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The Telos Channel, hosting the suite of Telos podcasts | Undaunted: In our divided and dangerous world, how can we choose peace? Join us on our journey to find answers, guided by radical peacemakers and their stories from the front-lines. When conflict seems intractable, these conversations give us the courage to choose a different way—a way of justice, healing, and hope. | The Check-in: an every-other-week deep dive into headlines from Israel/Palestine and across the world, where we wade into the complexity of seemingly intractable conflict to discover the power of peacemaking to heal us, our community and our world. 

  1. The Check-in: What's Happening in Northern Ireland?

    08.04.2025

    The Check-in: What's Happening in Northern Ireland?

    In the past year, Telos has launched a new peacemaking travel experience in Ireland & Northern Ireland, to see what we can learn from the history, movement, and current reality of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and how we can support the work of true justice and peace in the area. While we’re still in the early stages of this program,  we traveled with 5 different groups in 2024—and there’s already a lot we’ve learned. In this episode, we hear from Eli Philip, our staff member who runs these trips, on what you might expect from the trip as far as itinerary and locations. Then we hear from two of our board members who have both recently traveled with us to Ireland & Northern Ireland, Bretta Warren-Kim and Ainka Jackson, about their experiences—what they saw and felt, how it changed their perspective of peacemaking, and why they believe it's important to engage this story as Americans.  If you are interested, we have open spots on our upcoming Ireland & Northern Ireland trip, September 5th - 13th. Go to our website to get all the details. You can register there, or click on “Ask a Question” to contact us and find out more.  Leave a rating and review on Apple podcasts or Spotify If you’re enjoying the podcast, become a monthly donor to Telos! Subscribe to the Telos Newsletter Read and share the Principles and Practices of Peacemaking  Join us in September in Ireland & Northern Ireland

    41 Min.
  2. The Check-in: The Cost of Free Speech — On Mahmoud Khalil

    01.04.2025

    The Check-in: The Cost of Free Speech — On Mahmoud Khalil

    Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident and green-card holder, was arrested without charge or warrant on private grounds for his activism during last year’s encampments in protest of the genocide in Gaza. He is currently detained in Louisiana, alongside a number of other legal residents and foreign national scholars who have also been arrested and detained without charge—including Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student of Tufts University who was arrested by plain clothes officers in plain sight over the weekend.  On what legal grounds are his, Rumeysa, and others’ arrests—or rather their abductions, as Greg puts it—sitting on? What does it mean for the status of free speech in our country and the protection of our constitutional rights? And what is our job right now as peacemakers to uphold the constitutional and human rights of all in the interest of our democracy and freedoms? We discuss some tangible next steps, essential talking points, and joint strategies for what to do. These are urgent times—yet they are full of opportunities for peacemakers to show up for justice, peace, and human rights.  -- If you’re enjoying the podcast, become a monthly donor to Telos! Subscribe to the Telos Newsletter Read and share the Principles and Practices of Peacemaking  Read Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from his detention center in Louisiana and watch his arrest.  Watch Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in Boston.

    36 Min.

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The Telos Channel, hosting the suite of Telos podcasts | Undaunted: In our divided and dangerous world, how can we choose peace? Join us on our journey to find answers, guided by radical peacemakers and their stories from the front-lines. When conflict seems intractable, these conversations give us the courage to choose a different way—a way of justice, healing, and hope. | The Check-in: an every-other-week deep dive into headlines from Israel/Palestine and across the world, where we wade into the complexity of seemingly intractable conflict to discover the power of peacemaking to heal us, our community and our world.