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4/14/08 - Len and Libby Traubman—An Ordinary Couple Doing Extraordinary Work
Len and Libby Traubman, individual peacemakers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, are ordinary people doing extraordinary acts of peace. They have been dedicated to the reconciliation of Jewish and Palestinian people one person at a time. As you listen to the show, you will learn about their deep commitment to peace through listening, their Jewish Palestinian Dialogue Group, their Peace Camps in the Sierra Nevada that are now being replicated around the world, their film documentaries, and their amazing energy and devotion to peace and peace building. If you would like to receive their documentary films demonstrating how they teach peace and engage people in deep, compassionate listening, listen in. The details for the free films are provided during the show.

4/7/08 - Palestinian and Israeli Women's Peace Dialogues
Nitsan Gordon - Giles is the founder/director of Beyond Words, an organization that empowers Jews and Arabs to become advocates for coexistence and peace. She has expertise in dance/movement therapy, multi-level listening techniques, healing touch and deep emotional work and has led workshops and taught courses in Israel and the US. The Beyond Words program developed in Israel over the past 12 years uses an interdisciplinary approach specifically designed to help Arab and Jewish educators, parents and students heal the fears, mistrust, anger and other personal and communal wounds. Doug and Nitsan will talk about the development of the program as well as share stories about life changes experienced by the participants. Join us in our conversation about peacebuilding between Israelis and Arabs.

3/31/08 - Liberian Peacebuilder Kimmie Weeks
Kimmie Weeks has worked to alleviate poverty and human suffering in Africa and around the world since he was fourteen. At the age of nine he came face to face with civil war, human suffering, and death. At age eleven, he committed himself to creating a better world for children. Ever since, his life has been a journey toward fulfilling this commitment. Over the years, Weeks has formed partnerships and led organizations that have provided education to thousands of students in West Africa, lobbied the disarmament of child soldiers, and provided health care and recreation supplies to children. At 26 years old, Kimmie is a graduate of Amherst College and is now completing his Masters Degree. He will be entering his Ph.D. program this fall. Join us for an uplifting, powerful conversation about what one person can do to change our world.

3/24/08 - The Mississippi Mediation Project
Following Hurricane Katrina, Laurel Kaufer, Los Angeles mediator, founded the Mississippi Mediation Project to provide community conflict resolution programs to hard hit areas of Mississippi, strengthening their physical, cultural and economic renewal. Recognizing that this was an effort she couldn’t do alone, Laurel recruited a group of highly esteemed mediation professionals from private practice, universities, non-profits and government agencies across the United States to create, implement and support the programs of the Mississippi Mediation Project. The Mississippi Mediation Project is an example of the power of one person to effect transformative changes in our world. Listen in as Doug and Laurel talk about her work in Mississippi as a teacher, trainer, peacemaker, and peacebuilder.

3/17/08 - Hall Healy—Transforming the Korean DMZ from the Ecology of War to the Ecology Peace
The Korean De-Militarized Zone splits North and South Korea by a band of land that has been untouched by humankind for 53 years. During that time, nature has restored the DMZ to a pristine state of wilderness and has seen the resurgence of many endangered plant and animal species. What would happen if the DMZ were transformed from a symbol of war and strife to one of peace, sustainability, and ecological preservation? More importantly, what if preservation of the DMZ as a national park becomes part of the common ground that can resolve the many differences between the two Koreas? Hall Healy, vice-president of the DMZ Forum, has dedicated himself to making the Korean DMZ a symbol of hope, peace, and environmental beauty. Join us in a conversation about an amazing unsung project that could finally bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.

3/10/08 - Lynn Andrews-Medicine Woman
For the past 35 years, Lynn Andrews has had the great honor of working and studying with an extraordinary group of shaman women, many of them elders, from indigenous cultures all over the world. The spiritual teachings and shamanic life wisdom which they have imparted to her are ancient, rooted deeply in the power and nurturance of Mother Earth and the energies of the universe across many millenniums. She has written 19 books about her adventures, personal transformation and spiritual growth with these women,the 44 women of the Sisterhood of the Shields.Through her books and her center for shamanic studies, these women have chosen to bring their ancient wisdom into today’s world so that we may all work together to heal our planet and our own lives and restore harmony and joy to the world in which we live. Join us for a fascinating conversation about peace and shamanism in the 21st century.

3/3/08 - Peacebuilding in Liberia—The Work of J. Flomo Sawo
Liberia suffered from an intense and brutual civil war from 1989 to 2002. Today the country is rebuiliding slowly and largely due to the efforts of Liberian peacbuilders. My guest today is J. Flomo Sawo. Sawo received both traditional and Western education, graduating from ‘bush school’ and also earning a degree in agricultural science from Cuttington University. He taught high school until joining everyday gandhis in 2003. Sawo is currently Program Director for everyday gandhis in Liberia. Sawo works closely with traditional healers, dreamers and elders to closely follow rigorous traditional peacemaking practices, working with dreams, divinations and, when necessary, traveling village to village and into the bush carrying messages of peace and reconciliation. He also works closely with local government and colleagues in other communities.

2/25/08 - Facing Your Offender—Victim-Offender Mediation
Imagine that you receive a call one evening. Your sister has just been killed by a drunk driver. In the following weeks and months, you experience grief, rage, anger, frustration, and despair. The criminal system ignores you and your friends wonder why you cannot let go of your loss. Then, you decide you might wish to meet with the woman who killed your sister to talk about what happened and how to make things as right as possible, recognizing that this wrong is unrightable. A mediator will be present to create a safe space for the conversation to take place. What do you do? Marty Price is an internationally known pioneer in conflict resolution and restorative justice. He is the founding director of the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program Information & Resource Center, www.vorp.com. Marty has mediated drunk driving homicides, where victims and offenders come together to talk about what happened. He joins us today to talk about his passion and work in restorative justice.

2/18/08 - Fix Your Conflict!
My guest is Michael Strong, co-founder of FLOW and a pioneer in innovative education models. Michael brings an uncompromising idealistic vision for the world. His methods have been successful in developing underprivileged students as complex, thinking human beings and demonstrating the profound potential for human flourishing through innovation in educational practices. His non-profit organization, FLOW, Inc., is dedicated to the idea of Peace Through Commerce. Co-founded with the CEO of Whole Foods Markets, FLOW advances the idea that peace is more likely to emerge from economic freedom and a rule of law protecting property rights than from democracy. Tune to this fascinating discussion about conscious capitalism.

2/11/08 - Mediating Elder Care Disputes
Does your family face a conflict or fight over the care of an elderly father or mother or aunt or uncle? Perhaps you know of a family facing this kind of tough conflict? What about disputes with long term care facilities? Or hospitals? Or anyone taking care of an elderly person? Our guest today is Barbara Sunderland Manousso, a Houston Texas mediator specializing in elder cases. Barbara has been mediating cases since 1993 and elder care cases since 2000. She is an international authority on elder mediation and will help you fix your conflicts around the care of elderly people.

2/4/08 - Pamela S. Harper--Organizational Conflicts
Is you’re your organization in strategic gridlock? Is internal conflict within the management levels hamstringing organizational performance? Our guest today might help you sort through the soloutions to those problems. Pamela S. Harper is an internationally known business performance expert, author, and professional speaker. Pam graduated with honors from Northwestern University, majoring in Organizational Behavior. She is the president of Business Advancement Inc. (BAI), based in Glen Rock, NJ. Pam is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results (Cameo Publications, 2003).

1/28/08 - Janet Rubin Fields
What is the life of a professional mediator? How does a successful trial lawyer decide to change stripes and become a mediator? Our guest today is Janet Rubin Fields. Since beginning her dispute resolution practice in 1997, Janet Rubin Fields has successfully mediated and arbitrated thousands of disputes involving serious personal injury, employment, insurance coverage and bad faith, professional liability, contract, business, real estate and securities matters. Join us in a conversation about the practice of mediation in the 21st century.

1/21/08 - How Language Shapes the Way We Fight
“Them’s fighting words!” How we talk when we are angry shapes whether we will transform a fight into peaceful understanding and collaborative problem-solving or escalate it to all out war. Roger Ellerton, Ph.D., CMC has spent his career studying language and helping people renew their lives. He is the author of Live Your Dreams---Let Reality Catch Up and is a trainer, teacher, and NLP practitioner. Join Doug and Roger as they talk about the concepts of neuro-linguistic programming and give you plenty of useful tips on finding peace in your conflicts and fights.

January 14, 2008 Girls Gone Wild—Dealing With Crazies in Mediation

Mediation may not be confidential enough as far as Girls Gone Wild founder and auteur Joseph Francis is concerned. As a result of rather unusual conduct at a "confidential" mediation session, the 34-year-old Francis found himself first in court, compelled to disclose mediation communications, and then behind bars, an unwilling guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. My guest today is Los Angeles mediator Michael Young, who has studied the case and written about its implications in mediation. Michael Young is a mediator with Judicate West in Los Angeles focusing on the resolution of intellectual property and other complex business and commercial dispute and an adjunct professor of negotiations and mediation at the University of Southern California Law School in Los Angeles.

January 7, 2008 Mediating Evil, Terror and War--Kenneth Cloke

Kenneth Cloke, J.D., Ph.D., L.L.M. is well known in the mediation world as a thinker, philosopher, mentor, teacher, and master mediator. Ken is the Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Santa Monica, California and a mediator, arbitrator, consultant and trainer, specializing in resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing conflict resolution systems for organizations. He has written several books, but his most provocative is due out in April 2008 and is called Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism. Ken and Doug will talk about Ken’s new book, the 2008 elections, and Ken’s work as founder and president of Mediators Beyond Borders.

12/31/07 - Listening Others into Existence – Special Encore Presentation!
Do we really understand each other? Conflict may arise because we are not attuned to the frequencies that others around us speak. Even when we are trying hard to listen, our ears may not actually hear what others are saying. For example, the English speak in a frequency range of 10 to 1500 Hz, while the French do not even tune in until 2500Hz. In this fascinating interview with Billie M. Thompson, Ph.D., we will learn about the physiology of hearing and why listening is a learned skill. Billie will walk us through the theories and the practices that can make us more effective listeners and peacemakers.

Dr. Thompson trained with Dr. Tomatis, was the first US trainer for the Tomatis Method, the founding President of the International Association of Registered Certified Tomatis Consultants, and Editor of the first Ricochet Journal of Tomatis Method Research.

December 24, 2007 Dorit Cypis--Art and Artistry in Mediation

When we think of conflict, we rarely think of beauty, or artistry. Similarly, peacemaking and conflict transformation are rarely thought of in terms of art and artistry. But what if there was a profound relationship between art and peace? What if art could be used to transform conflict to peace? What would an artist trained as a peacemaker be like?

Ms. Cypis was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, emigrated to Canada and then to the United States. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art and Bachelor of Art in Education from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; her Masters of Fine Art, California Institute of the Arts, and her Masters Degree in Dispute Resolution from the Strauss Institute at the Pepperdine University School of Law. Join us in a conversation about how an artist turned into a mediator and how art gives us perspectives on our identities in conflicts that is unique and transformative.

December 17, 2007 Nan Waller Burnett, mediator and author of Calm in the Face of the Storm: Spiritual Daily Practice for Peacemakers.

How do peacemakers and mediators remain calm amidst the emotions, noise, and chaos of the fight. Those called to peacemaking have a hard time keeping cool under fire. Sometimes, staying calm in the storm takes as much energy and effort as helping those who are fighting. So what are the secret ways that peacemakers and mediators keep that calm, cool demeanor as the insults, shouting and general craziness of a fight swirls around them? My guest on this show is Nan Waller Burnett, who is an expert at teaching mediators and peacemakers how to be centered.

December 3, 10, 2007 Mark Tomback, Author of Spiriting Around: A Modern Guide to Finding Yourself

Teenagers! One of the greatest challenges of parenting! How do we teach values to those young people in the family who (1) think they know everything, (2) hate to be lectured to, and (3) are wired into their world? And how do we take on the challenging subject of spirituality with our teens without sounding like preachers? Mark Tomback, author of Spiriting Around: A Modern Guide to Finding Yourself, has some answers for us all. Mark has spent 35 years studying spirituality from many different perspectrives. His own challenging time as an abused teenager led him to write from his wisdom to guide teens through their tumultuous years. Join Mark and Doug for a conversation about values in the Information Age and teen spirituality.

November 26, 2007 Max Factor III -- Social Justice and Mediation

Our guest on this show is Max Factor III, Esq., a Malibu, California-based professional mediator. Max graduated from Harvard in 1966 and earned his law degree from Yale University Law School in 1969. While at Yale, he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Anthony J. Celebreeze at the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals from 1969 until 1971. Max was in public service for 9 years and private practice for 22 years before becoming a professional mediator. Max talks about his career in social justice and how his journey led him to becoming a professional mediator. Along the way, Max tells the story of his famous grandfather, Max Factor, and how the make-up industry was created in Hollywood. Join us in a fascinating conversation with a master mediator.

November 22, 2007 Smart on Crime—Restorative Justice and the Victim Offender Movement

The criminal justice system is bankrupting us with no appreciable increase in community safety or victim satisfaction. For example, in California, the cost to hold an 18 year old in state prison is greater than the annual cost to send her to Harvard University. More dollars are spent on crime than on education. One answer to this fiscal death spiral is restorative justice, a proven, victim-oriented, measured, and prudent response to crime. Today’s guest is a national and international leader in restorative justice, Barbara Raye. Ms. Raye is the executive director of the Victim Offender Mediation Association, the association of victim offender programs throughout the United States and the world. Join us in a conversation about restorative justice as smart on crime.

November 26, 2007 Max Factor III -- Social Justice and Mediation

November 22, 2007 Smart on Crime—Restorative Justice and the Victim Offender Movement

November 12, 2007 Lawyer Turned Peacemaker

This show is a simulcast of the Voice America radio show Positive Living with Patricia Raskin as Patricia interviews Doug Noll about his work as a lawyer turned peacemaker. Learn about Doug’s background and how he left a successful litigation practice to become a peacemaker and mediator. Doug’s journey from a lawyer to a peacemaker took him through a second degree black belt in Chinese martial arts to tai chi to training from the Mennonites. Through his process of transformation, Doug’s story shows how even the toughest, most aggressive people can learn and embody the art of peace. Listen to Doug describe how he developed his unique peacemaking techniques and processes based on a combination of his study of neuroscience and his interest in tai chi, subtle energy, and energetic healing. If you have conflicts right now, this interview will give you insight into Doug’s way of peace transformation—especially when people feel that there is no hope of resolution.

November 5, 2007 Listening and Leadership with Michael Maloney

My guest on this show is the Michael Maloney, business problem-solver and communication expert par excellence. Michael is reknowned in business circles for his ability to tell people the absolute truth about themselves while having them rolling in laughter. On our show, Michael and I will have a more serious conversation about his unique ability to listen and to communicate. As Michael says, talking is easy; listening is 100 times more difficult. Learn how Michael listens without thinking or analyzing. The point, he says, is not to turn off completely, but to only turn off our rational, analytical, judgmental processes. Only then can we truly begin to listen. Listening is only part of the equation, however. Michael will talk about communicating as well. His fundamental rules of communication will allow you to say anything to anyone anywhere, if you follow them. Tune in for a fascinating conversation with one of the brilliant communicators of our time.

October 29, 2007 Dealing with Difficult People at Work

All of us deal with difficult people at work. In this show, Doug brings his broad experience as a mediator and professional peacemaker to bear on the problem of those people who just tick you off. Is the drama-trauma king or queen or the narcissistic ego maniac; the borderline personality that loves you now, but will stab you in the back tomorrow or the anti-social, arrogrant SOB for whom rules are made to be broken? Whatever the type, you know what we are talking about. These people are challenging and aggravating to the extreme. Talking rationally doesn’t work with them and telling them to calm down just adds fuel to the fire. What are the two fundamental rules you must learn in dealing with these people? What are the three techniques that will work with all of these challenging people? Tune in and learn with Doug how to improve your skill as an everyday peacemaker.

October 22, 2007 The Resolutionary

Stewart Levine, The Resolutionary, is a lawyer who has devoted his professional career to constructive, collaborative resolution of conflicts. He improves productivity while saving the enormous cost of conflict. His innovative work with “Agreements for Results” and his “Resolutionary” conversational models are unique. Stewart is the author of two acclaimed books on his Resolutionary models including “Getting to Resolution” and “The Book of Agreements.” He uses his approach to form teams and joint ventures in a variety of situations. He works with individuals, couples, partners, small and large organizations of all kinds. His models for problem solving, collaboration and conflict resolution have been endorsed by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Stewart will talk with us about his work and his philosophy of life as The Resolutionary.

October 15, 2007 Cross Cultural Conflicts (Archive pending)

Diversity is often a cause of conflict at work and in our communities. Understanding how our cultural rules govern what we consider to be polite or insulting, how we display our emotions, and how we fight is therefore an impotant tool in fixing conflicts. Our guest, Gladis Benavides, principal consultant of Benevaideis Consultants, Inc, a cross-cultural consutling firm, is an adjunct faculty member in the Institute for Workforce Development and Institute of Diversity, Education and Leadership at the University of Wisconin, where she conducts management and develops diversity related seminars. She is a frequent a keynote speaker and offers workshops at national, regional and state professional conferences.

October 8, 2007 Everyday Gandhis--Bill Saa, Liberian Peacebuilder

Peace building occurs around the world in many formats. In this show, we will talk with Bill Saa of everydaygandhis.org Everydaygandhis engages in traditional grassroots peacemaking, relying on dreams, divination and dialogue among people and with the natural world and spirit realms. Its current focus is in Liberia, West Africa, where, after 14 years of civil war, peace is taking root.It works closely with community leaders and local government officials to catalyze the organic peacemaking momentum already present within the community. Bill Saa is a Liberian with deep and rich experience in peace and reconciliation. As Chief Trainer of the Trauma Healing, Reconciliation and Peace Building Program
of the Lutheran World Federation in Liberia between 1996 and 2001, he has supported peace and reconciliation in communities all over Liberia and among refugees in neighboring countries including Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote D’Ivoire.

October 1, 2007 Listening Others into Existence

Do we really understand each other? Conflict may arise because we are not attuned to the frequencies that others around us speak. Even when we are trying hard to listen, our ears may not actually hear what others are saying. For example, the English speak in a frequency range of 10 to 1500 Hz, while the French do not even tune in until 2500Hz. In this fascinating interview with Billie M. Thompson, Ph.D., we will learn about the physiology of hearing and why listening is a learned skill. Billie will walk us through the theories and the practices that can make us more effective listeners and peacemakers.
Dr. Thompson trained with Dr. Tomatis, was the first US trainer for the Tomatis Method, the founding President of the International Association of Registered Certified Tomatis Consultants, and Editor of the first Ricochet Journal of Tomatis Method Research.

September 24, 2007 Fighting in the Congregation

When church families fight, they really go after it. Pastor Jerry Iwerks, the church doctor, has made a career and a calling out of working with congregations in deep conflicts. Whatever the problem, Pastor Jerry is called to serve flocks that are often at each other’s throats. Listen how this fascinating peacemaker applies his arts and faith in some of the most contentious battlegrounds around—the Protestant Christian congregation.

September 17, 2007 Mediators Beyond Borders

Bob Creo is one of the founders of Mediators Without Borders. Mediators Without Borders™ partners with communities worldwide to prevent, resolve, and heal from conflict and war. Listen in and learn about this amazing global project and how its outreach can assist people everywhere in ending violence and creating sustainable peace.

September 10, 2007 Alissa Sears

When University of California San Diego graduate Alissa Sears heard of the ongoing civil war in northern Sri Lanka in 2002, she was determined to see what she could do to help, shocked that so few knew of the protracted conflict. She traveled with a group of Sri Lankan youth focused on running youth leadership camps and teacher training programs in the war-torn regions. She helped to coordinate and expand these programs focusing on community development and empowerment for three years, including the coordination of extensive tsunami relief efforts. This conversation demonstrates the power of one to change the world. Alissa is phenomenal--don't miss her!

September 3, 2007 Restoring thef Faith: Restorative Mediation in Clergy Sexual Abuse Cases

Doug’s guest will be Linda Harvey. Ms. Harvey is a certified mediator and executive director of the Restorative Justice Council on Sexual Misconduct In Faith Communities, a national panel of distinguished clergy, lawyers, victim advocates, and mediators providing mediation resources to churches and victim-survivors. Ms. Harvey has been a national advocate for restorative mediation of cases within the Catholic and Protestant churches involving sexual misconduct by clergy. She has mediated clergy abuse cases, lectured on the use of restorative mediation, and has written several important articles on restorative justice as applied to clergy sexual abuse.

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