Uniting Nations

Metta Center for Nonviolence

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Exploring the intersection of the work of nonviolence and the goals of the United Nations.

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Our Shared Humanity=Justice for All: A Conversation with Saffet Catovic

Saffet Catovic is the Director of the United Nations Operations for Justice for All, a faith-based, human-rights organization.

37 min
MAR 4

Healing Activism in the Pacific: A Conversation with Bedi Racule

Bedi Racule is a nuclear and climate justice advocate from the Pacific - hailing from the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia). She began her advocacy journey with MISA4thePacific - a youth grassroots organization, sharing stories of nuclear testing in the Pacific with young people and communities around the world. Bedi currently resides in Fiji and serves as an ecumenical enabler for climate justice at the Pacific Conference of Churches, where she tackles issues rela...

32 min
12/31/2023

Stop Killer Robots

In this episode, guest Sai Bourotho with Automated Decision Research discusses Stop Killer Robots. Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of more than 250 civil society organizations working together to prevent digital dehumanization, build a better society, and overcome inequalities and systems of oppression through the creation of legally binding rules on autonomy in weapons systems.

13 min
10/29/2023

UN Academic Impact Initiative & Nonviolence

In this episode we speak with Ramu Damodaran who is the first chief of the United Nations’s Academic Impact Initiative.

16 min
09/24/2023

International Day of Nonviolence and the UN's Potential

Ela Gandhi is the chairperson of the Gandhi Development Trust and Phoenix Settlement Trust, The Metta Center's board member, and the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Listen to this episode where she speaks about the significance of International Day of Nonviolence, observed on 2 October every year to commemorate the birthday of her grandfather. She also discusses the potential that nonviolence has for the UN, and our collective responsibility to empower and strengthen the global institution.&...

16 min
08/27/2023

The UN: A Home for Peacebuilders

Yehuda Silverman is a "pracademic" and a Cultural Exchange Assistant of the peacebuilding network, Acquaint, “a nonprofit platform where people around the world grow and learn through human connections.” He joins Uniting Nations to speak about peacebuilding, dialogue, and his hope and idealism for the United Nations as a peacebuilding entity through his participation in some of the UN’s key peacebuilding programs.

18 min
07/30/2023

Uniting Nations - UNHCR

On today’s episode we speak with Jean Nicolas Beuze UN HRC representative in Iraq.

20 min
06/25/2023

Seville Statement on Violence

In this episode we speak with a retired scientist who was instrumental in the creation of the Seville Statement on Violence from 1986, which brought together scientists for UNESCO to refute the claims that underpin violence and war that we are predestined and genetically inclined toward violence and destruction as a species. David discusses this document as well as his work within the UN system for a Culture of Peace, including the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace

13 min
05/28/2023

Nonviolent Peaceforce

In this episode of Uniting Nations -- Gay Rosenblum-Kumar from Nonviolent Peaceforce. Nonviolent Peaceforce's mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side by side with local communities and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. Gay is the UN representative of the NP based in New York.

23 min
04/30/2023

NGO Committee on the Status of Women

This episode of Uniting Nations features Houry Geudelekian, the Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW), New York. The NGO CSW is the convener of global civil society for the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and global gender equality advocacy. The UN convenes the Commission, or CSW for short, every year, for a period of two weeks. There, representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities gather at UN headquart...

15 min
02/26/2023

Zaporizhzhya Protection Project

In this episode of Uniting Nations, John Reuwer from World BEYOND War shares an example of UCP at work in one of the deadliest, most violent conflicts in the world today: the war in Ukraine. While NATO and independent governments continue to increase military aid to both sides, the Zaporizhzhya Protection Project is endeavoring to end the war from an entirely different angle, that is, by training volunteers to support the UN’s efforts to ensure that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant remain...

14 min
01/21/2023

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

On January 22nd, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. It’s the first international treaty that comprehensively prohibits any activities related to nuclear weapons, that includes developing, testing, producing, and manufacturing.An interesting dynamic has emerged in recent years at the UN: to have this kind of shift in the narrative about what does security really mean? In this episode, Anna Ikeda with Sokka Gakkai International and Mary Yelenick wit...

11 min

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Exploring the intersection of the work of nonviolence and the goals of the United Nations.

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Metta Center for Nonviolence
Years Active

2023 - 2024
Episodes

12
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Clean
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Uniting Nations

Uniting Nations

Episodes

Our Shared Humanity=Justice for All: A Conversation with Saffet Catovic

Healing Activism in the Pacific: A Conversation with Bedi Racule

Stop Killer Robots

UN Academic Impact Initiative & Nonviolence

International Day of Nonviolence and the UN's Potential

The UN: A Home for Peacebuilders

Uniting Nations - UNHCR

Seville Statement on Violence

Nonviolent Peaceforce

NGO Committee on the Status of Women

Zaporizhzhya Protection Project

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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