Matthew Friedman is a leading, internationally renowned global expert on modern slavery and human trafficking. An award-winning public speaker, author, filmmaker, and philanthropist, Matthew regularly advises heads of governments and intelligence agencies. In this impactful conversation, Leopoldino Jeronimo and Matt Friedman delve into the pressing issue of modern slavery, exploring its causes, devastating impacts, and the challenges in detecting and eradicating it. Matt Friedman shares compelling stories of individuals affected by human trafficking and highlights the critical responsibility of businesses to maintain ethical practices in their supply chains. The discussion emphasizes the delicate balance between profit and ethics, the role of consumers in advocating for change, and the need for collaboration between corporations, governments, and NGOs. Friedman underscores that awareness and individual action are essential, demonstrating that everyone has a role to play in the fight against exploitation. Together, they paint a hopeful vision of a future where ethical business practices and collective action drive meaningful change. Matt's Books are available here: Where were you? A Profile of Modern Slavery: https://amzn.to/4joPkHZ
Be the HERO, be the change: https://amzn.to/3PFpxxQ
Dancing in the Light of the Moon: https://amzn.to/3Q4eP4h
In this conversation, Henry Yampolsky, J.D., through his book (Dis-Solving Conflict from Within: an Inner Path for Conflict Transformation), shares his journey from being a refugee to becoming an advocate for conflict resolution and social justice. He discusses the nature of conflict, emphasizing that it is not merely an external issue but a reflection of our internal state. Yampolsky introduces the concept of 'dissolving conflict from within' and outlines principles for conflict transformation, including the importance of mindfulness, creating space for response, and understanding the triggers of conflict. Through personal stories and insights, he highlights the need for inner work to effect change in the world.
Henry Yampolsky is a mediator, educator, TEDx speaker, and lawyer who serves as the Assistant Director for Education, Outreach, and Conflict Resolution at Virginia Tech’s Office for Equity and Accessibility.
Takeaways
Sound Bites
· Conflict is not separate from us.
· All change begins from within us.
· Peace is ultimately space.
Chapters
00:00Henry Yampolsky's Background and Motivation
05:14Understanding Conflict as a Reflection of Our Internal State
06:35The Mistaken View of Conflict as a Competition of Narratives
08:00The Three Elements of Conflict: Story, Attachment, and Emotion
09:28Dissolving Conflict from Within: Going Beyond Solving
11:59Internal and External Conflicts: All Change Begins from Within
15:17Triggers of Conflict and the Importance of Tuning Inward
15:47The Story of Henry Yampolsky's Mother and the Injustice She Faced
24:08The Accumulation of Ideas and the Confusion Between 'Ours' and 'Us'
31:05The Four Principles of Conflict Transformation: Tuning Inward, Observation without Evaluation, Expansion, and Exploration
37:54The Importance of Creating Space and Responding with Strength and Compassion
The conversation explores the urgent issue of school shootings and how to enhance school safety measures. The guest, Daniel Dluzneski, a retired lieutenant with the US Secret Service and former coordinator of emergency management, discusses his book 'The First Five Minutes: School Shooting Survival Guide for Administrators and Teachers' and the need for concise and practical information on school safety. The conversation covers topics such as the role of technology in school safety, the importance of human-centered training, the key steps teachers and administrators should take during a shooting, and the need for a multi-layered approach to school safety. The conversation covers the topics of lockdowns, run-hide-fight training, the Alice training program, conflict resolution in schools, and parent engagement in safety discussions.
Keywords: school shootings, school safety, technology, human-centered training, lockdowns, armed school resource officers, multi-layered approach, lockdowns, run-hide-fight, Alice training, conflict resolution, parent engagement, school safety
Takeaways
More about the guest
Daniel Dluzneski
Retired Lieutenant U.S. Secret Service Former Coordinator Emergency Management, Safety and Security Pinellas County Schools, Florida.
The Book on Amazon: The First Five Minutes: School Shooting Survival Guide for Administrators and Teachers
In this episode, host Leo interviews Jeffrey Charles Hardy, a global health planning futurist, about the concept of the second human evolution. Hardy argues that humanity is currently in a state of suspended evolution and explores the key indicators that led him to this conclusion. He also discusses the concept of caring for peace, which goes beyond traditional peacekeeping efforts, and emphasizes the importance of the planning process in facilitating the second human evolution. Hardy suggests that individuals and organizations can contribute to this vision by engaging in dialogue, adopting sustainable practices, and promoting care for peace. He also highlights the role of technology in supporting this process.
Keywords: second human evolution, suspended evolution, caring for peace, planning process, global mandate, individuals, organizations, technology
Takeaways
More about the Guest
Jeffrey Charles Hardy, President and Founder, Care for Peace 501(c)(3) Email: jeff@careforpeace.org Website: www.CareforPeace.org Author of: To Care for Peace – A Global Mandate to Secure The Second Human Evolution
Valentina Lana, a Lecturer at the Sciences Po law school in Paris, discusses the 2022 Corruption Perception Index, highlighting that global peace has deteriorated for the past decade and a half. Valentina is also a German Marshall Fund's 2023 Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Latest Valentina's publication:
Lana, V., & Sapin, M. (2023, March 3). The Impact of the Sapin II Act on the Extraterritorial Application of American law and on cooperation between France and the United States in the fight against international corruption | International Enforcement Law Reporter. https://www.ielr.com/content/impact-sapin-ii-act-extraterritorial-application-american-law-and-cooperation-between-france
Reference:
Transparency International. (2023, January 31). 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index. Transparency.Org. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
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The episode focuses on Sci-Fi and Practical Orientalism, Chapter 7 of Greta's book, and the Concluding Thoughts. Greta Lynn Uehling is the Author of Everyday War, a book resulting from her long-term research between 2015 and 2017 in Donbas, Ukraine. Greta is also a Teaching Professor at the University of Michigan. Greta's expertise includes international migration, human smuggling and trafficking, and refugee resettlement.
Reference
Uehling, G. L. (2023). Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine. Cornell University Press.
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Greta Lynn Uehling is the Author of Everyday War, a book resulting from her long-term research between 2015 and 2017 in Donbas, Ukraine. Greta is also a teaching Professor at the University of Michigan. Greta’s expertise includes international migration, human smuggling and trafficking, and refugee resettlement.
This episode introduces a sequence where Greta presents her research findings while exploring the political conflict implications in the noncombatant relationships between Ukraine and Russian identities, all sharing internally displaced person spaces. Each one had to adopt survival strategies, some of which caused social and family fractures. But most importantly, ensuring they remain alive among the casualties of that war.
Book Store: Amazon
Episode Cover: TDyuvbanova
Reference: Uehling, G. L. (2023). Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine. Cornell University Press.
Honoring International Women's Day 2023, we will dedicate the month of March 2023 to shed light on women’s issues across the black continent and dive into some of the structures that continue to create and maintain the existing gender gaps, focusing on forms of gender-based violence as a common continental challenge.
Mokshda Pertaub, a Lawyer, trained as a barrister from Mauritius with 25 years of experience in legal practice, judiciary, and legal advisory, as well as teaching and training, particularly in the areas of gender laws, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), children rights and environmental law. She is an international gender expert and a Gender Responsive Policing consultant with UNWomen for Senegal National Police, as well as a gender and law consultant with various international agencies like IOM, Equality Now, Agence France de Development, etc. She is also a judicial trainer in environmental law, cyber crimes and digital evidence, judicial ethics and integrity, and gender and violence.
Producer: Fatma Awadalla
Host: Leopoldino Jeronimo
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The Africa Forum at Brandeis University started a series of debates on what happens on the continent. Therefore, in this episode, you’ll hear Burkina Faso’s discussion with Fatim Wedraogo and the updates of Sudan with Yasser Adam. In between the participants of the debate session, have also delivered their elaborate questions for discussions.
After learning about the Political Instability in Sudan, and following up the active protests, the curse goes own in the continent. Armed groups killed two thousand people and displaced about one million and four hundred who had to flee for their lives. Ebenezer Obadare blogged at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 25. An informative situation report of the last Coup d’état about the military taking command of the government that was not delivering its promise of development. Instead, it led the country to chaos through increased violence against the population, political instability, and economic collapse.
The context in which countries differ their capability response to an outbreak is highly dictated by the global health system rules which place millions of civilians in the global south countries already trapped in ongoing political unrests and economic hardships, in vulnerabilities through which their inability to respond, poses a global security threat.
Samantha Lee shares her research findings and analysis of global health as it relates to security and international development. During the discussions we hold, her concerns are mostly around policy designs and governance in global health with a focus on the impacts of such decisions made at the top, to the people on the ground who are in constant need of accessible vaccines, testing kits, and locally applicable containment measures. Her arguments advocate for prevention as the best and cheapest solution for a global health crisis.
Links for more information on the data we used and a few extra relevant for the Global Health discussions:
Episode Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash
Fisher DA, Carson G, on behalf of the GOARN Steering Committee. Back to basics: the outbreak response pillars. Lancet 2020; published online August 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31760-8.
²Michaud, J., Moss, K., & Kates, J. (2021, May 21). The U.S. Government and Global Health Security. KFF. https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/the-u-s-government-and-global-health-security/
³Broad, W. J. (2020). Putin’s Long War Against American Science. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.html
⁴Howard, A. (2020). The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons. https://warontherocks.com/2020/05/the-pandemic-and-americas-response-to-future-bioweapons/
⁵Das, K. N. (2021). India could ship vaccines to COVAX in a few weeks, say sources. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-could-ship-vaccines-covax-few-weeks-say-sources-2021-11-09/
⁶Gostin LO, Halabi SF, Klock KA. An International Agreement on Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness. JAMA. 2021;326(13):1257–1258. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.16104
Worldometers.info (November 23, 2021) Coronavirus Cases. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A discussion journey, a simple preventive conflict analysis looking int to the status of the Liberian State.
For that, there is nothing better than to explore one of the oldest democratic states ever built in Africa, questionably from scratch waiving local and regional threats because of the conflicts between Liberian natives and the Settlers, Americo-Liberian repatriates in the 1800s.
Baba Sillah is a researcher in Global Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. And Ali Kaba, a researcher in International Development at the American University.
Your host: Leopoldino Jeronimo
Website: https://thinkingthroughwithlj.com/
Episode Cover: Evanto elements, by SteveAllenPhoto999
Perspectives and questions towards state making in Africa. A discussion with Ali Kaba a Ph.D. researcher at The American University. And yes, I mean Africa as a continent, not a country.
Some of Ali’s research interests include customary land governance, rural migration, and foreign investment in local communities.
Ali previously worked as a Program Director and Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI). A Liberian-based Non-Governmental Organization committed to transforming decision-making processes in land and natural resources.
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Valentina Lana, a Lecturer at the Sciences Po law school in Paris, rounds up the best anti-corruption practices in global policies in this last episode of three. As the last piece of her proposed knowledge map, Valentina ends with cheerful tones, a takeaway for institutions and people determined to embrace an anti-corruption system.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Additional Material:
UN. (2022). UN Office of the Iraq Program—Oil-for-Food. https://www.un.org/depts/oip/sector-food.html
Transparency International. (2013). Oil-for-food programme plagued by ‘lack of transparency’ and…. Transparency.Org. https://www.transparency.org/en/press/oil-for-food-programme-plagued-by-lack-of-transparency-and-scandalous-confl
An Inquiry on the U.N. Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme | NYU School of Law. (n.d.-a). Retrieved August 24, 2022, from https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/IILJ_IRAQ_OILFOOD
An Inquiry on the U.N. Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme | NYU School of Law. (n.d.-b). https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/IILJ_IRAQ_OILFOOD
Duke University School of Law. (2013, October 11). Investigating the United Nations Oil-For-Food Program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvhyg3zbqH0
Valentina Lana, a Lecturer at the Sciences Po law school in Paris, discusses the US, France, and UK anti-corruption laws. She describes best practices to create robust corporate programs to deter, prevent and combat corruption.
With Victor Uhuru a community organizer, conflict analyst, and specialist in Monitoring and Evaluation, I discuss the trends of democracy and ethnic conflicts in Kenya as it applies to his understanding of what the country awaits for brighter governance and an inclusive system. He argues on the intricacies of lack of public participation and discrepancies in coordinated efforts for better accountability while highlighting the most outstanding achievements Kenya has reached.
Valentina Lana, a Lecturer at the Sciences Po law school in Paris, discusses the concepts, magnitude, and nuances of the fight against corruption. In this series, Valentina sets the ground for her next few episodes in the legal framework guiding the global work of anti-corruption-based advocacy in public, private and societal landscapes.
References
Lana, V. & Sapin, M. (2022, April 14). Guest Post: France’s Anticorruption Turnaround–and the Path Forward. GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog. https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2022/04/14/guest-post-frances-anticorruption-turnaround-and-the-path-forward/
Lana, V. (2022). Covid19: A better humanity is incubating. Émile Magazine. https://www.emilemagazine.fr/article/2020/5/12/better-days-ahead-a-better-humanity-is-incubating
OECD. (2021). OECD - Public Integrity Indicators. https://oecd-public-integrity-indicators.org/
OECD. (2022). Opening remarks, followed by “Strengthening political integrity.” https://oecd-events.org/gacif2022/onlinesession/b0571382-9b7a-ec11-94f6-a04a5e7d3e1c
Transparency International. (2021a). 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index—Explore the results. Transparency.Org. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
Transparency International. (2021b). Corruption Perception Index 2021. https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/CPI2021_Report_EN-web.pdf
Phamolie Morris orris Kromah breaks it down to de essence of sustained peace and development for ECOWAS, the Economic West Africa Society. He elaborates on what sets back economic growth while also acknowledging the significant tipping progress to date. Among the detailed critical statistics, he also delivers a qualifying analysis driving a reflection on the autonomy of the region and the African Union as it relates to its functional external funding source. Moreover, what exactly will drive progress in the region, and if not ambitious, what about the continent?
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Introduction to Coercive Negotiation Pro-Seminar with Professor Eugene Kogan
Introduction to Coercive Negotiation Pro-Seminar with Professor Eugene Kogan