In the news media, war gets more headlines than peace, conflict more airtime than reconciliation. On The Making Peace Visible Podcast, we speak with journalists and peacebuilders who help us understand the human side of conflicts and peace efforts around the world, including here in the United States. It’s a production of a small nonprofit also called Making Peace Visible.

I have produced and edited this podcast since it’s fourth episode, in May 2022, and began contributing interviews in July 2023.


SELECTED EPISODES

Journalist and documentary filmmaker Etant Dupain presents a behind-the-headlines look at events in Haiti, his home country. Dupain says that the gangs who control much of the country now are supported by powerful elites. Their aim, his says, is to suppress a grassroots protest movement that is calling for accountability for the embezzlement of billions of dollars in development funds.

Dupain's documentary film, The Fight for Haiti, tells the story of the Haitian movement against corruption and impunity, which started with a tweet and at its height had hundreds of thousands in the street.

During the January ceasefire, I interviewed shrewd political observer and passionate peacebuilder Ksenia Svetlova, a former Middle East reporter and Knesset member. We discussed the impact of the war on the media, and Svetlova’s vision for long term regional peace.

Host Jamil Simon speaks with Tehran-based journalist Reza Sayah about the death of Mahsa Amini and the women’s protests in Iran in the fall of 2022. Sayah has reported on Iran for CNN, Al Jazeera and France 24.

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