victims that need protecting; however, their involvement is much more nuanced than that. In this episode, we speak with Professor Amal Hamada, a professor of political science and gender studies at Cairo University. We talk about the role of gender when discussing conflict, the women’s movement in Iran, and Palestinian mothers today.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Jordan Enos, Raphael Rony Antony, and Isabella Pestana de Andrade do Nascimento
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
After Authoritarianism | Monika Nalepa
3 NOV 2023 · How are authoritarian elites and their collaborators handled in the aftermath of democratic transitions? The modern discipline of documenting transitional justice began with the Nuremberg trials for Nazi perpetrators. The trials shifted the way the international community thinks about accountability for human rights violations committed by authoritarian regimes and are generally the most well-known example of transitional justice. Yet, there exist different procedures of extra-judicial transitional justice—including lustration, truth commissions, and purges—that hold human rights violators accountable and remove them from positions of power without formally sentencing them.
In this episode, we speak with Professor Monika Nalepa, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, about her new book After Authoritarianism and her monumental work building the https://ipekcinar.shinyapps.io/global_transitional_justice_dataset/ at the http://www.tjdemstabilitylab.com/. We talk about the different implications of transitional justice for both leaders and rank-and-file members of authoritarian regimes and the more recent global phenomenon of democratic backsliding.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/after-authoritarianism/588E19D4A35B32956CFDDD2DA06C9C9D.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing:
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Hannah Balikci
Kurdish Women and Resistance | Rez Gardi
5 OCT 2023 · What role did Kurdish women play in Iran's protests last year? The death of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian authorities sparked mass demonstrations for women’s rights under the rallying cry of "Women, Life, Freedom." But the Kurdish minorities behind this resistance have largely been erased—and their movements co-opted before the international community. In this episode, we speak with Rez Gardi, a Kurdish New Zealander lawyer and human rights activist, about how, despite becoming the symbol of a revolution, non-Kurdish activists and news coverage have continually denied Jina her true name and identity. We talk about the long-lived Kurdish resistance against state oppression in Iran, Syria, and Turkey and the broader history of the Kurdish struggle for autonomy and self-determination in the Middle East.
This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at https://thepearsoninstitute.org/
https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast.
Podcast Production Credits:
Interviewing: Hannah Balikci and Zareen Hussain
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Reema Saleh
Why are some places affected by violence and disorder while others enjoy peace and stability? From the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts, “Root of Conflict” analyzes violent conflict around...
show more
Why are some places affected by violence and disorder while others enjoy peace and stability? From the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts, “Root of Conflict” analyzes violent conflict around the world, and the people, societies, and policy issues it affects. We meet with leading experts to discuss what can be done to create more peaceful societies.
This series is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the Harris School of Public Policy. We're produced and hosted by Hannah Balikci and edited by Nishita Karun.
Learn more about Root of Conflict here.
show less
This series is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the Harris School of Public Policy. We're produced and hosted by Hannah Balikci and edited by Nishita Karun.
Learn more about Root of Conflict here.
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