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This podcast exists because Kirk Brown had what Eric thinks was a very stupid idea, to start a podcast about foundation and nonprofit communications. Seven years later, they’re still at it.
Our guests today, Emily Shaw and Bridget Conley, started the podcast Disrupting Peace because Bridget had a very good idea: create a podcast to take on the question of why peace hasn’t worked, and find ways to address those challenges. Bridget is the research director at the World Peace Foundation. Emily is the crack producer who helped her build the show.
Organizations are always looking for new ways to use communications to advance their mission, and sooner or later the question comes up, “Should we start a podcast?” So this episode is for every foundation, nonprofit, consultant, or anyone else out there sitting on a podcast idea and wondering if it’s worth doing.
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Our guests and their work
- Disrupting Peace — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/ | Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disrupting-peace/id1759500826
- World Peace Foundation — https://worldpeacefoundation.org/
- Bridget Conley, host bio and research — https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/lessons-from-disrupting-peace/
- Emily Shaw — https://www.emilyshawcreates.com/ | Contact page Kirk mentions: https://www.emilyshawcreates.com/contact
- Emily’s case study on building Disrupting Peace, which covers a lot of what she describes in the interview — https://www.emilyshawcreates.com/work/disrupting-peace-world-peace-foundation
Episodes they mention by name
- “Why Listening is the First Step to Peace,” their most-listened episode — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/episode/why-listening-is-the-first-step-to-peace
- “Syria: How Do You Rebuild After a Dictator?” — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/episode/syria-how-do-you-rebuild-after-a-dictator
- “We Thought We Solved World Peace,” the first episode, with Sam Moyn — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/episode/we-thought-we-solved-world-peace
- “Gen Z is Taking Their First Steps onto the Political Stage” — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/episode/gen-z-is-taking-their-first-steps-onto-the-political-stage
- “First Steps to a Peaceful Childhood for All,” the children-in-conflict-zones one — https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm/episode/first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all
- Season 3 overview, the “first steps toward peace” season — https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/season-3-of-disrupting-peace-taking-the-first-steps-towards-peace/
The people and ideas they referenced
- Samuel Moyn, Yale — https://law.yale.edu/samuel-moyn | His book Humane, which is the “bombing for peace” material: https://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn/humane-how-the-united-states-abandoned-peace-and-reinvented-war/
- Generous listening, the scholar’s concept Bridget cites, is the framework behind Tufts’ Generous Listening and Dialogue Initiative — https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/generous-listening-and-dialogue-initiative-gladi/about
- Edwin Ginn and the 1910 founding — covered on the WPF site: https://worldpeacefoundation.org/
- The Fletcher School at Tufts — https://fletcher.tufts.edu/
Emily’s origin story
- Cozy Boat, the show recorded in the inflatable boat — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cozy-boat/id1403224776
- Justine Lucas, the singer-songwriter in the pilot — https://www.justinelucas.com
- Candy Ears, her ongoing personal project — https://www.emilyshawcreates.com/work/candy-ears
Last but not least, our sponsors!
- Prebys Foundation — https://www.prebysfdn.org/ | Stop and Talk with Grant Oliphant and Crystal Page — https://stopandtalkpodcast.com
- Break Fake Rules — https://stupski.org/break-fake-rules/
- Lumina Foundation — https://www.luminafoundation.org | Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Talent — https://www.luminafoundation.org/podcast/
