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Weekly series looking at the issues affecting the people of our planet

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Caption: Students study math at a cramschool in Kota, Rajasthan, India, Credit: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1
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John Wood left a lucrative position with Microsoft to start a charity that would bring schools and libraries to underprivileged kids in the develop...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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In response to international tests that show American students lagging, a number of programs supporting the study of science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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The Supreme Council of Education (SEC) wants to teach Qatari History as a mandatory subject in all the private schools in Qatar, starting from the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:33
Caption: Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria
Host Phalana Tiller talks about the future of Capitalism with participants at the 2012 Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna, Austria.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
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The majority of the Middle East currently faces a youth bulge, which many policy analysts have deemed as the single most important development prob...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
Caption: SENSE Negotiation Training, Credit: usip.org
A program about what's known as SENSE training to teach negotiation skills. The US Institute of Peace puts on these trainings for people seriously...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is The Midle East.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:03:49
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:07
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Petra Mislimerová
In Prague Petra Misimerová dedicates her time to making life better for kids who live in homes.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Sakae Nakamura at age 75., Credit: Ross Chambless
A story of language and chance meetings.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
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Conversation with the developers of the Global Peace Index which ranks over 150 nations on a matrix that suggests their peacefulness. Also the stor...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Irish flutist Mike Rafferty talks about learning flute playing from his father, as well as coming to America and returning to Irish music in his 50...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 26:37
Caption: Danya Mustafa in Palestine, Credit: Danya Mustafa
Generation Justice Alumni Danya Mustafa recently went to Occupied Palestine for 2 months. She spent some of her time with her class "UNM Palestine...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 19:01
Caption: Martti Ahtisaari, Credit: World Economic Forum
In this episode, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari from Finland. It's Peace Talks Radio, the series on Peacemaking and Nonviolent Con...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Martti Ahtisaari
In this episode, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari from Finland, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter and an interview with the ...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: US Institute of Peace Headquarters, Credit: USIP
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established in 1984 and funded by Congress to increase th...

Bought by WGDR and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Language and songwriting are bringing teenagers together from all over the world. The Young Writers and Leaders Program is the latest project from ...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, WMPG, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Odeh A. Muhawesh
On This edition of Culture Clique we visit with Odeh A. Muhawesh, a professor from the University of St. Thomas who specializes in theology and mod...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 34:53
Caption: James Embree
James Embree is a British stuntman that is a member of the British Stunt Register and the Taurus World Academy. A stuntman is typically a profess...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Some teachers are using a controversial tactic to get students reading: They're letting the kids themselves choose which books to read for class. D...

Bought by WCNP-FM, WRVO, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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American students are notoriously inept when it comes to knowing about the rest of the world. But the Asia Society is trying to change that.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 10:30
Caption: Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti
This time Peace Talks Radio considers two men – Greg Mortenson and Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti (Hah-ROH-Tay)- who firmly believe that the path to rel...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:03