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Conversation with David Daokui Li, China's World View

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist David Daokui Li as they discuss Professor Li’s brilliant new book, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict. Listen in…

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Conversation with Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia

Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Orlando Figes, historian and author of The Crimean War: A History (2012) and his new book, The Story of Russia (2022), in a fascinating discussion of Russian history…

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Intangible cultural heritage in conflict-related emergency situations

This chapter addresses how intangible cultural heritage can contribute to restoring peace and security in conflict-related emergency situations. Through relevant examples, learners discover how…

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Intangible cultural heritage and preventing and solving disputes

This chapter reflects on how living heritage can help to prevent and resolve disputes. By way of diverse examples, learners see how communities have created over centuries highly elaborated systems…

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Conversation with Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

This conversation with Rashid Khalidi took place on March 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and the…

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Conversation with Martin Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon

This conversation with Martin Sherwin took place on January 28, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Sherwin's book Gambling with Armageddon and its fascinating…

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Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2020 Jun. 4

This live Q&A session took place on June 4, 2020, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of the protests…

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Overcoming Divisions in Society | Juan Manuel Santos

Professor Jeffrey Sachs and former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos have a lively conversation about overcoming divisions in society, learning to heal, and moving forward together after…

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Voices from the Field | Utak Chung, APCEIU

Mr. Utak Chung is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), under the auspices of UNESCO. The APCEIU works regionally and internationally to…

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Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2017 Apr. 14

Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions related to The Best Start in Life course. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Q&A | Jack Shonkoff | 2017 Apr. 18

Jack Shonkoff answers questions about early childhood development, including issues facing children who grow up in violent home environments. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Actions for a Lasting Peace: Lessons from Syria

Sustainable Development Goal 16 calls for peaceful and inclusive societies. Peace is at the center of sustainable development, and yet we have more than a dozen serious conflicts around the planet…

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Religion and Peacebuilding

"Religion--the sacred the notion of a deep reality that guides our lives--is an embedded reality. It affects how we think about sexuality and family and commerce and politics and education and…

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Climate Change and Health

This video addresses the impact of climate change on global public health. It looks at the direct effect climate change has on the spread of diseases, the impact of temperature rise on conflict and…

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Social Fragility, Conflict, and Mitigation

This chapter discusses how water and climate change are becoming drivers for social fragility, for conflict and for human migration.

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Law, Order and Conflict

This video is part of Module 2: What makes a city function? Learn about law, order and conflict, war and conflict all through the lens of historic examples. This video is licensed under the CC…

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