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Peace Is Here with Avis Kalfsbeek

Peace Is Here explores global peace light-hearted touch and a scholar’s heart. Join Avis Kalfsbeek, writer of environmental fiction, for a layperson"s curriculum of peace. She explores peace treaties, nature’s quiet wisdom, and the down-to-earth creativity required for #TheGreatDisarmament. From deep-dive series on peace heroes to fiction stories and personal riffs, Avis looks beneath the surface to see the peace that is already here.

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Ep 200 Peacewarts: Universal Understars 101 - The...

Peace Is Here with Avis Kalfsbeek ·

2026/01/17

Peacewarts: Universal Understars 101 - The Humility of the High View (Class 1) Episode Summary: We launch our first formal class of the semester by entering the Tower. We establish the vision of the "High View" and the "Stars-eye view" before examining the work of Jonathan Schell and Linus Pauling. We explore why the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty was a scientific necessity and introduce our shared commitment to the "Homework Pact." Learning topics: Jonathan Schell, Linus Pauling, 1963 Partial Test

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Epp 199 Peacewarts Orientation: The Peacewarts...

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2026/01/16

Peacewarts: Orientation – The Peacewarts Foundations Festival Today, we step onto the quad for the Peacewarts Foundations Festival. This is our "soft entry" into the curriculum—a day for breathing, gathering, and setting the cultural tone of the school. We move away from the high-speed "scrolling world" to embrace the "Deep Look," establishing the scholarly tools and ethical frameworks (like the CRAAP test) required for the work ahead. We also meet our first faculty members, who remind us that we

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6:17

Ep 198 Peacewarts Orientation: The Enrollment and The...

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2026/01/15

Peacewarts: Orientation – The Enrollment and The GroundsWelcome to Orientation. In this official orientation episode, we transition from theory to practice as we enroll in a new way of thinking about global conflict. We revisit the "Great Spell" of 1963 and conduct a high-level tour of the eight departments that form the Peacewarts curriculum. We define the "Syllabus of the Soul," establishing a roadmap for our year-long study of structural peace and our shared "Homework Pact"—a daily commitment to

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Ep 197 The Midnight Realization - A Personal Note...

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2026/01/14

The Midnight Realization – A Personal Note About PeacewartsWhat happens when the standard ways of talking about peace feel too heavy? In this personal note, Avis transitions from The Peace Experiments into a brand-new adventure for 2026: a peace school. After a bout of midnight insomnia, a new structural logic emerged: a way to study peace that is as rigorous as it is joyful. Welcome to Peacewarts. Resources & Links: Join the Curriculum: “Follow” the podcast as we launch into the first

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Ep 196 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 13...

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2026/01/13

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Pothole Broadcast In Chapter Thirteen, Kitty delivers one last broadcast from Midway. Using Doris the Pothole as both witness and metaphor, she reflects on what the hearing revealed and what it failed to fix. Peace, she reminds us, is not a grand declaration but an act of maintenance: noticing cracks, refusing denial, and telling the truth before the damage spreads. With Marzipan’s approval echoing through the room, Kitty closes Experiment Zero not with

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Ep 195 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 12...

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2026/01/12

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: New Files, The Pothole and the Protocol Chapter Twelve brings us back to Midway, where Kitty files the story that quietly changes everything. After the national hearing, a modest directive authorizes youth-led peace experiments—not because institutions believe in peace, but because they can no longer justify their fear of it. At her desk, with Marzipan keeping time, Kitty realizes her role has changed. She is no longer chasing the argument. She is witnessing

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Ep 194 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 11...

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2026/01/11

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Question from Osprey PointThe hearing resumes with more speeches, more caution, and less listening. While officials debate peace as an abstract risk, the youth delegation is sidelined—literally placed in overflow. When Garrett steps forward to ask a single, clear question, the room is forced to confront something it has carefully avoided: what happens if young people are allowed to test the assumptions adults keep defending. This episode marks the

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Ep 193 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 10...

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2026/01/10

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Hearing on Global Inertia Kitty travels to the capital to cover a high-level hearing on global disarmament. Inside a cavernous hotel ballroom, officials and defense contractors frame peace as a dangerous gamble and delay as responsibility. The youth delegation is present but constrained, allowed to speak just long enough to be thanked and ignored. As the hearing concludes, Kitty realizes the system is not failing by accident—it is working exactly as

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Ep 192 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 9...

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2026/01/09

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Midway Broadcast, Myths Debunked In a rare break from standard reporting, Kitty O’Compost goes live from the Beacon to name the myths that keep peace permanently postponed. With Marzipan providing emphatic fact-checks and Garrett’s voice cutting through the static, the broadcast reframes inevitability, fear, and scale as claims that can be tested rather than truths to be obeyed. This is the night the story stops circling the pothole and starts naming what

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Ep 191 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 8...

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2026/01/08

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 8 - Server Farms and Seed BanksKitty O’Compost follows a question out of town and into two very different systems. At the edge of Midway, she encounters the guarded logistics hub, sealed tight with jargon and authorization. Downriver, she visits the Midway Community Seed Bank, where knowledge, resilience, and future harvests are shared freely. Between the two, Kitty begins to see the real conflict taking shape—not over weapons alone, but over who controls

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Ep 190 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 7...

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2026/01/07

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 7 - No Gates in the GardenToday’s chapter takes us out of meetings and into the soil. Kitty visits a place where ideas don’t argue. They decompose, rest, and come back changed. If you’ve ever wondered whether peace has a practice, not just a policy, this chapter begins to answer that question. Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments

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Ep 189 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 6...

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2026/01/06

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 6 - The Science of Skepticism, Scarcity EditionKitty O’Compost visits Room 213 at Osprey Point High School, where skepticism is treated not as an attitude but as a scientific discipline. Under the guidance of Ms. Finch, students are running live experiments on the stories adults tell about competition, fear, and scarcity. At the center of the lab is a single slice of cafeteria pizza, framed as a scarce resource and then deliberately removed from

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Ep 188 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 5...

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2026/01/05

Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 5 - Arguments Against Peace, Interview Day Kitty O’Compost spends a single morning gathering the most common objections to peace, beginning with a defense contractor’s carefully rehearsed fears and ending in a public school science lab where those fears are treated as testable claims rather than permanent truths. As corporate language leans on economic anxiety, innovation myths, and national identity, a science teacher and her students respond with

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Ep 187 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 4...

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2026/01/04

Experiment Zero – The Peace Experiments: Ch 4 - The Leak: Protocol of PostponementIn this chapter, Kitty receives an unexpected document that reveals how close the world is to disarmament and how far it remains from choosing it. What appears to be a serious plan for peace is revealed instead as a ritual of postponement, built from charts, committees, and comfort thresholds. As Kitty reads deeper, the real obstacle becomes clear. The technology is ready, the safeguards are complete, and the systems

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Ep 186 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 3...

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2026/01/03

Experiment Zero – The Peace Experiments: Ch 3 - Scratch-Fact-Check, The Global Pothole A routine local story takes an unexpected turn when Kitty O’Compost realizes her reporting has begun to attract attention far beyond Midway. What started as a single pothole on County Route 12 now sits at the center of a widening web of polite warnings, unfamiliar acronyms, and unusually interested observers. As Marzipan delivers increasingly emphatic scratch-fact-checks, Kitty begins to name the pattern emerging

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Ep 185 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 2...

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2026/01/02

Experiment Zero – The Peace Experiments: Ch 2 - The Council Meeting of Unwanted AttendanceKitty O’Compost arrives at a so-called informational meeting in the Old Gym, where folding chairs, fluorescent lights, and carefully chosen language are meant to keep the public at a comfortable distance. Joined by Marzipan and an unexpected student attendee, Kitty listens as officials explain a new facility using jargon that seems designed to obscure more than it reveals. As terms slip, silences stretch, and

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Ep 184 Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 1...

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2026/01/01

Experiment Zero – The Peace Experiments: Ch 1 - Goats, Potholes, and ServersChapter One introduces Kitty O’Compost, a small-town reporter easing into an ordinary assignment in Midway, armed with a notebook, a sense of humor, and a highly observant goat named Marzipan. What begins as a routine walk toward town—past murals, potholes, and familiar civic neglect—takes an unexpected turn at the edge of a newly built facility that doesn’t quite belong. This opening chapter sets the tone for The Peace

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Ep 183 The Tip of the Peaceberg: Reflections on 2025...

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2025/12/31

This year-end episode offers a moment to pause and take stock. Avis reflects on the work of Peace is Here in 2025, the questions that shaped the podcast, and what it has meant to study peace seriously in a world still organized around war.The episode looks back on a year of daily practice through series such as Wolff Peace, The Great Disfarmament and The Great Disarmament, Architects of Enough, and the introduction of The Next Peacelands. It also marks personal and creative milestones, including

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Ep 182 Kitty Reads Holiday Lit for Peace: Edith...

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2025/12/30

Kitty Reads Lit for Peace: Edith Wharton – 12/30/25 (The ’Seventies) plus The Next PeacelandsThis episode features a New Year’s-season reading from Edith Wharton’s story “New Year’s Day — The ’Seventies,” part of her 1924 collection Old New York. In this piece, Wharton examines memory, reputation, and the quiet consequences of a life lived under the watchful eye of society. Kitty reads a short excerpt that brings out Wharton’s signature blend of precision, empathy, and moral insight. Kitty

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Ep 181 Kitty Reads Holiday Lit for Peace: Henry David...

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2025/12/29

Kitty Reads Lit for Peace: Henry David Thoreau – A Winter Walk plus The Next Peacelands This episode features a reflective reading from Henry David Thoreau’s 1843 essay A Winter Walk—a quiet meditation on landscape, attention, and the moral clarity that comes from observing nature with patience. Kitty reads a short excerpt that highlights Thoreau’s deliberate pace and his belief that paying attention is its own form of ethical living. Kitty O’Compost continues warming up her reporter voice for the

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