Limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH, can cause conflict in certain parts of the world and WASH facilities can become casualties in disputes. But WASH also has a role to play in peacekeeping, according to experts Kelly Ann Naylor, associate director of WASH at UNICEF, and Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East, who join Amruta and Rebecca in this episode. This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace, and...

Judge George McKinnis and his wife have lived in Bronxville, NY, for over 40 years. They have two grown sons. He served two tours of duty as an Infantry officer and is now retired from the US Army Reserves. He has performed various services for his community, from being legal counsel to the Zoning Board of Appeals to serve as Village Counsel on a pro bono basis for three consecutive Mayoral terms to becoming and serving for twenty-four years as the Chief Justice for the Bronxville Justice...

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the mental health of a generation of children. But the pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. The State of the World’s Children 2021 examines child, adolescent, and caregiver mental health. It focuses on risks and protective factors at critical moments in the life course and delves into the social determinants that shape mental health and well-being. It calls...

Climate Services for Resilient Development, By ANGELA SORIANO-QUEVEDO Angela is a climate change consultant at the World Bank, where she advises task team leaders in the East Asia and Pacific Region on climate change. In addition, she is authoring two country studies on hydrometeorological services for climate-resilient development in Mozambique and Jamaica.  She has also been an expert reviewer for the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, which assesses climate change's impacts, adaptation,...

Tatiana Androsov was born in a mining town in Belgium in the 1950s to parents who had fled the Soviet Union during World War II and who subsequently emigrated to America. She climbed out of Passaic, New Jersey, the daughter of immigrant factory workers, to the hallowed grounds of Mount Holyoke College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A child locked in all summer without anything but a typewriter, she blossomed. Understanding the true meaning of being thankful for a half-filled...

MICHAEL COLLINS is the executive director, AMERICAS- for INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS & PEACE. He develops working partnerships with Americas-based governments, civil society organizations, foundations, universities, businesses, and think tanks and seeks new opportunities to build IEP’s presence and impact throughout the Americas, with particular focus on expanding the use of IEP’s Positive Peace Framework as a training tool and an evidence-based metric for peace-centered...

What do funders want to see in your fundraiser proposal? Hear Cassandra Zawilski, Program Manager for Full Circle Fund, answer this question. Next step: Take our Introduction to Proposal Writing course to learn the do’s and don’ts of writing and submitting a project proposal to a foundation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/IntroPW ***************** This Podcast its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economic, as well as peace and conflict resolution.  We offer...

Presented by Cherlie Birker, the Program manager at California Botanic Garden. Brought to you by BC Global podcast its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economic, as well as peace and conflict resolution. 

Alex Edmans talks about the long-term impacts of social responsibility and challenges the idea that caring for society is at the expense of profit. Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (NYC). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton, where he was granted tenure and won 14...

Tackling Malnutrition Improves both Food and Health Systems During Covid-19? This is a Devex's report a media platform for the global development community and social enterprise.  Edited by BC Global podcast, its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, and peace and conflict resolution. We offer various inspirational discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness, and children's programs. All who desire to be a part of this work...

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Voter Suppression and Disproportionality in the American Electoral System, By Prof. Andy Winnick   Brought to you by BC Global podcast its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economic, as well as peace and conflict resolution.  Dr. Andy Winnick, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics, California State. He is the president of the American Institue progressive democracy, a non-partisan organization that promotes voter registration. his organization...

Meaningful Presentation by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs; " How Do We Make The International System Work Effectively To Solve The Problems?". He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.   Sachs serves as the Director of the...

This topic is discussed and debated by Nils von Heijne and guest Bill Mehleisen  In the everchanging world, we live in, questions about how, why, and what it means for individuals, organizations, and society as a whole are always raised. ***** This Podcast its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economic, as well as peace and conflict resolution.  We offer diverse music, discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health, women, and children...

A conversation conducted by Rotary Club of New York with Bill Mehleisen/Leadership in times of crises Bill is a director at Mandalah where he works on regenerative business design, Owner of Seek Human, LLC where he runs his independent leadership advisory and coaching practice, and Lead Facilitator / Leadership Coach for Arcadia Consulting an organization performance consultancy. He is also an angel investor and mentor in the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York. In each of...

Dr. Grill, a professor at Keck Graduate Institue (KGI), Dean of Research also teaches undergraduates at the Keck Science Department of The Claremont Colleges.  His lab’s research at KGI is focused on low-cost vaccines for developing countries. The primary collaborator for this effort is the Botswana Vaccine Institute in Gaborone, Botswana. The focus of these efforts has been to address animal diseases that are devastating to smallholder farmers in Africa. With the disastrous COVID-19...

Colin Coleman is the former chief executive officer of Sub-Saharan Africa for Goldman Sachs, and former head of the firm’s Johannesburg office.

Ms. Greene has been working in the field of victim services since 1974, beginning as a volunteer in a Rape Crisis Center. She is currently Manager of Victim Services and Human Trafficking at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and is manager of the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force. Elynne Greene is also a member of the Responders Support Team in Clark County and serves on the Survivors & Providers Stakeholders' Forum of the National Mass Violence and Victimization...

This podcast is brought to you as part of the Kroc Institute's Peace Accords Matrix Project, is providing real-time monitoring of the Colombian peace accord implementation process. The Barometer initiate team just released their fourth comprehensive report on the status of implementation, and discuss the report's main findings. Read the full report at peaceaccords.nd.edu/fourthreport. or visit us to listen to your favorite podcast at www.bcgfederation.org

 Ralph Kader joined the United Nations (UN) in 1980. Over the next two decades, he rose through the ranks alongside Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has served in diplomatic missions around the world with six United Nations Secretary-Generals: S-G Kurt Waldheim, S-G Javier Perez De Cuellar, S-G Boutros Boutros-Ghali, S-G Kofi Annan, S-G Ban Ki-Moon, and S-G Antonio Guterres. His missions included Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, and Morocco, among others. As such, he has developed personal...

Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is an American economist. He teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is chairman of Roubini Macro Associates LLC, an economic consultancy firm. The child of Iranian Jews, he was born in Turkey and grew up in Italy. After receiving a BA in political economics at Bocconi University, Milan and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University, he became an academic at Yale and a visiting researcher/advisor at the...