PBS Women, War & Peace Podcast

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Welcome to the podcast series for Women, War & Peace with our host, Amy Costello. Each week, Amy will be talking to people who have responded creatively to the plight of women living in conflict zones.

Women, War & Peace
is a bold new five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs and warlords using unconventional weapons. The series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Yet they are simultaneously emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict.

Women, War & Peace is a co-production of THIRTEEN and Fork Films and will premiere on local PBS stations Tuesday nights from Oct. 11 to Nov. 8, 2011.

Series


Pieces

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Imagine you’re an eldery woman from a small village in Bosnia. You’ve witnessed horrors most people could never even imagine, and you’ve been asked...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 1
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In Afghanistan, there are fears that the pending U.S. withdrawal of troops will leave a vacuum for the Taliban to regain control. This could have p...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
Caption: Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter congratulates Lt. j.g. Carolyn Bloomfield for earning her carrier qualifications during the Women in Aviation Conference.
Juggling work and motherhood is always hard, but imagine if you were an admiral in the Navy.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:01
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When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Pakistan.
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:09
Caption: A Moro rebel in Sultan Kudarat, Southern Philippines, on Feb. 19, 2008., Credit: Mark Navales
Annabelle Abaya, who has served as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines and founded The Conflict Resolution Group Found...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stella Sabiiti speaking on a panel in Austria in 2006., Credit: Frank Helmrich
Through the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, activist Stella Sabiiti works with rebels who inflict violence on civilians in conflict ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
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Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
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Professor Joshua Goldstein debunks the idea that biology hardwires men for fighting wars and women for staying on the sidelines on this week's podc...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:30