Disrupting Peace

This week, we’re bringing you a bonus episode from our friends at the “If You Were in Charge” podcast. In a world increasingly led by autocratic superpowers, exploiting fear and uncertainty, the premise of if you were in charge is simple: for every major problem out in the world, there are ordinary people finding extraordinary solutions.The episode we’re sharing is “AI: Anasuya Sengupta on Colonizing and Liberating Knowledge.” Sengupta is the cofounder of “Whose Knowledge?”, a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.“If You Were in Charge” is produced by ADA Productions, a podcast agency based in London, in partnership with the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) for women's rights, peace and security. It i hosted by: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, a peace strategist, founder, and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), and Kavita Nandini Ramdas, a globally recognised advocate for gender equity and justice and a Senior Strategic Advisor to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).Disrupting Peace is a production of the World Peace Foundation.

In our last episode of the season, we explore concrete tools and tips to get smarter about the information we consume.Ebonee Otoo leads the development of social impact strategies and goals at the News Literacy Project. Her career has spanned entertainment, public policy, and community outreach, working with Golden Girl Media, BET Networks and the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute, among other organizations.Dan Evon oversees producing content for RumorGuard at the News Literacy Project, including articles, classroom slide presentations, video guides and other educational materials. Before joining the News Literacy Project in 2022, Dan worked as a reporter for Snopes.com, the internet’s oldest fact-checking site, where he monitored disinformation networks and addressed viral rumors.Resource list:https://www.rumorguard.org/https://newslit.org/“Biased,” “Boring” and “Bad”: Unpacking perceptions of news media and journalism among U.S. teens (2025)We’d love to hear your thoughts about Disrupting Peace. Fill out a short survey here: https://worldpeacefoundation.org/surveyDisrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. The show is produced by Bridget Conley and Emily Shaw. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and Social media by Kaelen Song. Show artwork by Simon Fung. This season was partially funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Special thanks to Lisa Avery and Alex de Waal, and the Tufts Digital Design Studio team.Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at worldpeacefoundation.org. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @worldpeacefdtn.

This season, we’ve been looking into the forces that get in the way of accurate information and peacemaking. One theme has repeated across discussions: how AI can muddy the information ecosystem in ways that fuel conflicts. Today, we’re spinning this issue around and asking: how can new technologies and AI benefit peace?Johanna Poutanen is the Head Inclusion and Digital Innovation at the CMI Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, where one of her priorities is to address the opportunities and risks that digital technologies present for peacemaking. She has over two decades of experiences in mediation, including in Yemen, Palestine, South Sudan and Nepal. Find out more at: https://cmi.fi/Evelyne Tauchnitz is a post-doc and lecturer at the University of Lucerne’s Graduate School in Ethics. Her research focuses on how digital technologies can be employed to build, support, and maintain peace through non-violent methods of conflict transformation. Find out more here.Check out our episode on AI & Autonomous Weapons here.We’d love to hear your thoughts about Disrupting Peace. Fill out a short survey.Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. This episode was produced by Bridget Conley, Emily Shaw, and Ben Montoya. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and Social media by Kaelen Song. Show artwork by Simon Fung. This season was partially funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Special thanks to Lisa Avery and Alex de Waal, and the Tufts Digital Design Studio team.Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at worldpeacefoundation.org. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @worldpeacefdtn.

At a time when the impacts of climate change are undeniable, why does misinformation about it still work… and what can we do about it? In this episode, Bridget speaks with experts to learn more about the right - and wrong - ways to counter misinformation related to climate change, and how this applies to our greater interest in peacebuilding.John Cook is a senior research fellow with the Melbourne Center for Behavior Change at the University of Melbourne and creator of Cranky Uncle, a game that uses cartoons, humor, and critical thinking to fight misinformation. Check out the Cranky Uncle game (available on iPhone and Android devices) at: https:/crankyuncle.com/ Learn more about John’s work at: https://skepticalscience.com/Nadia Lozano is a research assistant and associate producer with University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication The Center empowers journalists and other communicators to tell stories about climate change through training that amplifies science, elevates communities, and engages audiences. Check out her podcast, All Things Sustainable here.We’d love to hear your thoughts about Disrupting Peace. Fill out a short survey here: https://worldpeacefoundation.org/survey Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. This episode was produced by Bridget Conley, Emily Shaw, and Ben Montoya. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and Social media by Kaelen Song. Show artwork by Simon Fung. This season was partially funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Special thanks to Lisa Avery and Alex de Waal, and the Tufts Digital Design Studio team.Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at worldpeacefoundation.org. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @worldpeacefdtn.

What beliefs make people willing to commit violence, and what could change their minds? In this episode, we explore what makes individuals vulnerable to white supremacist beliefs, what it means when extremism becomes mainstream, the surprising permeability of these groups, and how to talk to people in your life who express racist ideology.Peter Simi is a professor of Sociology at Chapman University, and an expert on extremist groups and violence in the US. Among his many publications, he is co-author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate, and Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can be Stopped. Find out more about Peter at: https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/pete-simi.aspx. Sara Winegar Budge holds a doctorate in Psychology and is a licensed psychologist in Oregon. She is the Director of US Programs at Moonshot, which builds technology to identify and disrupt organized crime, child sexual exploitation, and trafficking, among other forms of abuse and violence. Her clinical work focuses on individuals who are or have been involved in violent extremism. Find out more at https://moonshotteam.com/In this episode, we talk about Stephen Tyrone Johns, Bridget's former colleague from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who was killed by a white supremacist. You can learn more about him, and contribute to a fund in his name, here: https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/in-memoriam/stephen-tyrone-johns-1969-2009.Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. The show is produced by Bridget Conley and Emily Shaw. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and Social media by Kaelen Song. Show artwork by Simon Fung. This season was partially funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Special thanks to Lisa Avery and Alex de Waal, and the Tufts Digital Design Studio team.Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at worldpeacefoundation.org. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok at @worldpeacefdtn.