{"podcast":{"title":"Disrupting Peace","slug":"disrupting-peace-6974186","podcast_index_feed_id":6974186,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/disrupting-peace/","website_url":"https://disrupting-peace.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/89449a4b-0ce1-4270-a58c-65de0509e1ab/UDNiZpAYYZRdNeQwdpwkIeEy.png","author":"World Peace Foundation","episode_count":38,"summary":"Disrupting Peace explores why peace hasn’t worked, and how it still could. In each episode, Bridget Conley, research director at the World Peace Foundation, speaks with a researcher specializing in one obstacle to peace, and an activist who’s changing systems from the ground up. Together they explore what worked, what didn’t, and why we shouldn’t give up.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T10:20:12.881480+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disrupting-peace-6974186"},"episode":{"title":"First Steps to a Peaceful Childhood for All","slug":"first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all","published_at":"2025-09-30T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disrupting-peace-6974186/first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disrupting-peace-6974186","url":"https://dev-tufts-flt-worldpeacefoundation.pantheonsite.io/first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c530d80-8c2f-4027-a74e-558267854842.mp3","summary":"How can we make the world a more peaceful place for children?  In this episode, we look at the impact that experiencing violence has on children…sometimes before they - or their parents - are even born. We’ll learn about how war impacts DNA over generations, explore resilience, and look at global and personal first steps that we can take to make things better for kids around the world. Catherine Panter-Brick is a Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University, and she has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications on global health and the social sciences. Her research focuses on children around the world in contexts of homelessness, displacement, and war. You can read the study Catherine referred to, “ Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees .\" Find out more about Catherine’s work here . Susan Bissell is a Visiting Scholar and Senior Fellow at the FXB Centre for Human Rights, T. Chan School of Public Health , Harvard University. Of Canadian origin, and now a dual citizen of Canada and the USA, Susan obtained her first two degrees from the University of Toronto, and her PhD in Public Health and Medical Anthropology from the University of Melbourne. A staunch advocate for the rights, safety, security, and protection of the world’s children, Susan’s association with the United Nations Children’s Fund spanned a thirty-year period. She served as UNICEF’s global lead on Child Protection, and was the founding director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. Susan’s postings with UNICEF, which encompassed Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India, the research centre in Florence Italy, and finally New York, infuse her work and publishing with a truly gl…","meta_description":"How can we make the world a more peaceful place for children? In this episode, we look at the impact that experiencing violence has on children…some…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2008,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disrupting-peace-6974186/episodes/first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disrupting-peace-6974186/first-steps-to-a-peaceful-childhood-for-all.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}