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Making Peace Visible
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In the news media, war gets more headlines than peace, conflict more airtime than reconciliation. And in our polarized world, reporting on conflict in a way that frames conflicts as us vs. them, good vs. evil often serves to dig us in deeper. On Making Peace Visible, we speak with journalists and peacebuilders who help us understand the human side of conflicts and peace efforts around the world. From international negotiations in Colombia to gang violence disruptors in Chicago, to women advocating for their rights in the midst of the Syrian civil war, these are the storytellers who are changing the narrative. Making Peace Visible is a project of War Stories Peace Stories (www.warstoriespeacestories.org), and hosted by Boston-based documentary filmmaker Jamil Simon.
Refugees and immigration: what’s missing from the narrative
As of May 2023, there were an estimated 110 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Many are ...
Telling murder stories differently
On Making Peace Visible, we are always questioning the mantra, if it bleeds, it leads. Boston’s Charles Stuart murder case is a classic example of wha...
Why we make this show: An interview with Jamil Simon
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All the peace we cannot see
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Democracy Works: Between Democracy and Autocracy
Between democracy and autocracy is an anocracy, defined by political scientists as a country that has elements of both forms of government — usually o...
Unmasking American myths about war and the military
In the United States, about one sixth of the federal budget goes to defense. This year the country spent more on the military than any year since 2001...
Storytelling with equal-opportunity empathy
Trey Kay knows both sides of America's partisan divide intimately. He was born and raised in a conservative family in Charleston, West Virginia. As a...
In Modi's India, journalists must toe the line or risk jail time
Western media has often referred to India as the world’s largest democracy. But during the last decade, the world has witnessed the decline of many de...
How do we design for peace?
On Making Peace Visible we usually focus on stories -- narratives about peace and conflict that are told in the news, on social media, and shared in o...