by Camila Rios
Puzzle Peaceing challenges the idea that you must be a shark to navigate global conflict. As a researcher, paralegal, and student of international law, I distill and reframe the world's hardest questions through neuroscience, international law, and lived experience. We don't just read treaties. We examine the language of crisis, the psychology of inaction, and why empathy is a more rigorous political strategy than most people are willing to admit. Reaction is biology. Peace is rigorous.
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June 17, 2026
<p>The medical and psychological research on immigration detention uses a phrase that sits flat on the page: chronic uncertainty.</p><p>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.</p><p>This episode is a direct reading of my latest Substack piece from The Sort by Puzzle Peaceing. It looks past the standard political talking points to answer a deeper, systemic question: What does sustained instability actually do to a child’s developing brain, and why will the consequences of that rewiring travel with them regardless of which side of a border they end up on?</p><p>We are sorting the invisible variables that the headlines miss—from strategic chokepoints in the Persian Gulf to the relational fabric of our local communities.</p><p>Read the essay and view the source research on Substack: substack.com/@puzzlepeaceing</p>
May 11, 2026
<p>Last week we asked why disagreement is so hard. This week we ask what to do about it.</p><p>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.</p><p>If you came up in last week's episode about Jonathan Haidt and you have been wondering what we are supposed to do with the diagnosis, this is the practice. Not a checklist but a way of paying attention, especially in the small moments where the gut moves before the mind has caught up.</p><p>By the end of this episode, you will have three observations you can carry into your next disagreement. A clearer sense of why most peacebuilding work happens in private, long before any conversation begins. Maybe, if it lands, a small new muscle for catching the barriers you might otherwise build without noticing.</p>
April 29, 2026
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This is Part 1: the diagnosis. Part 2, out next week, where we sit with what to do about it.</p>
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Puzzle Peaceing challenges the idea that you must be a shark to navigate global conflict.
As a researcher, paralegal, and student of international law, I distill and reframe the world's hardest questions through neuroscience, international law, and lived experience. We don't just read treaties. We examine the language of crisis, the psychology of inaction, and why empathy is a more rigorous political strategy than most people are willing to admit.
Reaction is biology. Peace is rigorous.
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