In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini about what attracts people towards extremism, her work in peace building and violence prevention.References: ICAN: https://icanpeacework.org/ ; Paiman Trust: https://www.peaceinsight.org/en/organisations/paiman-alumni-trust-paiman/?location=pakistan&theme ; Deeyah Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeyah_Khan ; Ajmal Kasab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Kasab ; Among the believers: https://www.amongthebelieversfilm.com/ ; Andrew Tate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate ; UN Resolution 1325: https://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/wps/ ; Daughter of Persia: https://www.amazon.de/Daughter-Persia-Journey-Fathers-Revolution/dp/0307339742/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1CA5L7PDWGFPH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ty6lV-kgsRlIkMNdB0QV5sjcu7aMDhZ98YidBbfU9vJFT6yY4GiIQxCyEO9W3uncfFlskBTdwGx-S91piGvt_ajVetprCXjecY56K-3LR8tih2u_dWfOFBmY70iDAOxAihvlPCcZDDz6-WGP7IW7mg4M_QidKJyMtap_cCuAGGG84jMWlHC4u78RVrb-F3DLQTZnGtMi8wqTpSRui_iUGHwW3Jxsc-oGnFrYydtWX-Y.uAXHEeT9VQXlc3iJXLSY8yHBjmj1SwUubWaJ5tmahqo&dib_tag=se&keywords=daughter+of+persia&qid=1712135078&sprefix=daughter+of+persia%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1 ; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Cathy Mulligan about digital technologies and challenges in regulating them. References:DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure): https://www.undp.org/digital/digital-public-infrastructure ;Pope in a down jacket: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-puffer-jacket-fake-photos-deepfake-power-peril-of-ai/ ;Crowdfunding for Ukraine: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63121649 ;Continuum (Canadian series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series) ;Olaf Stapledon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon ;Last and First Men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men ;Starmaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Bogi Eliasen about different aspects of healthcare and the variety of challenges it currently faces.References:FarGen: https://www.fargen.fo/en ;Nordic Health 2030: http://nordichealth2030.org/ ;Movement Health 2030: https://www.movementhealth2030.com/fr Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Anasuya Sengupta about decolonising the Internet, hierarchy of knowledge systems and how all of it is interconnected. References:Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ;Thonas Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay;Jason Hickel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Hickel ;Aadhar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar ;Rising Democracies Network:  https://carnegieendowment.org/specialprojects/risingdemocraciesnetwork/ ;Sachsenhausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp ;Mariame Kaba: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariame_Kaba ; All our knowlege brings us near to our ignorance,All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,But nearness to death, no nearer to God.Where is the Life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuriesBring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.By TS Eliot in The Rock (1934) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Senem Aydın-Düzgit about modern day Turkey, President Erdoğan and Anti-Western sentiments.References: AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey);PYD (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Union_Party_(Syria);DİTİB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs;How Erdoğan rules through crisis? : https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-erdogan-rules-through-crisis/;Amitav Acharya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Acharya;Treaty of Sèvres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres;Richard von Weizsäcker Forum: https://www.robertboschacademy.de/en/richard-von-weizsaecker-forum-2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Ece Temelkuran and Doug Saunders about social cohesion, political polarisation in Germany and elsewhere. References:Königsteiner Schlüssel: https://www.gwk-bonn.de/en/themen/finanzierung-von-wissenschaft-und-forschung/koenigsteiner-schluessel ;Uwe Tellkamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Tellkamp ;Der Turm: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/uwe-tellkamp-der-turm-t-9783518461600 ;How to lose a country. The 7 steps from Democracy to Dictatorship. : https://www.amazon.de/How-Lose-Country-Ece-Temelkuran/dp/0008294011/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1697199364&sr=8-1 ;The Myth of the Muslim tide. Do immigrants threaten the West? : https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Muslim-Tide-Immigrants-Threaten/dp/0307951170 ;Petra Köpping : https://www.sms.sachsen.de/staatsministerin.html ;  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Kate Crawford about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on politics, society and the environment. References:Atlas of AI: https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-AI-Kate-Crawford/dp/0300209576 ;Cambridge Analytica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica ;EU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence?&at_campaign=20226-Digital&at_medium=Google_Ads&at_platform=Search&at_creation=RSA&at_goal=TR_G&at_advertiser=Webcomm&at_audience=ai%20legislation&at_topic=Artificial_intelligence_Act&at_location=DE&gclid=CjwKCAjw38SoBhB6EiwA8EQVLp2jgJig_SOoEmahWuJMFS5YatGjK4HfMefcFF5U-jDdE2nNghrNthoCEWwQAvD_BwE ;Lisa Feldman Barrett: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100619832930 ;Oppenheimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film) ;Knowing Machines: https://knowingmachines.org/ ;Trevor Paglen: https://paglen.studio/ ;ImageNet: https://www.image-net.org/ ;Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror ;Spawning AI: https://spawning.ai/;Laion 5: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/ ;  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Amy Sample Ward about non-profit technology and the role it can play in addressing societal inequalities.References: Nten: https://www.nten.org/;Postmodernism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism ;Postcolonialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire." Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Kamal Amakrane about climate emergency, its implications for the Atoll island nation states in the Pacific and what the global community needs to do.References: Rising Nations Initiative: https://climatemobility.org/rising-nations-initiative/; Call to action: https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/en/protection-pacific-islands-become-focus-germanys-foreign-climate-policy ; Richard von Weizsäcker Forum: https://www.robertboschacademy.de/en/richard-von-weizsaecker-forum-2022 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire." Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Constanze Stelzenmüller on how the Transatlantic relations have evolved over the past decades, the upcoming presidential elections in the United States of America as well as the dynamics of a changing world order.References:The Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans ;The Diplomat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diplomat_(American_TV_series) ;Richard Holbrooke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke ;Ted Lasso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lasso Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire." Henry Alt-Haaker speaks with Dennis Shirley, a professor for Education and Rana Dajani, a molecular biologist. The conversation focuses on various aspects of education, the interconnection between reading, identity and wellbeing.References:We Love reading: https://welovereading.org/ ;Sophie's World: https://www.amazon.de/Sophies-World-History-Philosophy-Classics/dp/0374530718 ;Not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself by Wallace Stevens: https://poets.org/poem/not-ideas-about-thing-thing-itself;The Rights of the Reader by Danielle Pinnock: https://www.amazon.de/Rights-Reader-Daniel-Pennac/dp/1406300918 ;Rio Grande by Gabriel DeLayne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rf_ycBMV-0 ; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with the highly popular foreign policy expert Fiona Hill from the United States. The conversation focuses on the impacts of post-industrialization on societies and the rise of populism across the world.There is nothing for you here. Finding opportunity in the 21st century. By Fiona Hill. https://www.amazon.de/There-Nothing-You-Here-Opportunity/dp/0358574315A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens: https://www.amazon.de/Christmas-Carol-Weihnachtsgeschichte-engl-Ausgabe/dp/0553212443Trump's Erbe(n): https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/trumps-erben-100.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of “Think, Debate, Inspire”, Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with the renowned economic policy expert and transparency and good governance activist Obiageli Ezekwesili from Nigeria. The conversation focuses on changing world order, challenges for democracies across Africa and last but not least, the recently concluced Nigerian elections.#FixPolitics Intiative: https://www.fixpolitics.org/School of Politics, Policy and Governance: https://thesppg.org/our-story/The Good State. On the principles of Democracy by A.C. Grayling : https://www.amazon.de/Good-State-Principles-Democracy/dp/1786077183 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of “Think, Debate, Inspire.” Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with the renowned political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann from Russia. The conversation focusses on domestic politics in Russia, taking a pulse of the Russian society and its impact on the ongoing war in Ukraine.References:Levada Center: https://www.levada.ru/en/2021/10/12/trust-in-public-institutions/Dedovshchina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DedovshchinaWatership Down by Richard Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_DownToy Story 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of “Think, Debate, Inspire”, Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with the renowned climate and human rights activist Kumi Naidoo from South Africa. The conversation focusses on the climate justice, successes and failures of the COP27 in Egypt as well as the need for a stronger global cooperation.YouTube link to Kumi’s favorite song “Stay Shining” by Riky Rick: https://youtu.be/lK9VujaDRJo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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