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Peace between people is rooted in the inner peace of individuals. In this podcast Smajo Bešo and Emlyn Pearce discuss their radically different childhood experiences of conflict and peace. At age seven Smajo was the target of genocide during the Bosnian war and spent nine months living under siege in Mostar, while Emlyn was the beneficiary of a fragile peace built upon apartheid South Africa’s racist systems of oppression. In examining their countries’ traumatic histories, and their own entw ...
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Smajo and Emlyn continue their discussion about leadership and in this episode focus on leadership within their own families and personal lives. As children living through conflicts, how did the adults influence them and lead them towards a particular understanding of these conflicts. What is their approach to leadership? What does a leader look li…
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In the mid-80s South Africa was an international pariah on the brink of civil war, while Yugoslavia was a leading member of the nonaligned movement and host of the Winter Olympics. Emlyn and Smajo discuss how one vital factor led the former to peace and the latter to genocide: leadership.
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Smajo and Emlyn continue their discussion about the radical ability of storytelling to transform those who tell stories and those who hear them, putting historical facts into emotional terms to supercharge peacemaking.
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