Bedi Racule is a nuclear and climate justice advocate from the Pacific - hailing from the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia).

Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of more than 250 civil society organizations working together to prevent digital dehumanization, build a better society, and overcome inequalities and systems of oppression through the creation of legally binding rules on autonomy in weapons systems.

In this episode we speak with Ramu Damodaran who is the first chief of the United Nations’s Academic Impact Initiative.

Ela Gandhi is the chairperson of the Gandhi Development Trust and Phoenix Settlement Trust, boardmember at the Metta Center for Nonviolence, and the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Listen to this episode where she speaks about the significance of International Day of Nonviolence, observed on 2 October every year to commemorate the birthday of her grandfather. She also discusses the potential that nonviolence has for the UN, and our collective responsibility to empower and strengthen the global institution.

Yehuda Silverman is a Cultural Exchange Assistant of the peacebuilding network, Acquaint, “a nonprofit platform where people around the world grow and learn through human connections.” He joins Uniting Nations to speak about peacebuilding, dialogue, and his hope and idealism for the United Nations as a peacebuilding entity through his participation in some of the UN’s key peacebuilding programs.

An interview with Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the UNHCR representative in Iraq about how their work overlaps with the duties and responsibilities of those working for a nonviolent world.

In this episode we speak with a retired scientist who was instrumental in the creation of the Seville Statement on Violence from 1986, which brought together scientists for UNESCO to refute the claims that underpin violence and war that we are predestined and genetically inclined toward violence and destruction as a species. David discusses this document as well as his work within the UN system for a Culture of Peace, including the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace

Meet Houry Geudelekian, the Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW), New York.

The NGO CSW is the convener of global civil society for the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and global gender equality advocacy.

The Zaporizhzhya Protection Project is endeavoring to help de-escalate potential nuclear disaster in Ukraine by training volunteers to support the UN’s efforts to ensure that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant remains undisturbed by the conflict.

On the second anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), Mary Yelenick from Pax Christi International joins us to discuss this treaty and nonviolence.