Is this Scapegoating or is this Accountability? (Podcast Appearance)
Guest appearance on the One Question With Pastor Adam Podcast
Interviews and Podcast Appearances
Collaboration and conversations
Political Theology and Mimetic Theory (Podcast Appearance)
Guest appearance on the One Question With Pastor Adam Podcast
unRival Spaces: Loving Fluently with Joel Aguilar
In this episode of The unRival Spaces podcast, Lyle Enright sits down with unRival friend, collaborator, and board member Joel Aguilar. They discuss the role of spirituality in peacebuilding, the importance of discipline and fluency in love, and the challenges of navigating rivalry and violence. Joel shares his insights on sustaining hope and the power of friendship and family.
unRival Spaces: Genesis Stories with Suzanne Ross & Lyle Enright
In this episode of The unRival Spaces Podcast, get to know Suzanne Ross (unRival’s Executive Director) and Lyle Enright (unRival’s Research Director). Lyle and Suzanne discuss their Genesis stories and how they became involved in advocating for peace and justice. They explore the themes of violence, inclusivity, and the importance of art and storytelling in promoting peace. They also touch on the challenges of being in rivalry with others and the need to find hope...
Activism, Storytelling, and Burnout: A Conversation with Gareth Higgins
Gareth Higgins is a long-time friend of many at unRival, and took part in the inaugural cohort of our Artisans of Peace program. He is a gifted and engaging storyteller, immersed in Celtic spirituality and Irish culture, and trained for decades on the insights of cinema, literature, and the way stories shape our experience of reality. He is also an incisive scholar and peacebuilder.
Shimmers of Light in the Dark: An Interview with Andy Peterson
“My experience of life is that growth comes through pain. I hate that it seems to be the reality, but at least it’s been the reality for me. Anything I feel I ever needed to learn came through some trial, some fire.”I t’s a little surprising to hear such words come from someone who wears their joy so well. As I got to know him in the context of unRival’s Artisans of Peace program, I realized...
Peace Has Many Names: An Interview With Vera Grabe - unRival Network
One of the people who realized it very quickly was the commandant of M-19, Carlos Pizarro. He was a great warrior, he was a great military man, but he began to see a pattern where we were, in the Cauca. When the leader was there, the population liked us very much. But when we left, then came the army, and other groups that repressed them. They said, “We like you very much, but when you go, others come and they hurt us. They attack our houses and our people and our women.” That was one factor...
Street-Knowing: An Interview with Jude Nnorom
I learned it is easy to join the bandwagon and label people, to criticize their stories. But I need to listen to people’s stories to understand where they’re coming from. I need to allow even their silences to speak to me. So I’m learning a language of justice that is not aggressive. I’m not blaming people; I’m not saying, “Why are you rich? You are responsible for poverty in the world. ”But that’s my question: how can we develop new languages, new tools? How can we draw some form of learning...
Interview: Dong Jin Kim
A South Korean native, Jin holds a PhD in North Korean studies, and he is ISE Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His research lays out a method for Korean and Irish scholars to empower each other’s efforts and track their learning together as they work towards reconciling their respective homelands. Though fighting ended in 1953, North and South Korea are technically still at war. South Korea deploys many young men to the border as part of their...
The Promises of Open Wounds
Though many of Julijana’s stories grapple with violence, still more display the possibilities of peace. They are full of willing spirits who reach out into the precarity of conflict and do something truly astounding: “I met a Catholic guy who received a call from his [Serbian] Orthodox friend; ironically, her church was being bombed by the Serbian paramilitaries during the attacks on Osijek. The bell tower almost fell, and she didn’t know who to call. So she called this Catholic guy she’d met at...
My Brother, My Keeper
These memories include the violence of her alcoholic father, newly stalking her dreams like a ghost only she can see. “My fear was that my memory was all messed up and nobody in our family saw what I saw, didn’t remember certain things that I remembered. ”What she describes to me is a kind of existential disaster—like a sailor looking up at the sky and finding all the stars flung apart, the constellations unfamiliar and impossible to navigate. But in that blank, black sky, her older brother Tom e...
The Struggle of Beauty
During the agrarian reforms of the 1950s, the landowners of Guatemala sought to depose then-president Jacobo Árbenz and re-secure their interests. Despite Árbenz’s transparently capitalist ambitions, the dissenters took advantage of growing Cold War paranoia and sought the aid of the United States. The upper class appealed to the interests of the United Fruit Company, who in turn appealed—in 1948—to “the father of public relations,” Edward Bernays. Bernays believed in the power of high-profile “...
