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How will the Election Impact Immigration?
Today’s guest will help us explore this question, as well as the current state of immigration in the US, the areas where both Democrats and Republicans are getting things wrong, and why increasing empathy is necessary to create change.
Jason De León is a Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA, Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, and the author of the award-winning book “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail”. His new book, “Soldiers and Kings”, is an in-depth look at the daily lives of smugglers moving migrants across the length of the Mexico. Find out more at jasonpatrickdeleon.com.
Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. The show is produced by Bridget Conley and Emily Shaw. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and social media by Kelsey Henquinet. Show artwork by Simon Fung.
Special thanks to Jeremy Helton, Lisa Avery, B. Arneson, Alex de Waal, and the team from the Tufts Digital Design Studio, including Kimberly Lynn Forero-Arnias, and Miles Donovan.
Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at worldpeacefoundation.org, and follow us on X at @worldpeacefdtn.
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What does Prison Abolition have to do with World Peace?
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What is prison abolition, and what does it have to do with world peace? Today’s guests help us dig into this question, tackle some common misconceptions about prison abolition, and hear what restorative justice looks like first-hand. Catherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College, whose research and activism addresses the intersecti...
Why Addressing the Climate Crisis will Increase Peace
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What if the inequalities and exploitation that are destroying the environment are also driving conflict? Today’s guests help us understand how preventing conflict and responding to the climate crisis actually go hand in hand: Tatiana Garavito Ibañez is a facilitator, organizer, and lifelong student dedicated to exploring the intersections of migration, race, and climate justice. She co-leads ca...
AI & Autonomous Weapons Today
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Are we already living in the sci fi future where weapons decide who to kill? In this conversation, we explore how AI and autonomous weapons are being used today, specifically in places like Ukraine and Gaza. Bridget speaks with two leaders in research and activism to find out why they’re concerned, and how we can regain hope. Laura Bruun is a Researcher in the Governance of Artificial Intellige...
The Arms Trade - Let's Talk About Big Weapons
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In this episode, we’re talking about big weapons: bombs and the weapon systems that convey them. We dive deep into the military industrial complex and explore what it will take to rein in both nuclear and conventional weapons on a global scale. Bridget speaks with two of the leading activists and researchers on nuclear and conventional weapons, respectively: Ray Acheson is a writer and organize...
We Thought We Solved World Peace
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When host Bridget Conley was a college student in the 90s, there was this air of optimism. It might sound crazy to say now, but she and her colleagues honestly believed they had solved world peace. In this first episode of Disrupting Peace, Bridget speaks with Yale law professor Sam Moyn and South African activist Mamello about what went wrong in the 90s, and what it would take to turn things a...
Alex de Waal keynote speech, "Famine:what's in a name?", Médecins Sans Frontières ‘Scientific Day’
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Alex de Waal presents the keynote speech, "Famine:what's in a name?", for Médecins Sans Frontières ‘Scientific Day', A Conference Without Borders | Thursday 16 May 2024 The MSF Scientific Days International conference is a platform for researchers, innovators, and advocates in humanitarian global health to come together to discuss and challenge research from within the sector. Learn more at msf...
Understanding Sudan's Famine
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Alex de Waal is a Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and is considered one of the foremost experts on famine and the Horn of Africa. In this video Professor de Waal shares insights into what famine in Sudan means, as the country faces nationwide famine today.
World Peace Foundation website introduction photo montage
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Visit our website at worldpeacefoundation.org.
Breaking Open Conversations on the Arms Trade
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(World Peace Foundation, October 26, 2023). Exploring four fascinating aspects of the arms trade: from greenwashing and corruption, to the over-reliance on weapons as security and the military industry’s hold over government.
Disappearing Worlds: interview with Stephenie Young
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In this video, WPF's Bridget Conley speaks with Stephenie Young, Professor of Comparative Ltierature at Salem State University and curator of a new photography show at Greg Cranna's Bridge Gallery in Cambridge, MA, that pairs the work of two photographers, Evgenia Arbugaeva and Natela Grigalashvili. The photographers are from two disparate post-Soviet sites, Tiksi in Siberia (Russia) and Adjara...
Interview with Armand Coleman of Transformational Prison Project
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WPF's Bridget Conley interview Armand Coleman, Director of the Transformational Prison Project. They discuss the development of restorative justice circles inside Massachusetts' prisons and how TPP is bringing that work to communities on the outside. Coleman also addresses his own journey with restorative practices and how they changed his life.
Selame Kidane book Lecture with presentation
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Eritrean activist, researcher, and psychotherapist, Selam Kidane, presents her newest book, "Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era: Development of the Trauma Recovery Understanding Self-Help Therapy (TRUST)". This book sheds light into the psychological impact entailed in refugee trajectories. With findings mainly from Eritrean refugee communities in multiple loc...
Engaging Youth in countering militarism
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Despite state commitments to upholding the protection of human rights and international humanitarian law, the outbreak of war or conflict has little or no restraining effect on US, UK, or French exports - even when blatant violations of human rights and humanitarian law are documented. This is the key finding of a series of three seminal reports published last month by the World Peace Foundatio...
Introduction to "Weaponized storytelling à la française" (English)
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In this English language video, Dr. Emma Soubrier provides an overview of her research report, "Weaponized storytelling à la française: Demystifying France’s narratives around its arms export policies." The report is part of the World Peace Foundation program, Defense Industries, Foreign Policy, and Armed Conflict." Learn more: sites.tufts.edu/wpf/defense-industries-foreign-policy-and-armed-con...
Introduction to: Weaponized Storytelling (French)
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Introduction to: Weaponized Storytelling (French)
Starving Tigray: Mass atrocity and humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia
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Starving Tigray: Mass atrocity and humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia
Stacey Borden Part 3
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Stacey Borden Part 3
Stacey Borden Part 2
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Stacey Borden Part 2
Stacey Borden part 1
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Stacey Borden part 1
Interview with Arthur Bembury
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Interview with Arthur Bembury
Interview with Xiaodon Liang
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Interview with Xiaodon Liang
Alex de Waal on violence in Sudan (al Jazeera)
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Alex de Waal on violence in Sudan (al Jazeera)
WPF Board Member Philip Khoury
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WPF Board Member Philip Khoury
WPF Board Member Jim Shannon
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WPF Board Member Jim Shannon
How Weapons Wound Democracy
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How Weapons Wound Democracy
Introducing the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption
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Introducing the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption
Britains missing memorial
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Britains missing memorial
Irish famine memorial
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Irish famine memorial
WPF Board Member Tom O'Reilly
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WPF Board Member Tom O'Reilly

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  • @EileenHall-j9f
    @EileenHall-j9f 6 місяців тому

    Some of us have the opportunity to elect this man for Parliament. What an absolute privilege it would be. Him or the treacherous warmonger Starmer. Vote Feinstein.

  • @bahreh.7807
    @bahreh.7807 6 місяців тому

    Three + years past. But the analysis by Prof. Alex de Wall is living document .

  • @tomcolley9008
    @tomcolley9008 7 місяців тому

    Incredibly interesting, thank you Professor De Waal

  • @FREEATLAST-7
    @FREEATLAST-7 Рік тому

    Thank You Stacey!!❤️🌹💋

  • @FREEATLAST-7
    @FREEATLAST-7 Рік тому

    This Us Great Stacey Love Brenda Keep Speaking!!!

  • @willwoychuk2902
    @willwoychuk2902 2 роки тому

    Famine has been reduced due to fossil fuel use. Thank you oil and gas.

  • @lauriepipkins5121
    @lauriepipkins5121 2 роки тому

    Thank you for doing this interview. It has brought great insight of what has been happening since MCI-Framingham stopped all the volunteers from in coming due to Covid 19. We have been praying for the ladies and the administration. We will continue to pray and hope that we can come back as volunteers. We miss meeting with the ladies. Keep up the great work, Ms. Stacey. :)

  • @lauriepipkins5121
    @lauriepipkins5121 2 роки тому

    I am so happy to know that the dream I and many others who have volunteered at MCI Framingham prayed to happen for many years. I hope to connect with you real soon. I know so many people that would love to help and support in whatever way we can. Kudos to you! God Bless You! :)

  • @IRGhost0
    @IRGhost0 3 роки тому

    why would you try to unlearn violence?

  • @selamtsegaye6265
    @selamtsegaye6265 3 роки тому

    Dr tewodros adihanom how much give you money for your all false propaganda political took no no shame on you his killer and his party tplf terrorist groups .see what happened all the world beacouse of him his corrupted his selfish his so so bad beacarefull for your self if you can

  • @selamtsegaye6265
    @selamtsegaye6265 3 роки тому

    If you can plz don't support tplf terrorist group stop amara genocide in Ethiopia oromo and tigray region. God bless my people's jest god no one with my people's

  • @selamtsegaye6265
    @selamtsegaye6265 3 роки тому

    No this information all false propaganda not tigray people's dead tigray tplf terrorist groups and ong oromo terrorist groups killed many amara people's more than women's and kids this reality tplf terrorist groups making genocide for amara people's and for Ethiopia military forces solger you know that but you are maby you getting money or you r corrrupted if you don't get the money ask the whole world reality you can cross check first still know whu dead in Ethiopia oromo region all amara people's why you are selfish like this shame on you. No one see my people's no one vote for amara kids pregnant women's old women's but God see truth just god

  • @adama2988
    @adama2988 3 роки тому

    TPLF WAS HIRED MORE WHITE MAFIA TO PROVIDE THEIR FALSE ALLEGATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD.. IF GENOCIDE ABD STARVATION HAPPENED IN ETHIOPIA HISTORY WAS OGADEN REGION GENOCIDE WHICH WESTERN NATIONS AIDED TPLF TO DO AND ONE CAN TALK.

  • @gerimagerima2637
    @gerimagerima2637 3 роки тому

    Dr. Abadi Girmay, sat for an interview with Fana, a government TV. The interview shows the grim reality of Tigray through the lens of agriculture. We present a full translation of the interview below. [00:00] As can be recalled from last year, there were locust invasions in many areas in Tigray that left farmers devastated. Right after this, the war broke out. To make things worse, the timing of the war overlapped with harvest time. It is known that more than 25% of the total production of Tigray was destroyed by the locust swarms. Moreover, what was left from the locust invasions was still scattered all over the farmlands without proper harvesting. What was left on the crop fields was burned and ruined due to different causes. Some of the crop fields were either appropriated or devastated. On the top of all of this, because of the war, many people have been displaced from their homes and lands. They couldn’t take their belongings, livestock and produce with them. [1:00] Therefore, what we are saying is, the farmers do not have grains for the coming season. Not even for crop growing purposes, let alone for daily consumption. The greater part of the population is displaced from their lands and homes, families are separated, and are scattered in diverse places and in camps set up by humanitarian agencies. Many killings have been recorded. They seized all the grains and produce from the farmers. Livestock, mainly oxen, were slaughtered and some were looted. In some places, thieves were even using pickup cars and trucks to steal the livestock of the peasants and farmers. When we look at this in general and in addition to the locust invasions the war has devastated the region entirely and famine is looming as well. [2:00] So what should we do? We can look into relief for the time being, but in the long run this is not the way out and this won’t last long. If life as usual is expected to continue, if the Tigrayans’ lives should continue we have to at least make up what we have lost last year due to the locust, we have to restart farming and agricultural activities and we have to harvest what we can. But the main question is that the farmers are not on their farm lands, their livestock has been looted and they have no crop grain. And if a farmer has no grain and livestock and cannot use his land to plough and cultivate, agricultural activities would be very difficult to restore. The million birr fund from last year reserved for locust swarm attack rehabilitation that we re-directed to the seed fund and purchased around 40 thousand quintals. We have also reached out to international organizations like the World Bank, European Union, FAO and other internal NGOs. [8:00] The good thing is they have the desire to help. We need both the desire and the aid. But the problem is the aid covers only 1% of the demand of our people. Agriculture, however, must start soon in order to save the life and soul of the people. The farmers also need to return to their cultivation with hope for this year and years to come. We need to start agriculture this season using all our resources. Currently, we have raised enough funds for 120 thousand quintal from various organizations. But Tigray needs 600 thousand quintal which demands around 24 billion birr. [9:00]Those that are most affected must be helped and we are doing all we can by shifting funds from other projects to seeds, fertilizers, and other inputs. We hope to get upto 120,000 Quintal and save our farmers. It is very difficult to recompense the loss of an oxen. It costs 25,000 to 30,000 birr, we don’t have money, and you can’t find an oxen to buy in Tigray at this time. So, what can we do? We need to find other alternatives to replace an Oxen. We have requested upto 350 million but we haven’t got any response yet. So what options do we have? [10:00] As much as possible, we are trying to find ways of ploughing using tractors in some of the tractor suitable parts of Tigray. We need to do that and start seedling as soon as possible. Accordingly, around Qola raya upto 6000 hectares, around Adigudem 1000 hectares, the most damaged hawzen about 1000 hectares, Axum surroundings 3000 hectares, and around Shires and surroundings about 4000 hectares. So in total if we can plough about 15,000 hectares twice and we will need 120 million birr for this. If we try our best, and the government takes responsibility, and this is ploughed we can at least have some yield and seeds for next year. Preparing the land is therefore very challenging. [11:00]So what can we do? As Tegaru, As Tigrayan that loves our country, this is not politics. Agriculture must start. So everyone must help the Tigrayan farmer be it monetarily or using their knowledge, in all that one can! All Tigrayan business people at home or abroad must support the Tigrayan farmer. Be it in terms of money or sharing tractors. If we can secure some funding we can even try to rent the tractors and plough the land. Otherwise, it will be very threatening. These are the steps we have taken so far. The other biggest problem is that, as I told you earlier, we don’t have the structure anymore upto Tabiya level. We don’t have any property. To restore this will need about 200 million and we don’t have that money. [12:00] So all our employees are saying that “this is our country and this is our people. We will walk on our feets to work even if we don’t have cars.” They are showing commitment. But to do this, we have security problems. The farmers also need to return to their farms, they need to feel the same to work on their land. Otherwise this will be difficult and the government needs to arrange that on its part. Our sector is preparing to do all that we can with our stakeholders. The other biggest problem is the rehabilitation work we have labored for 40 years and even received a global recognition for is reduced into nothing. All rehabilitated areas are being destroyed, trees cut, burned, and used for making charcoal. [13:00] We can’t save it. We fell from global recognition to now below zero. It might take us another 50 years to return to where we were.We were not even able to pay for guards, which is the least that we could do, and most seedling centers have been destroyed and their employees unpaid for the last 5 months. At least, to save what is left, we need to communicate with the community elders and other stakeholders.

  • @berhanekiross8010
    @berhanekiross8010 3 роки тому

    Thank you Fletcher School academia, thank you Alex de Waal, for your concerted effort.

  • @tesfuweldemikael2902
    @tesfuweldemikael2902 3 роки тому

    So correct.

  • @gebrehiwethagos5463
    @gebrehiwethagos5463 3 роки тому

    Must read : #AbiyAhmed's genocide policy "Unlike the case of Rwanda, Abiy’s strategy is a highly organized and well-designed genocide; that is, both in the nature of its intention meant to confuse the world and in its high level of coordination and efficiency." #TigrayGenocide t.co/poH6j42Kdk

  • @gebrehiwethagos5463
    @gebrehiwethagos5463 3 роки тому

    ‘Eritrea’s Pragmatic Terrorism in Tigray’ summarized in 8 big categories : 1. Massive looting. 2. Massacres. 3. Wanton destructions. 4. Irreverence. 5. Targeting the elite. 6. Mass rape. 7. Displacement. 8. Targeting refugee camps. #TigrayGenocide t.co/psZWuxBgV4

  • @gebrehiwethagos5463
    @gebrehiwethagos5463 3 роки тому

    "They set our crops on fire, then they started burning the homes,” said Gebru Habtom, a farmer in his 40s from the village of Debre Harmaz in Ethiopia. “Then they said they’d burn me next, so I fled for my life.” #TigrayGenocide #AbiyToICC #IssayasToICC t.co/SSuPYdcrPS

  • @gebrehiwethagos5463
    @gebrehiwethagos5463 3 роки тому

    Thank you for being an indispensable voice for the silenced people of Tigray.

  • @bh3855
    @bh3855 3 роки тому

    Heat breaking! What an embarrassing country Ethiopia has become!

  • @ibexethiopia7292
    @ibexethiopia7292 3 роки тому

    Alex de Waal mislead and misinformation the world by running world peace organization to cover up dictators by advising how to rule the poor countries long enough with no problem the out side world question them. Because they paid him enough money . for example in Ethiopia he helped TPLF dictator the last 27 years before the change was coming 3 years ago

  • @Bro-dr3ou
    @Bro-dr3ou 4 роки тому

    Hhhayi maan, We need a new uprising to remove this pathetic ANC government. This is not the South Africa Steve Biko, Chris Hanie and Moses Mabhida died for!

  • @joeruf6526
    @joeruf6526 4 роки тому

    Ha! The wasteland grows. Reasoning in the shadow of a mushroom cloud. What an embarrassment.

  • @tesfuweldemikael2902
    @tesfuweldemikael2902 5 років тому

    I particularly like the « zombie concept » sentence.

    • @tesfuweldemikael2902
      @tesfuweldemikael2902 4 роки тому

      @Aar Sare I am reading his book at the moment. There's a chapter entitled "Important Slayings of Malthus' Zombie". That in itself is one of the coolest chapter titles I have seen by a political scientist, and there are plenty of sentences that make perfect quotes... De Waal is a rare specimen in policital science, on a par with Jean-François Bayart whose paper "Africa in the World" is worth reading just for its opening sentences, let alone the argument. Fortunately, De Waal's articles can be found on The Conversation, African Arguments, and he wrote an excellent piece that's really worth its considerable length here: bostonreview.net/science-nature/alex-de-waal-new-pathogen-old-politics

  • @Rasha_lovesyou
    @Rasha_lovesyou 5 років тому

    #SudanCivilDisobedience

  • @dempsey2023
    @dempsey2023 5 років тому

    Philosophical Vaporwave @ 19:00

  • @aliajhaxhi932
    @aliajhaxhi932 6 років тому

    kosovo

  • @brianfreeman5880
    @brianfreeman5880 6 років тому

    Dan Dennett and Steven Pinker doing a talk together?! This should be great.

  • @waled324
    @waled324 6 років тому

    lovely event

  • @ylenolsreppeptgs
    @ylenolsreppeptgs 7 років тому

    I'm getting the impression that Dan Dennett doesn't even own a computer

    • @joncalder2477
      @joncalder2477 7 років тому

      sci-hub.bz/10.1038/scientificamerican0315-64

  • @artooWieldsSaber
    @artooWieldsSaber 8 років тому

    Loved it!

  • @SecretEyeSpot
    @SecretEyeSpot 8 років тому

    Was Dennets response to the black girl (I beg you to correct me if I'm wrong): "get your own government, order, and power.. then the current established order will trust and respect you, despite our history.." 😕

    • @Zayden.
      @Zayden. 8 років тому

      Both Pinker and Dennett are white 'western civilization' supremacists. They refuse to acknowledge the role of imperialism in the world today. They would rather blame the victim.

    • @SecretEyeSpot
      @SecretEyeSpot 8 років тому

      Fred Hampton's Ghost it's kinda hard not to be ethnocentric when you're the "intellectual representation" of the winning side, wouldn't you say?

    • @Zayden.
      @Zayden. 8 років тому

      well of course. They are desperately defending and protecting the privileges granted to them under capitalist imperialist global oppression. just blame the victim for not being 'enlightened' and privileged enough like them.

    • @SecretEyeSpot
      @SecretEyeSpot 8 років тому

      Fred Hampton's Ghost in a way you have to, because the fundamental bias of being an American citizen is that "All men are created equal" So the privileges granted to them by their *ability* to achieve life liberty and the right to property, makes them assume that all men are equal as they are in this respect.. Very naive, but it stops short of "White Guilt," so it should be expected..

    • @vaultsjan
      @vaultsjan 8 років тому

      Labes labels, no content.

  • @playloud90278
    @playloud90278 8 років тому

    1. The $1.5 trillion total program cost covers development/procurement/sustainment/etc out to the year 2070, when the last F-35 is scheduled to be retired. 2. If you canceled the F-35, most of the that cost (the 1.1 $trillion for operating and sustaining) would still be spent on maintaining the CURRENT fleet that the that F-35 is meant to replace. 3. The current fleet won't survive the battlefield of tomorrow. CURRENT high-end Russian equipment is more than a match for our best 4th generation planes.

  • @bme7491
    @bme7491 8 років тому

    Good grief, the host.......

  • @user34rL
    @user34rL 8 років тому

    What an unusual conversation

  • @stewartmoore5158
    @stewartmoore5158 9 років тому

    Everybody was quite irritating -- especially with the pointlessly long introduction and self-congratulations -- save for the guests themselves, mercifully.

  • @jeffreysegal2065
    @jeffreysegal2065 9 років тому

    More than 11 minutes in, still not a peep from the guests.

  • @HeyGuy4321
    @HeyGuy4321 9 років тому

    No the NRA is not a "religious org" it's an interest group for freedom..

  • @rlv4304
    @rlv4304 9 років тому

    Very interesting talk. I know both talk with the support of science and reasoned thought, but on their opinion regarding very recent modern war hardware lethality, what would they say about this? news.yahoo.com/former-u-drone-operators-strikes-feed-islamist-militancy-004131837.html;_ylt=AwrSbgKZOlVWq4gAsedXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw-- I wonder where the statistics for this topic can be found.

    • @vaultsjan
      @vaultsjan 8 років тому

      I would say that you need to think what are you comparing. If you compare guided munition vs nonguided, which one is more lethal (and would likely draw animosity towards bomber). Seems you are actually comparing guided bombs vs other methods to solve same problem.

  • @ivan.tucakov
    @ivan.tucakov 9 років тому

    Dear Dennett, I would love to hear your thoughts on how @31:48 the internet could go down? I have always understood the internet to be created by many single antennas that are built based on the memetic knowledge about the internet. It's the same for electricity. Neither electricity nor the internet can collapse as long as the memes about them are still evolved throughout nations. One guess is, that if it is based not on antennas but solely on all the satellites flying around, then a movie like Gravity could demonstrate a collapse like the one you are referring to. Many thanks! Love your work!

    • @TinyTurtie
      @TinyTurtie 9 років тому

      +Ivan Tucakov wtf are you talking about?

    • @ivan.tucakov
      @ivan.tucakov 9 років тому

      +TinyTurtie Hi, is there a specific thing that is unclear about what I wrote? Or is it the whole thing? To express it in short, my point is that just like electricity cannot collapse at the same time globally, neither can internet. It is not all connected to one same source that drives it, it is localized. From what I remember when I listened to this discussion, Dennett seemed to imply that this global internet collapse could happen overnight.

    • @danielschneider5804
      @danielschneider5804 8 років тому

      +Ivan Tucakov Maybe I can help out here a little. The Internet was desigend to be an indestructable means of communication and should in theory survive nuclear war (thats what it was designed to do). And to my best guess (I have studied Computer Sciences and Networking at the Technical University of Vienna) it would. But it would survive it at its core competence: a communications tool for the military. The physical network thats beneath the internet is working next to capacity nowadays. If a few backbone communication wires were physically destroyed the sheer mass of data could deadlock the whole system and make civilian use of the internet impossible.

    • @ivan.tucakov
      @ivan.tucakov 8 років тому

      +Daniel Schneider Thanks Daniel! That is really interesting. You're saying that there in fact are certain backbone internet communication wires that actually act as a "spine" to the "central nervous system' of the whole global internet?

    • @danielschneider5804
      @danielschneider5804 8 років тому

      +Ivan Tucakov Not exactly as critical or unique as a "spine" or "central nervous system" but to give an example there is limited number of cables going through the atlantic ocean because its expensive to lay them and maintain them. But the amount of data traveling between Europe and North America is immense. The problem is more the immense amount of data that we produce and communicate over the web then the scarcity of its infrastructure. Again the internet would survive pretty much no matter what but just as a tool for the military, the civilian usage depends on its ability to work at peak efficiency. And its this civilian usage to which Daniel Dennett refers.

  • @waylandporter1766
    @waylandporter1766 9 років тому

    Better education for parenting might be the key to lessen violence in the world rather than transferring responsibility to paternal deities...

  • @Jaymzmiller
    @Jaymzmiller 10 років тому

    Guy at 1:21:12 is like "Yeah, I'm bored of this guy's question too."

  • @thszntatst
    @thszntatst 10 років тому

    I have been making Dennett's point at 50:50 for the past forty years. Of course Eisenhower spoke about the institutional motivations of the military industrial complex on the basis of the financial gains, but career militarists will need serious aversion training to look to peaceful solutions to strategic threats.

    • @richardgates7479
      @richardgates7479 5 років тому

      Interesting how corporate interest was never even mentioned, and it's the primary driving force. How many students can you put through college with that money?

  • @deepgreendesign
    @deepgreendesign 10 років тому

    Excellent discussion! :)

  • @Bohewulf
    @Bohewulf 10 років тому

    I am glad to hear that Dennett is personally not afraid of violent religious extremists. If we consider what has already been happening in Europe this statement sound a bit naive.

  • @padrigowenjones
    @padrigowenjones 10 років тому

    Excellent panel. Awful curtains.

  • @ozhobanew6219
    @ozhobanew6219 10 років тому

    Fletcher grad student proclaims that masculinity was a "social construction." 1:10:08 Apparently they would let anybody into Fletcher, no matter how ignorant she is about the science of human nature.

  • @indef2def
    @indef2def 10 років тому

    God damn, this "host" loves to hear himself talk.