Researching Peace: A Podcast Conversation with Bridget Conley
By Marc Eliot Stein, October 28, 2026, World BEYOND War On Episode 89 of the World BEYOND War podcast, we invited Bridget Conley, Research Director
By Marc Eliot Stein, October 28, 2026, World BEYOND War On Episode 89 of the World BEYOND War podcast, we invited Bridget Conley, Research Director
“Beyond Borders” is the theme of World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2026 online conference next month. To preview this conference, I spoke with Khawaja Hammad Akbar, a peace builder in Pakistan who will be leading a panel on case studies of militarized borders and demilitarized zones with speakers from Korea, Gaza and the US/Mexico border. #WorldBEYONDWar
Marc Eliot Stein talks about the huge manufactured lies and slanders that progressives and peace activists constantly struggle to expose. The art of manufacturing a vicious lie was satirized by a song in the popular 1815 Italian opera “The Barber of Seville” that provides some historical perspective to the agonies we face today. #WorldBEYONDWar
Jhay de Jesus, World BEYOND War’s organizer for Asia, talks about the political, social and activist environment in the Philippines, his background in university politics in Manila, and his current work interacting with peace groups and activists all over Asia. #WorldBEYONDWar
Episode 85 of the World BEYOND War podcast is a conversation with Annachiara Canetta, our organizer for Europe. #WorldBEYONDWar
A pacifist meditation on battlefields and a walk through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, where a decision was made in the middle of the 19th century to obliterate the hills that held the ghosts of the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27 1776, one of the worst days in George Washington’s life. #WorldBEYONDWar
Daniel Che is a pacifist who left his home in Kyiv to live in Portugal and build Peaceful World, an online peace education project illuminated by Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy, the Woodstock Generation and Jainism. #WorldBEYONDWar
We invited Sahar Khan, expert in military bases and South Asia, to talk about the alarming news of multiple bombings and attacks on all sides in the Persian Gulf and near the Strait of Hormuz following the incredibly misguided and reckless USA/Israel rush to war against Iran that began this month. #WorldBEYONDWar
A few hours after I spoke to World BEYOND War’s board president for our monthly podcast, Israel and USA began a new war with Iran. #WorldBEYONDWar