Researching Peace - en podd från Uppsala universitet

Why do we need data on conflicts in order to understand peace? The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) has been collecting systematic information on organized violence around the world for almost 40 years. In this episode of Researching…

Do we need to study civil resistance to better understand war and peace? Does civil resistance even work? If so, when and how? In this episode of Researching Peace, Erica Chenoweth - Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at…

Civil society initiatives for peace are valuable in conflict-affected regions. Peace research learns a lot from the good practices and paves the way for practitioners and policy-makers to make them realize what works and what not when it…

Peace research seeks to understand the causes, dynamics, and resolution of armed conflicts and organized violence. In this episode, Kjell-Åke Nordquist – Professor of International Relations at the University College Stockholm- is talking…

Conflict-ridden areas are at the focus of peace research in academia. But how does it feel to be on the ground? In this episode, Jamie LeSueur -Head of Emergency Operations at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…

Is there a divide between research and policy? If so, how does this gap manifest itself? In this episode, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs -Head of Research at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA)- and Govinda Clayton -Senior Researcher in Peace…

Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University has been working on understanding organized violence since 1971. In this episode, Peter Wallensteen -Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and…

Building on his background in British Intelligence John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was a global success. It has been followed by a series of other best-selling works, many of which have been filmed with prominent…

This episode of the Philosophy Tea, focusing on Naomi Klein, was recorded and edited at Reginateatern, which also served as the host venue for the event on 3 November 2021. In our second Philosophy Tea we discuss Naomi Klein’s timely and…

In this Philosophy Tea we scrutinize the life, achievements and legacy of the icon of nonviolent action Mohandas K. Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). His work began with Asian resistance against White rule in South Africa…

This episode discusses John Maynard Keynes’ important work of political economy, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Critical of the harsh reparation payments imposed on Germany after World War I by the Treaty of Versailles (1919)…

This episode of the Philosophy Tea, focusing on Fredrika Bremer, was recorded and edited at Reginateatern, which also served as the host venue for the event on 9 March 2021. Producer: Paul Kessel Author Fredrika Bremer (1801-1864) is…

This episode of the Philosophy Tea, focusing on Martha Nussbaum, was recorded and edited at Reginateatern, which also served as the host venue for the event on 2 February 2021. Producer: Paul Kessel In their discussion on American…

In this Philosophy Tea we discuss Camus’ highly topical, The Plague (La Peste). Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. The Plague has often been seen as an allegory of the Nazi Occupation of France during World War II.

Disarmament negotiator Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) was the focus in the Regina Theatre Philosophy Tea discussion on November 17, 2020 between Peter Wallensteen and Daniel Ogden and produced by Paul Kessel. Their discussion focuses on nuclear…

Inspired by George Orwell’s iconic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four, Margaret Atwood set about in 1984 to write a dystopia from, as she has said, “the female point of view”. That such a dystopia was needed can be seen by the popularity…

Nathan Söderblom and World Peace. In this episode we take up the Uppsala-based theologian, Archbishop Nathan Söderblom (1866-1931). We examine his ideas for forging cooperation between different Christian denominations and for using…

John Locke and Natural Law Our second philosophy tea discusses the groundbreaking ideas of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on natural law in his Two Treatises of Government (1689) and the impact they had on the formulation of human…

Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) This season’s first philosophy tea discusses Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) and the role she played in creating the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In…

On Perpetual Peace (1795) Immanuel Kant's Philosophical sketch for World Order. Immanuel Kant's Philosophical sketch for World Order became important to peace movements in the 19th century and inspired world organizations, such as the…

30th October 2019 – Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) The Tragedy of Kashmir and the Partition of India. Set in New Delhi and the troubled region of Kashmir, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by award-winning novelist…

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” The Nightmarish World of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). The legacy of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four is well established. Phrases such as “Big Brother is watching…

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”, The Souls of Black Folks (1903). What unites the African Union in Addis Ababa and former president, Barack Obama, in the White House? The threads go back to W. E. B.

When Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was published in 1962 it was an instant bestseller and a resounding alarm-bell: human activities were about to destroy the very conditions that made human existence possible. Being a marine biologist…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A misunderstood philosopher? Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was, and still is, a controversial thinker. He has been blamed for the excesses of the French Revolution and preparing the way for twentieth-century…

Nigeria in a Globalized World - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s, Americanah (2013) This Philosophy Tea discusses the portrayal of post-colonial Nigeria in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). Driven by political instability and…

Amartya Sen - Development and Freedom Amartya Sen (born 1933) is a respected economist and philosopher from India with a broad perspective on development, inequality, freedom, democracy and social progress. In his widely read Development…

Philosophy Tea, september 25th 2018 Leaving Europe Behind – Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) In our first Philosophy Tea for autumn 2018, we follow the sea adventurer, Lemuel Gulliver, on a voyage of self-discovery away from his…

"A World Built on Rationality". In his Power: A New Social Analysis from 1938 the empirically acute philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), reacting to the way the world was developing in the 1930s, provided a book that…

”A World Without Feeling". A discussion of Karin Boye’s dystopian novel Kallocain (1940)”. This episode was recorded and edited at Reginateatern, which also served as the host venue for the event on 6 February 2018. Producer: Paul Kessel…