Peace Catalyst Podcast

Michael J. Wood is an open-space coach and facilitator based in Melbourne, Australia. He’s been providing leadership coaching to leaders in the university, government, business, church, and community sectors for the last 15 years. He has a special interest in supporting people to make positive changes in the world whether or not they’re in formal management or leadership roles.

Elfidar was born in Urumchi, East Turkistan and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey until immigrating to the U.S. in 2000. She has over 20 years of marketing and project management experience, has taught the Uyghur language to U.S. government employees, and as the daughter of a prominent Uyghur writer and journalist, is an active member of the Uyghur community and an outspoken human rights

Katerina Gea is an organizer with The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery and coordinates the Repair Network. She also is the pastor of Wild Church in Fresno, CA, where she currently lives in the traditional homelands of various Yokuts and Mono nations on whose lands her Russian Mennonite ancestors settled. We talk with her about what the Doctrine of Discovery is, how

On this episode we talk with the 2022 Rick Love Young Innovators in Peacebuilding Award winners. We presented these awards to two young peacebuilders in honor of our late Founder Rick Love, who cared deeply about young people and wanted a new generation of peace builders to be raised up after him. Each winner received a financial award to help fund their work and provide them with

Peter Coleman is Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University and Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. He's a renowned expert on constructive conflict resolution and sustainable peace, and among many other things, he's also the author of over 100 articles and chapters, as well as multiple books, including The W

Today we talk with Ibrahim Anli and Mehmet Saracoglu, leaders of the Rumi Forum, an organization dedicated to fostering interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding. Rumi Forum website: https://rumiforum.org/ Edited by Nicole GibsonMusic: Soulmates by Yigit AtillaSupport the podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the Executive Director of Churches for Middle East Peace. She is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church and the author of several books, including Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action, Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World, Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age, and Forg

This week we’re talking with Pastor Czeslaw Kusmider from the town of Przemysl, Poland, just west of the border with Ukraine. Pastor Kusmider was called by his local community & government leaders at the beginning of the Ukraine crisis to help with the refugees that were coming from Ukraine into Poland, and he ended up converting his entire church into a refugee care center. In t

Andrew Larsen, a devoted peacemaker and long-time friend of Peace Catalyst, joins us to talk about a recent trip to Iraq and an unexpected personal meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as well as his own approach to bridge-building in the Middle East and the U.S. Andy has worked as a consultant to churches and nonprofit groups seeking to understand “the other,” particul

Today we talk with Greg and Todd, Co-Founders of fellow peacemaking organization The Telos Group. Before founding Telos, Greg lived in Ramallah, the West Bank, where he advised the Palestinian leadership on peace negotiations with Israel. He’s lectured widely on the Middle East and has been published by outlets like the New York Times, and he’s also an adjunct professor at Colu