Peace Is Here explores global peace light-hearted touch and a scholar’s heart. Join Avis Kalfsbeek, writer of environmental fiction, for a layperson's curriculum of peace. She explores peace treaties, nature’s quiet wisdom, and the down-to-earth creativity required for #TheGreatDisarmament. From deep-dive series on peace heroes to fiction stories and personal riffs, Avis looks beneath the surface to see the peace that is already here.
Ep 334 Peacewarts Lab 10-10-26: Why Do Humans Annihilate While Nature Doesn’t? The making of Biomimic Defense 101
Ep 334 Peacewarts Lab 10-10-26: Why Do Humans Annihilate While Nature Doesn’t? The making of Biomimic Defense 101
Avis takes you behind the scenes of the Peacewarts curriculum and the making of the upcoming class, Biomimic Defense 101. She riffs with Gemini, asking, “Is all this human war just the same thing that nature is doing, or are we aberrant?” Gemini explains why human societies resort to total destruction while nature-first systems rely on balance, boundaries, and mutual survival.
Learning Topics: Biological defense versus human conflict, why nature does not annihilate, crafting Biomimic Defense 101, the limits of evolutionary instinct, and designing nonviolent systems.
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9 Oct 2026
Ep 333 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 – The Biggest Morph: 100% Disarmament (Class 14)
Ep 333 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 – The Biggest Morph: 100% Disarmament (Class 14)
In our final class in Morphological Peace, we examine the difference between a system that is stable and one that is merely frozen. Drawing on C.S. Holling's work on resilience and the rigidity trap, Charles Perrow's normal accident theory, and Thomas Schelling's own account of why deterrence depends on human hesitation, we look at what happens when machine-speed decision-making removes the slack from the nuclear architecture. Using John Wesley Powell's rejected watershed commonwealths and the Colorado River Compact that followed, a century of American fire suppression and the megafires it produced, and South Africa's dismantling of its own nuclear arsenal, we explore how frozen forms can be deliberately unwound rather than left to shatter.
Homework:1. Search "South Africa nuclear weapons dismantled." Note how long it took and who verified it.2. Write down one question about any of this episode's topics. If you don't have a question, write 'no question.'3. Optional: Find out what watershed you live in, and journal about what you would decide together with the people in it.
Books: Resilience Thinking by Brian Walker and David Salt, Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, and The Abolition by Jonathan Schell.
Learning Topics: Stable versus Frozen; The Rigidity Trap; Command and Control Pathology; Normal Accidents; Decision-Time Compression; Meaningful Human Control; The Colorado River Compact; Watershed Governance; South African Disarmament.
Join the Community / Get the Books: https://www.AvisKalfsbeek.comPodcast Music: Javier Peke Rodriguez "I am late, madame Curie" https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
7 Oct 2026
Ep 332 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 - Will We Have War Statues When We No Longer Have Weapons (Class 13)
Ep 332 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 - Will We Have War Statues When We No Longer Have Weapons (Class 13)
We examine how reframing public memorials from celebrating militaristic dominance to prompting active civic reflection and human reconciliation is essential for reaching 100% peace. Using real-life peace gardens like the International Peace Garden and Hiroshima Memorial Park, alongside a visionary holographic peace memorial, we explore how stepping away from militarism channels human strength into building and fixing our communities.
Homework
Look up the history of the International Peace Garden on the border of North Dakota and Manitoba and summarize its role in public life.
Write down one question about any of this episode's topics. If you don't have a question, write 'no question.'
Optional: Reflect on a war memorial or public statue in your region. Journal about how you would redesign it to honor the human desire for peace and everyday life.
Books: If you would like to read more on this subject, some book suggestions are The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James E. Young, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments by Erin L. Thompson, and Landscape of Memory: Commemorative Monuments, Memorials and Public Statuary in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Sabine Marschall.
Learning Topics: Grammar of Public Monuments; Counter-Monuments; Cultural Demilitarization; Real-Life Peace Gardens; Architecture of Reconciliation.
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Podcast Music: Javier Peke Rodriguez "I am late, madame Curie" https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
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