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The Rip CurrentAn Expert in Violence Explains the Path to Peace (with Lord John Alderdice)When I was writing my book The Loop, I was looking for experts in the ways we misunderstand one another, and several people pointed me at this week’s guest. He and I had an hourlong phone conversation, and while he undoubtedly doesn’t remember it (but is too polite to say so), for me it was a deeply formative experience.The Rip Current is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Lord John Alderdice grew up the son of an I...2025-06-111h 04
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS11-Ep5: The Accidental Peacemaker: How Philanthropist Steve Killelea Pursues Peace in a Complex WorldGuests: Mike Hardy, ILA Board Chair, & Steve Killelea, Founder of Institute for Economics & Peace
It happened unintentionally, as if by accident: working in Africa, philanthropist Steve Killelea realized economics and peace are deeply intertwined.
Applying the business and leadership acumen that built his fortune in tech, Steve developed his eight pillars for positive peace. These pillars not only predict the fortunes of nations and quality of people’s lives, but hold leadership mindsets we can all adapt to bring similar stability to our own organizations.
Here's what Steve, Mike Hardy, and hos...2025-03-0434 min
The Rundown by PoliticsHomeWill the 'special relationship' stay special?With the Prime Minister in Washington this week the Labour MPs Steve Yemm and Chris Evans, as well as Professor Sam Edwards from Loughborough University, and Lord John Alderdice, Liberal Democrat peer, join host Alain Tolhurst to look at the so-called ‘special relationship’. From its history, to why the close bilateral partnership between the UK and America is so enduring, but why it might now be under threat as Keir Starmer tries to deal with the Donald Trump White House. Elsewhere in the episode Katie Perrior, Downing Street director of communications under Theresa May, also talks about what is was...2025-02-2839 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS4-Ep7: 11 Steps to Help You Heal Divides from the Centre for Peace & SecurityGuest: Mike Hardy, founder & former director, Coventry University’s Centre for Peace & Security
Is peace relevant to business?
Absolutely, according to Mike Hardy. Profits and stability arise from peacefulness, yet we relegate its pursuit to nonprofit and government leaders. In this episode, Mike shares both his research and diplomatic experience to show how leaders in all sectors can create, and benefit from, peace and security in their communities and around the globe.
Here's what Mike and Maureen cover:
Why you have just as much of a leadership role in fostering pea...2024-12-1739 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS10-Ep38: The Three Steps for Successful Negotiation from a Former Ford ExecGuest: Greg Moran, Former Ford Senior Executive
How do you negotiate the best deal possible?
Our guest, Greg Moran, shares the three key elements he discovered negotiating for Ford and other top corporations. The ultimate success, he found, came when both parties found great benefit in the results.
Here's what Greg and Maureen cover:
Why going for the win is less important than finding the win-win;
Why the other party isn’t the enemy – it’s something else entirely; and
Why the other side tries to instill a sense of fear in...2024-12-0319 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS2-Ep49: Africa’s EU Ambassador Redefines Leadership: How You Have Global ImpactGuests: Cynthia Cherrey, CEO of the International Leadership Association, & Ajay Bramdeo, African Union Ambassador to the EU
This classic episode, revisited, focuses on global challenges. Migration – legal and illegal – is just one major issue haunting the globe. As the world faces this, climate change, and other international challenges, what can you do?
Plenty, as we learn in this episode! ILA CEO Cynthia Cherrey opens the conversation by discussing the frameworks and forum for the new leadership needed to develop solutions which the Association’s annual global conference provides. Then Ambassador Ajay Bramdeo steps in to point...2024-10-0826 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS4-Ep2: Former Prime Minister Papandreou’s Path to a Just WorldGuests: George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, & Jorrit Volkers, Dean of Deloitte University EMEA
Can you change the world? Our two guests have been doing it for years.
In the first half of this episode, former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou dives deep into defending democracy – and how the European Union has evolved into a model of independent nations resolving differences to band together for the common good.
Then, Deloitte’s Jorrit Volkers unveils the reasons he cofounded the company’s own university, as it gains renown for deve...2024-08-2739 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS10-Ep29: Let's Talk - Four Steps to Bridging Workplace, Political, and Family DisagreementsGuest: Michael Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development & Leadership Consultant
They say talk is cheap, but not listening can be very expensive. Yet many leaders don’t listen to their teams, especially in today’s climate of disagreements and divisiveness. So how can you have these difficult conversations, and keep your team running smoothly?
Our guest, Mike Morrow-Fox, has the answer: conversational receptiveness. It’s a four step technique that moves the needle on workplace dialogue, so the leader hears important information, and the speaker knows their voice has been heard and respected. Mike gives the details...2024-08-2036 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS8-Ep7: Empathy, Dialogue, & a Good Mood: An Ambassador Reveals What Leaders Need in CrisisGuests: Ambassador Thomas Greminger & Peter Cunningham (Geneva Center for Security Policy)
War in Ukraine and Gaza. Disunity on climate change. Human trafficking. Water shortages.
The list of international crises is growing. So where is the leadership to solve these global crises?
It seems sadly lacking, but the qualities for this new kind of leader are well studied and defined at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). In this episode, GCSP's Ambassador Thomas Greminger and Peter Cunningham reveal their organisation's mission, the state of global leadership today, and the type of leadership it wil...2024-08-1347 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS5-Ep12: Reflecting on Leadership & Peace-BuildingGuest: Mike Hardy
Leading the world into peace is so monumentally difficult, it’s never been done (Rome’s propaganda about the Pax Romana aside!). But understanding how leaders have brought regional peace, and ends to war, has been done – and more than worthy of study.
Guest Mike Hardy founded the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. He’s also the board chair of the International Leadership Association. Mike with host Maureen Metcalf about the importance of uncovering the ways leaders bring about peace – and the roles both organizations play in that. Then...2023-12-1140 min
Podcasty Teologii PolitycznejJP2Lecture / George Weigel: John Paul II, the Priority of Culture, and the Contemporary Culture WarsOn Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, at 4:30 PM (CET) we invite you to a lecture by George Weigel (EPPC). The lecture titled “John Paul II, the Priority of Culture, and the Contemporary Culture Wars” will be held in Aula 11 at the Angelicum.
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The lecture will explore John Paul II’s teaching on the priority of culture in the free and virtuous society of the future, as he outlined that notion in Centesimus Annus. This teaching will then be the prism through which to analyze today’s contemporary Western “culture wars” and the best means to engage those contests.
George Weigel – American Catholic philo...2023-11-291h 42
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS9-Ep48: A Genocide Survivor's Path to Leadership - How One Man Turned Trauma into Passion for PeaceGuests: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa & Mike Hardy
Seeing your family members tortured and murdered will have a major influence on your leadership mindset. But not necessarily in the ways that you think.
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa survived the Rwandan genocide as a child. Growing up, he thought of vengeance and retribution. But after encountering exceptional kindness, his mindset shifted – and he now leads efforts for peace and reconciliation. As he reveals his gripping story, Mike Hardy joins the conversation to discuss his friendship with Hyppolite, and his own work in pointing leaders to peace.
Here's wha...2023-11-1534 min
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS5-Ep4: Evidence-Based Best Practices for Leadership DevelopmentGuests: Gama Perruci, Sadhana Warty Hall & Karen Ford
Are you spending a hefty budget on leadership training, and wondering if it’s worth it?
You’re far from alone. According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 billion on leadership-based curriculum…and many wonder about the results. McKinsey reports "There is no silver bullet for successfully developing leaders—more than 40 key actions must be taken to increase chances of success to 80 percent."
So how do you boost your chances, and make the most of your investment? Our gues...2023-11-1343 minPodcasty Teologii PolitycznejJP2 Lectures // Fr. Jarosław Kupczak OP: „The Church and Culture after the Second Vatican Council”On Friday October 20th, 2023, at 4:30 PM (CET) we invite you to a lecture by Fr. Jarosław Kupczak O.P. The lecture titled „Church and culture after the Second Vatican Council” will be held in Aula 11 at the Angelicum (Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Rome), and will inaugurate the 2023-24 JP2 Lectures series.
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Jarosław Kupczak O.P. is a Polish Dominican and theologian, one of the world's leading experts on the Christian anthropology of John Paul II. He is a lecturer at the Angelicum, as wel as at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, where he heads the Depart...2023-10-271h 20Podcasty Teologii PolitycznejJP2 Lectures // Fr. Jarosław Kupczak OP: „The Church and Culture after the Second Vatican Council”On Friday October 20th, 2023, at 4:30 PM (CET) we invite you to a lecture by Fr. Jarosław Kupczak O.P. The lecture titled „Church and culture after the Second Vatican Council” will be held in Aula 11 at the Angelicum (Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Rome), and will inaugurate the 2023-24 JP2 Lectures series.
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Jarosław Kupczak O.P. is a Polish Dominican and theologian, one of the world's leading experts on the Christian anthropology of John Paul II. He is a lecturer at the Angelicum, as wel as at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, where he heads the Depart...2023-10-241h 40
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS8-Ep6: Work, War, and In-Between: An International Peace Negotiator’s Top Tips for Resolving ConflictGuest: John, Lord Alderdice, Peer in the House of Lords
Wars are raging again, yet peace IS possible. Getting there provides invaluable lessons for leaders dealing with conflict everywhere, whether it’s in the workplace or the battlefield. John, Lord Alderdice, has helped peace happen.
From the Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles and brought peace to Northern Ireland, to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lord Alderdice has been involved in numerous peace negotiations. But finding peace requires a special kind of leader — one which may be in short supply lately.
Lord A...2023-10-2251 min
Psychoanalysis On and Off the CouchFrom Filmmaking to Psychoanalysis with Karen Dougherty, FIPA (Toronto)"I made a film for PepWeb on the research of Beatrice Beebe. I made the video for her picture book, The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book, and various other short films. These are deep dives into mother-infant dyads that reveal something, i.e. rupture and repair, various kinds of dyadic interchanges. These are available for free on YouTube. That's another way that I use my analytic self and my documentary maker self together. I'm much happier with the YouTube films even though they're less produced because they reach a wide audience - they are for parents, not clinicians. I want t...2023-10-0148 minPodcasty Teologii PolitycznejJP2 Lectures // Prof. Vittorio Possenti: "Prawda, którą winniśmy człowiekowi, to przede wszystkim prawda o człowieku" [IT]Wykład zatytułowany "Prawda, którą winniśmy człowiekowi, to przede wszystkim prawda o człowieku"
Vittorio Possenti – ur. 1938 - włoski filozof, profesor w Katedrze Filozofii Polityki na Uniwersytecie w Wenecji. Zajmuje się filozofią moralną i metafizyką. Członek Narodowego Komitetu Bioetyki, Papieskiej Akademii Nauk Społecznych i Papieskiej Akademii św. Tomasza z Akwinu. Tuż przed konklawe w 1978 roku Possenti sformułował 30 pytań dotyczących nauki społecznej Kościoła, skierowanych do kardynała Karola Wojtyły. Pisemne odpowiedzi udzielone przez przyszłego papieża zostały zamknięte w archiwach na ponad dwadzieścia lat. W 2007 roku uka...2023-06-131h 53
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS9-Ep14: Prepare for the Future with ForesightGuest: Dr. Ciela Hartanov
Change is accelerating. Volatility continues unabated. And no business is immune. What’s a leader to do?
Develop foresight and become future-ready, of course! Ciela Hartanov joins us in this episode to detail her practical process for developing foresight. As a futurist, she’s developed many tools for probing potential paths’ future outcomes. She’s distilled those tools into her foresight process. That, in turn, helps leaders adapt their mindsets, enabling them to make their organizations future ready.
Here's what Ciela and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
The defini...2023-03-3055 minPodcasty Teologii PolitycznejJP2 Lectures // R. R. Reno: "Chrześcijanie w obliczu polaryzacji politycznej" [ENG]Wykład zatytułowany "Chrześcijanie w obliczu polaryzacji politycznej"
Doświadczamy załamania w naszej kulturze politycznej. Czy to polaryzacja? Będę przekonywał, że podstawowym problemem jest dezintegracja, spadek zaufania do podstawowych instytucji. Wykład będzie dotyczył przyczyn dezintegracji, które spoczywają w paradoksalnym założeniu permanentnej rewolucji. W upłynnionym świecie, solidna rzeczywistość Kościoła i autorytet apostolskiego dziedzictwa mogą zakotwiczyć życie ludzi i zapewnić schronienie, jeśli nie rozwiązanie, w naszej epoce dezintegracji.
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R. R. Reno pełnił funkcję redaktora First Things od 2011 roku. Otrzymał doktorat z teologi...2023-03-171h 46
As I Remember It: Bertie Ahern & The Good Friday AgreementEpisode 3: Finding a Way ForwardIn this episode, Bertie Ahern reunites with the rest of the parties that participated in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement. Gary McMichael of the UDP recalls how his father’s murder motivated him to get into politics. Dermot Nesbitt of the UUP, Dawn Purvis of the PUP, Lord John Alderdice of the Alliance Party, Avila Kilmurray, and Monica McWilliams of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition also share their recollections. Plus Bertie talks to Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff at the time, Jonathan Powell.
For more information, full interviews, and bonus material head to Newstalk.com/Goo...2023-02-2258 min
Podcasty Teologii Politycznej[ENG] JP2 Lectures // Lord John Alderdice: Religion as Source of Peace or Unrest in Society?Religia jest regularnie przedstawiana przez jej oponentów jako źródło niepokojów społecznych, a nawet konfliktów i przemocy. Potrafią oni przywoływać wiele wydarzeń z przeszłości w celu poparcia tej tezy. W kontrze do tego osoby wierzące twierdzą, że ich religia jest dla nich źródłem pokoju zarówno w życiu osobistym jak i w życiu społecznym. Oczywiście to ludzie jako indywidualności i jako zbiorowość są odpowiedzialni zarówno za tworzenie konfliktu jak i jego rozwiązywanie. Jak nasze rozumienie własnej religii przyczynia się do tych zdarzeń i dlaczego? Lord Alderice będzie...2021-12-061h 44Psychoanalysis On and Off the CouchOff the Couch and into the Political Arena with John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych (Oxford) "I decided I would try to understand things psychologically because it seemed to me that the current wisdom that people were acting as rational actors operating in their own best interests didn’t actually fit the facts. Many people and communities were doing things that were harmful to themselves. I thought, ‘Well, one profession that spends a lot of its time exploring why individuals and indeed communities do things that harm themselves rather than operating in their best interest is psychiatry and indeed psychoanalysis’. So I went into medicine and qualified in medicine and then in psychiatry and later I went into analysis and...2021-10-3157 min
OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies) Conference 2021. Peace in the Nuclear Era: threats, treaties and public understandingOxPeace 2021 Session 1: Opening and keynote addresses: ‘Current Threats and Challenges’Reverend Dr Liz Carmichael MBE, Convener of OxPeace, opens the 2021 OxPeace Conference. John, Lord Alderdice chairs the opening plenary. Lord Des Browne presents “Current threats and challenges, political and diplomatic”; Professor Nick Ritchie presents “The Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Disarmament”. Discussion then follows on.2021-06-231h 22Podcasty Teologii Politycznej[ENG] 4/4 Re-thinking Solidarity: Solidarity, equality and social justiceThe fourth webinar in our series was held on 19 February and focused on Solidarity, equality and social justice. Speakers include:
Lord Alderdice (Chair)
Fr Michal Paluch, Rector of the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
Dr Austen Ivereigh, Fellow in Contemporary Church History, Campion Hall, Oxford
Sally J. Scholz, PhD, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University
Professor Tomasz Żyro, University of Warsaw / Political Theology
Re-thinking Solidarity is organised by the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building and the Political Theology, in partnership with St. Benet’s Institute, St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford and The St. J...2021-02-221h 26Podcasty Teologii Politycznej[ENG] 2/4 Re-thinking Solidarity: Solidarity between the generations – environmental and financial sustainabilityThe second webinar in our series will focus on Solidarity between the generations – environmental and financial sustainability. Speakers include: Lord Alderdice (chair), s. Helen Alford OP, Vice Rector, Angelicum Kalypso Nicolaidis, University of Oxford Carlos Fidalgo Gallardo, Universidad de Sevilla Marek A. Cichocki, Political Theology Re-thinking Solidarity is organized by the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building and the Political Theology, in partnership with St. Benet’s Institute, St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford and The St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome, and supported by the Polish Cultural I...2020-11-271h 30Podcasty Teologii Politycznej[ENG] 1/4 Re-thinking Solidarity: Solidarity, religion and inter-faith dialogueFollowing the success of the last webinar, which marked the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Solidarnosc – the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, which led to the collapse of communism and a peaceful transition to democracy across Central and Eastern Europe, we are launching Re-thinking Solidarity series. Re-thinking Solidarity will bring together leading academics, historians, philosophers, theologians, social activists, policymakers, and legislators to engage in thoughtful reflection and re-think what solidarity means today, in light of a variety of societal changes, the current geopolitical situation an,d the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic. We will explore the idea o...2020-11-271h 32
Politics on the CouchHow does it feel ? In conversation with Parliament's only politician and psychotherapistThis week Rafael Behr talks to The Lord John Alderdice about his incredible life as a politician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist.They discuss how his formative years living in Northern Ireland influenced his decision to train as a psychiatrist and then psychotherapist; how this then informed his whole approach to politics and his political philosophy; and how it also helped him as a key negotiator in the Good Friday Agreement talks. He also gives some advice to any intolerant liberal progressives out there!If you're interested in reading more about him and his work...2020-05-0747 min
Changing Character of WarTerrorism and Recent Developments in Human RightsLord John Alderdice gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.2020-04-1642 min
Politics, As UsualEpisode 11: John AlderdiceLord John Alderdice was the first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly between 1998-2004. A pivotal figure in the search for peace in Northern Ireland during the 1990’s, he served as Leader of the Alliance Party and in that role did much to encourage talks with Sinn Féin when many were still resisting. In this […]2020-01-081h 00
Psikoyorum.tv - PodcastLord John Alderdice : “Çok şanslısınız, şahane bir hastaneniz var”Oxford Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Lord John Alderdice Üsküdar Üniversitesinin fahri doktora takdim töreninde konuştu. Alderdice: “Çok şanslısınız, şahane bir hastaneniz var.”2019-09-1802 min
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationInterview with Lord John AlderdiceLord John Alderdice (Liberal Democrat peer and Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC)) talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips. They talk about poetry, peace processes and the challenges of creating positive commemoration.2017-11-2021 min
PODCAST URSeminar on community cohesionEl Centro de Estudios psicosociales de la Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud organizó este evento que contó con la participación de Lord John Alderdice quién dirigió la delegación de la Alianza al Foro para la paz y la reconciliación en el Castillo de Dublín y las conversaciones multipartidarias de Irlanda del Norte. Este evento corresponde al tercer simposio de las emociones en Escenarios de conflicto en conjunto con Colombia.Informa Mario Castro2017-06-1509 min
alaninbelfastpart 2 - The Ethnics of Memory and Community Recovery #HMD15 @CDPB_NI @icrniHolocaust Memorial Day panel discussion with Daniel Greenberg, Lord Alderdice and John Larkin organised by Centre for Democracy & Peace Building and the Institute for Conflict Research #HMD15 (the audio quality is poor due to the participants not consistently using their microphones!) Mr Ulster's blog post at http://sluggerotoole.com/2015/01/27/never-use-memory-or-lack-thereof-to-justify-cruelty-holocaust-memorial-day-2015/2015-01-3028 min
alaninbelfastpart 1 - The Ethnics of Memory and Community Recovery #HMD15 @CDPB_NI @icrniHolocaust Memorial Day panel discussion with Daniel Greenberg, Lord Alderdice and John Larkin organised by Centre for Democracy & Peace Building and the Institute for Conflict Research #HMD15 (the audio quality is poor due to the participants not consistently using their microphones!) Mr Ulster's blog post at http://sluggerotoole.com/2015/01/27/never-use-memory-or-lack-thereof-to-justify-cruelty-holocaust-memorial-day-2015/2015-01-3051 min
Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Psychology of Violence: insurgents and counterinsurgentsContributor(s): Lord Alderdice, Dr Deirdre MacManus | How much do we know about the psychology of those engaged in the violence of insurgency and counterinsurgency? What are the predispositions and motivations for violence, and what are the psychological consequences of their experiences? From 1987 to 1998 John Alderdice was the leader of Northern Ireland’s cross-community Alliance Party. He has previously served as the consultant–in-charge of the Centre for Psychotherapy, Belfast. Deirdre MacManus is a forensic psychiatrist and clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.2013-02-261h 38Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe Psychology of Violence: insurgents and counterinsurgentsContributor(s): Lord Alderdice, Dr Deirdre MacManus | How much do we know about the psychology of those engaged in the violence of insurgency and counterinsurgency? What are the predispositions and motivations for violence, and what are the psychological consequences of their experiences? From 1987 to 1998 John Alderdice was the leader of Northern Ireland’s cross-community Alliance Party. He has previously served as the consultant–in-charge of the Centre for Psychotherapy, Belfast. Deirdre MacManus is a forensic psychiatrist and clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.2013-02-261h 38