Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogues

National Peace Academy’s Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogues invites distinguished peacebuilders and peace educators into dialogue with the National Peace Academy community of students and supporters.   Each 60-90 minute teleconference introduces important and emergent issues and efforts of concern to peacebuilders and will invite guests to engage with speakers through moderated dialogue and Q&A.

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Past Dialogues

Frans Verhagen: “The Tierra Solution: Resolving the Climate Crisis through Monetary Transformation”
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

This special Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogue, recorded September 26, 2012, featured Frans Verhagen speaking about his new book “The Tierra Solution: Resolving the Climate Crisis through Monetary Transformation.”   The Tierra Solution deals with decarbonization as part of a proposed transformed international monetary system where a specific tonnage of CO2e per person becomes its monetary standard. In such system the strength of a nation’s economy and currency is determined by its approximation of this standard in its use of renewable energy efforts away from fossil fuels. The strategy and prospects of this Tierra system proposal of integrated global governance were discussed.

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Dr. Kathleen Barry: “Awakening our Consciousness to the Inhumanity of War: Critical Reflections on Media, Militarism and Masculinity”
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Dr. Kathleen Barry shared with participants her perspectives on the possibilities for consciousness raising and the critical role of empathy in addressing the inhumanity of war through a critical inquiry into the relationship between media, militarism and masculinity.

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Rinaldo Brutoco: “Economics and Peace” with Michael Shank
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Rinaldo Brutoco, President of the World Business Academy, shared with participants his perspectives on the topic of “Economics and Peace.”  This special dialogue also featured Michael Shank, US Vice President at the Institute for Economics and Peace and a board member of the National Peace Academy.

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Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, “The Human Right to Peace”
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 

Ambassador Chowdhury shared with teleconference participants the vision of the Human Right to Peace that has been developed in consultation with civil society as well as introduce the goals of the effort to introduce and adopt the Santiago Declaration on the Human Right to Peace at the United Nations.  At the conclusion of his talk,  Ambassador Chowdhury invited questions and dialogue with call participants.

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