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Peace is Here Podcast

Peace Is Here explores global peace light-hearted touch and a scholar’s heart. Join Avis Kalfsbeek, writer of environmental fiction, for a layperson's curriculum of peace. She explores peace treaties, nature’s quiet wisdom, and the down-to-earth creativity required for #TheGreatDisarmament. From deep-dive series on peace heroes to fiction stories and personal riffs, Avis looks beneath the surface to see the peace that is already here.

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Welcome to Peacewarts!

Welcome to Peacewarts. Short peace classes because we are all scholars of peace. Orientation starts episode 198, a Festival in episode 199, and classes start in episode 200. Or, click Listen below to go to the current episode.


Short daily episodes. A slow practice for a more peaceful world. 


Listen wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Spotify and YouTube.


Universal Understars 101: This department explores geopolitics, systems thinking, and the humility of a high-level planetary view. It focuses on global security literacy to prevent provincialism masquerading as principle.

Living Roots 101: This department centers on food systems, repair culture, and local community sustainability. It teaches peace as a slow, grounded practice to prevent extraction masquerading as peace.

Chronicled Courage 101: This department reframes history through the documentation of persistent non-violent movements and systemic refusal. It recovers histories of courageous actions to prevent erasure masquerading as realism.

Resonant Charms 101: This department studies language choices, rhetoric, and modern media propaganda literacy. It focuses on public communication mechanics to prevent manipulation masquerading as consensus.

Social Chemistry 101: This department explores empathy, nervous system regulation, and deep human connection. It examines interpersonal dynamics to prevent isolation masquerading as independence.

Morphological Peace 101: This department focuses on active structural design and institutional reform. It trains scholars to modify outdated systemic architectures to prevent stagnation masquerading as stability.

Biomimic Defense 101: This department translates the nonviolent defense strategies of nature—such as aposematism, acoustic networks, and symbiotic guarding—into decentralized human social architectures. It teaches living systems protection to prevent centralized weapons systems masquerading as security.

Kinetic Peace 101: This department focuses on physical de-escalation protocols and moving from theory to immediate direct action. It transitions scholars into systemic community engagement to prevent passivity masquerading as patience.

Bullet Poof Bulletins (Episodes 249 to 279)

Bullet Poof Bulletins is a 30-day satirical podcast series hosted by fictional character Kitty O’Compost during National Gun Violence Awareness Month. Broadcasting from the Spoke-Easy Community Forge and Maker Space, Kitty brings daily reports from a world where communities turn steel into bicycles and imagination into action. Inspired by Bullet Poof, the fiction novella about a small town that turns guns into bicycles.