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Reimagining Our World

Sovaida Maani Ewing

This podcast is dedicated to creating a vision of a peaceful and secure world, grounded in justice and infusing the hope and confidence that we can make the principled choices necessary to attain it.

society & culture social sciences

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Episode 51 - Navigating Times of Turbulence by...

Reimagining Our World ·

2025/09/28

In times of perilous transition we often tell ourselves change is not possible or events are out of control and there is nothing we can do. In such times it helps to look to history for inspiration and as an aid to help us navigate the chaos. The story of two ordinary individuals—Raphael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht—shows how two men, deeply concerned with the needs of their time, separately made a conscious choice to bring about positive change and persevered until they succeeded against al...

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Episode 50 - New Logic for a Better World

Reimagining Our World ·

2025/07/15

As Peter Drucker so aptly stated in his book "Managing in Turbulent Times," the greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself but acting with yesterday's logic. In this episode of "Reimagining Our World," I will highlight and explore 10 new ways of thinking proposed by Stephen Heintz in his report "A Logic for the Future," that should be included as foundational assumptions upon which to build a better world.

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Episode 49 - How We Can Stem the Tide of War

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2025/06/03

Our world is unraveling at an accelerating pace. War and conflict are spreading like contagion, ravaging the face of the earth. Our efforts to stop the contagion have hitherto been ineffectual as we reach for the same outworn playbooks over and over again. And yet, we can and must act quickly to stop the contagion and the heartrending suffering it brings. It is time to understand and shed the habits that have held us back and take bold new steps and try new paths we have never considered befo...

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26:45

Episode 48 - Corrosive Habits that Breed Polarization

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2025/03/12

In this episode we’ll shed light a set of corrosive habits that breed polarization and propose some antidotes to them.

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Episode 47 - Overcoming Polarization

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2025/02/07

If you're disheartened by the deepening polarization in our world, wonder whether we can ever overcome it and where we might even begin, then this conversation is for you! Join me to explore a few practical things we can each do daily to build our individual and collective muscles for what seems like an impossibly heavy lift.

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ROW Episode 46 - The Emperor Still Has No Clothes

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/12/05

In this episode we examine the fact and ways in which the current global system for tackling climate change is broken, how our false optimism that it will somehow magically succeed has stopped us from considering viable, effective alternatives, and what those alternatives might be, particularly one that I'd like to propose, for a World Parliament.

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ROW Episode 45

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2024/10/29

In this episode, we're going to consider one significant respect in which we've been able to successfully reimagine and reform our electoral system in the United States. in the years since this country was born, demonstrating that further reforms are possible if we can muster the conviction that they are achievable and work tirelessly to achieve them.

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ROW Episode 44

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/31

In this episode we highlight some ideas from the works of Arnold Toynbee, the famous 20th century world historian, about the stark choice that humanity would face in the atomic age of either achieving political unification or committing mass suicide and his prediction that in in the face of an existential threat brought about by circumstances of our own making, humanity would turn on a dime and voluntarily adopt a limited world-state even though it would likely do so kicking and screaming.

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ROW Episode 43

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/31

In this episode we explore the need to replace the outworn belief that the ends justify the means with a new, more constructive belief that the means must be as worthy as the ends.

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ROW Episode 42

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/30

In this episode we discuss the challenge before us of reconceptualizing and reframing our concepts of power, authority, and leadership so that we can equip ourselves to elect leaders fit to address the pressing needs and challenges of our turbulent times.

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ROW Episode 41

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/29

In this episode we ask why peace seems so elusive and explore the suggestion that it could simply be that we are misdiagnosing the causes of conflict and also applying ineffectual remedies.

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ROW Episode 40

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/29

In this episode we explore the idea that globalization can essentially be understood as the tangible expression of humanity’s journey towards unity.

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ROW Episode 39

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/28

In this episode we explore some secrets to actualizing our potential, achieving success, and living a fulfilling and happy life.

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ROW Episode 38

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/28

In this episode we identify the deep flaws in our international nuclear non-proliferation regime and propose ways of fixing them thereby strengthening a key pillar of global peace and security.

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ROW Episode 37

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/27

In this episode we propose a series of steps the international community ought to take in order to eliminate boundary and territorial disputes as they often serve as triggers for violent conflict and lead to breaches of international peace.

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ROW Episode 36

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/26

In this episode we take some time to reflect on the insights to be gleaned from the near-death experiences of others as a means of reminding ourselves of what life is really all about and refocusing our energies on what truly matters.

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ROW Episode 35

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/26

In this episode we examine the need to take a principled approach to solving global challenges by identifying, agreeing upon, and methodically applying a set of shared global ethics or first principles. These principles should also be used as an indispensable underpinning for the institutions and processes we adopt as we build a peaceful and just world.

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ROW Episode 34

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/26

In this episode we explore the idea of pooling critical energy resources in the hands of a supranational high authority for energy as a way of solving a trifecta of global challenges namely: equitable energy distribution, climate change, and nuclear proliferation.

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ROW Episode 32

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/26

In this episode we delve into some less explored and often overlooked practical requirements for operationalizing the principle of justice in our lives.

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ROW Episode 31

Reimagining Our World ·

2024/08/25

In this episode I aim to raise awareness about ways in which a nation can avoid slipping into civil war by highlighting some important insights gleaned from the book “How Civil Wars Start” by Barbara Walter and offering reflections on them.

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