'Is the World on Fire?' is a podcast made by students, alumni, faculty, and staff at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. Our conversations are driven by a single question… Is the world on fire?
Everywhere you go, you can feel and see an endless amount of challenges burning around the world. Because of this, we decided to interview peacebuilders, social innovators, experts, academics, and other people fighting against these challenges, pushing for more peaceful and just societies. The experts and activists featured in season 1 include Kroc School professors Sarah Federman (Ph.D.) and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (Ph.D.), alumni Tabitha Nakholi (MA) '21 and John Patterson (MA) '13, and current MS in Conflict Management and Resolution student Mathew Holloway.Is the World on Fire?, a podcast in production by the Kroc School, is available to listen to on Spotify above, or by searching for our show wherever you listen to podcasts.
About the Author
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (Kroc IPJ) launched in 2001 with a vision of active peacebuilding. In 2007, the Kroc IPJ became part of the newly established Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, a global hub for peacebuilding and social innovation. The core of the Kroc IPJ mission is to co-create learning with peacemakers — learning that is deeply grounded in the lived experience of peacemakers around the world, that is made rigorous by our place within a university ecosystem and that is immediately and practically applied by peacemakers to end cycles of violence.