Got Conflict? Let’s Talk Peacebuilding is a podcast by the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), a network of more than 225 organizations working globally in 181 countries to reduce and prevent violent conflict and build sustainable peace.
Got conflict? Of course we do! Because conflict is inevitable, but violent conflict is not. In this podcast, we discuss what is driving record-breaking global violent conflict, and more importantly, what we can do to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable peace—in our neighborhoods just down the street and in faraway places.
Making Peacebuilding a First-Order Issue: Learning From the Past and Applying it to the Future
AfP's Executive Director Liz Hume and John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, explore how to make peacebuilding a first-order issue by reframing its value and impact.
19 Dec 2024
Measuring Peace: How the Peacebuilding Field Can Enable and Evaluate Effective Interreligious Dialogue
Peacebuilding expert Dr. Maria J. Stephan discusses how the Peacebuilding Field can develop and evaluate effective interreligious dialogue initiatives to foster global peace and understanding.
24 Oct 2023
AfP at 20: More than Two Decades of Peacebuilding
In 2022, AfP celebrated its 20th anniversary, and today, it is a thriving and robust network of over 200 organizations and more than 30,000 global peacebuilders in 181 countries working to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace. But how did it all start? Over two decades ago, a small group of visionary peacebuilders established the Alliance for Peacebuilding, officially incorporating it in 2002. These founding leaders knew we needed to work together if we wanted to build and ad...
17 Aug 2023
Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America's Conflict Dynamics
The January 6th attack on the United States Capitol forced Americans to confront what conflict and peacebuilding experts have warned for years: that even before the 2016 elections, dangerous conflict dynamics are increasing in the U.S., resulting in greater instability and violence. The data shows that identity-based conflicts—fear of us versus them— are driving this win-lose conflict. But why now in the U.S. are political instability and violence becoming such serious threats to our dem...
17 Nov 2022
Gender, Sex, & Peace: How the Security of Women & LGBTQ+ Communities Determines Security for All
Just last month, the United Nations observed the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, setting the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. In recent years, the world has seen both tremendous achievements and setbacks in relation to the status of women and LGBTQ+ individuals—from Iran to Afghanistan to Myanmar. In this episode of AfP's Peace: We Build It! podcast, join host Tanya Domi and guests Dr. Valerie Hudson, University Distinguished Professor and George H.W...
14 Sept 2022
Changing the Narrative to Hope, Dignity, and Building Connections: A Peacebuilding Cure for High Conflict
How can we talk about peacebuilding to best position it as the tool of first resort? How can we reframe peace to make it feel possible? In this episode of AfP’s Peace: We Build It! podcast, join host Tanya Domi and guests Liz Hume, AfP’s Executive Director, and Amanda Ripley, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author, for a conversation exploring how the media, peacebuilding field, and public can inject hope, agency, and dignity into conversations around con...
28 Jun 2022
Ending the Silence: How the International Community can Prevent and Bring Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict
Rape is the most common form of torture in armed conflicts—from Bosnia, to Kosovo, to Iraq, and now Ukraine—yet it remains rarely prosecuted by international courts. What can the peacebuilding and international communities do to end this silence? And how can they both hold perpetrators accountable and prevent these atrocities in the future? In this special episode of AfP’s Peace: We Build It! podcast hosted by AfP’s Executive Director Liz Hume, we answer these essential questions. AfP is...
10 May 2022
Cybersecurity and Peace: How the Peacebuilding Field is Working to Build Cyber Resilience
Growing cyberthreats to peace and security are coming to light—from attacks on election and critical to infrastructure, to healthcare, to the financial sector. In light of this, how is the peacebuilding field working to build cyber resilience, and what is it learning from its efforts? In this episode, join host Tanya Domi, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume, and guests Digital Peace Now Global Ambassadors Raj Burli and Gurmehar Kaur for a conversation around what exactly cyber resilience me...
15 Mar 2022
It Can Happen Here: White Supremacy and the Growing Threat of Atrocities in the U.S.
Since January 6th, 2021, Americans have been grappling with the shocking rise of white supremacy and white nationalism that drove a mob to the U.S. Capitol with the aim to stop the Electoral College vote count by Congress. Although the insurrectionists failed to stop the vote, the events of January 6th have instigated a broader conversation and questioning about who we are. America is reckoning with the fact that it is not exceptional. Indeed, these extreme elements have always been in our so...
15 Dec 2021
A Future in Peril: What What Can Be Done to Stop the War in Ethiopia?
Fighting in Ethiopia began in early November 2020, when forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked a federal army base in the region, leading Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to order a military offensive against the rebels, leaving thousands of dead. UN human rights reporting indicates that serious violations occurred on all sides, which may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. While more than seven million people need humanitarian aid in northern Ethiopia toda...
29 Oct 2021
Israel-Palestine: Illusive Peace
In the 1990s, a breakthrough agreement negotiated between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Oslo, Norway, set out a process for a mutually negotiated two-state solution to be gradually implemented by the end of the decade. Although the process showed initial promise and progress, a combination of dissatisfaction and distrust led to the breakdown and delay of the process. After frustration and provocation led to the outbreak of violence in 2000, the process proved difficult to restart before ...
10 Aug 2021
COVID & Conflict: Building Sustainable Peace During & After the Pandemic
In the seventh episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and Mercy Corps guests Mayesha Alam, Senior Advisor of Research and Strategy, and Ryan Sheely, Director of Research - Governance and Conflict. This episode explores Mercy Corps' recent report, A Clash of Contagions: The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict in Nigeria, Colombia, and Afghanistan and provides policy recommendations for a comprehensive U.S. COVID-19 strategy. ...
6 Jul 2021
Interview of Velma Saric: How Does a Country Build Peace in the Aftermath of Genocide?
In the sixth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and guest Velma Saric—Founder and President of the Post-Conflict Research Center and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Balkan Diskurs—to learn about the Srebrenica Genocide. Last year on July 11th, we marked the 25th anniversary of the genocide. This episode explores the history, current updates, and how to build peace in the genocide's aftermath. Be sure to also check out Bosnia Is ...
21 Jun 2021
From Juneteenth to June 2021: How Structural Racism Persists and the Way Forward
In this fifth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Allan-Charles Chipman, FaithRooted Organizer & Transformation Strategist for Initiatives of Change USA, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss Juneteenth, structural racism in the United States, and actions we can take today. Support the show
25 May 2021
Ending the Forever War or Ensuring War Forever in Afghanistan?
In this fourth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Megan Corrado, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy; Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Founder & Executive Director of ICAN; and Wahzma Frogh, Co-founder and Director of the Women & Peace Studies Organization sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the announced military withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, and implications on the peace process and gains made by Afg...
6 May 2021
The Ultimate Crime: We Need to Talk About Genocide
In this third episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, genocide scholars Gregory Stanton, Founding President and Chairman of Genocide Watch, and Maxim A. Pensky, Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the crime of genocide, exploring past genocides from Armenia to Darfur, as well as ongoing genocides against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang and the Tigrayans ...
1 Apr 2021
Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World
In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and Associate Professor with George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the progress of and challenges facing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda 20 years after passage ...
10 Mar 2021
Violent Conflict is Increasing Globally and in the United States: What Do We Know & What Can We Do About it?
In this first episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Acting CEO and President of AfP, Liz Hume, will sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss what is driving increasing global violent conflict and fragile states including at home in the United States, the challenges to reducing and preventing it, and how people, organizations, governments and corporations all over the world are building sustainable peace. The Alliance for Peacebuilding (Af...
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