Reimagining Our World

Sovaida Maani Ewing
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This podcast is dedicated to creating a vision of a peaceful and secure world, grounded in justice and infusing the hope and confidence that we can make the principled choices necessary to attain it. 

  1. 09/28/2025

    Episode 51 - Navigating Times of Turbulence by Drawing on Lessons of the Past

    In times of perilous transition we often tell ourselves change is not possible or events are out of control and there is nothing we can do. In such times it helps to look to history for inspiration and as an aid to help us navigate the chaos. The story of two ordinary individuals—Raphael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht—shows how two men, deeply concerned with the needs of their time, separately made a conscious choice to bring about positive change and persevered until they succeeded against all the odds. Their deep commitment to justice, courage, creativity and dogged perseverance led to the creation of two international crimes: genocide and crimes against humanity. And it was their work, respectively, that laid the foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Lauterpacht) and the crafting of the Genocide Treaty (Lemkin)

    36 min

  2. 07/15/2025

    Episode 50 - New Logic for a Better World

    As Peter Drucker so aptly stated in his book "Managing in Turbulent Times," the greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself but acting with yesterday's logic. In this episode of "Reimagining Our World," I will highlight and explore 10 new ways of thinking proposed by Stephen Heintz in his report "A Logic for the Future," that should be included as foundational assumptions upon which to build a better world.

    24 min

  3. 06/03/2025

    Episode 49 - How We Can Stem the Tide of War

    Our world is unraveling at an accelerating pace. War and conflict are spreading like contagion, ravaging the face of the earth. Our efforts to stop the contagion have hitherto been ineffectual as we reach for the same outworn playbooks over and over again. And yet, we can and must act quickly to stop the contagion and the heartrending suffering it brings. It is time to understand and shed the habits that have held us back and take bold new steps and try new paths we have never considered before. Join me as we explore once such path together.

    28 min

  4. 03/12/2025

    Episode 48 - Corrosive Habits that Breed Polarization

    In this episode we’ll shed light  a set of corrosive habits that breed polarization and propose some antidotes to them.

    27 min

  5. 02/07/2025

    Episode 47 - Overcoming Polarization

    If you're disheartened by the deepening polarization in our world, wonder whether we can ever overcome it and where we might even begin, then this conversation is for you! Join me to explore a few practical things we can each do daily to build our individual and collective muscles for what seems like an impossibly heavy lift.

    25 min

  6. 12/05/2024

    Episode 46 - The Emperor Still Has No Clothes

    In this episode we examine the fact and ways in which the current global system for tackling climate change is broken,  how our false optimism that it will somehow magically succeed has stopped us from considering viable, effective alternatives, and what those alternatives might be, particularly one that I'd like to propose, for a World Parliament.

    22 min

  7. 10/29/2024

    ROW Episode 45

    In this episode, we're going to consider one significant respect in which we've been able to successfully reimagine and reform our electoral system in the United States. in the years since this country was born, demonstrating that further reforms are possible if we can muster the conviction that they are achievable and work tirelessly to achieve them.

    16 min

  8. 08/31/2024

    ROW Episode 44

    In this episode we highlight some ideas from the works of Arnold Toynbee, the famous 20th century world historian, about the stark choice that humanity would face in the atomic age of either achieving political unification or committing mass suicide and his prediction that in in the face of an existential threat brought about by circumstances of our own making, humanity would turn on a dime and voluntarily adopt a limited world-state even though it would likely do so kicking and screaming.

    21 min
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This podcast is dedicated to creating a vision of a peaceful and secure world, grounded in justice and infusing the hope and confidence that we can make the principled choices necessary to attain it. 

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  • Creator
    Sovaida Maani Ewing
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Reimagining Our World
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