KindSight 101

#2: What Nuclear Weapons Negotiations Taught this Nobel Peace Prize Nominee about Bullying in Schools (with Dr. Scilla Elworthy)

Episode Summary

Have you ever wondered what fear, nuclear war, Richard Branson and iced cream have in common? Today our very special guest, a three-time nobel peace prize nominee provides the prescription for a bully-free school-yard by employing an unlikely and successful strategy used during global peace negotiations. She shares her business plan for peace and provides inspiring examples of unifying kindness grassroots movements across the globe. Dr. Elworthy will have you laughing, crying, and feeling more inspired about your role in the world.

Episode Notes

Have you ever wondered what fear, nuclear war, Richard branson and iced cream have in common? Today our very special guest, a three-time nobel peace prize nominee provides the prescription for a bully-free school yard by employing an unlikely and successful strategy used during global peace negotiations. She shares her business plan for peace and provides inspiring examples of unifying kindness grassroots movements across the globe. Dr. Elworthy will have you laughing, crying, and feeling more inspired about your role in the world.

About SCILLA ELWORTHY PhD:

Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, work which included a series of meetings between Chinese, Russian and western nuclear scientists and military. She founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas: Peace
Direct was voted ‘Best New Charity’ in 2005.
Scilla was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and was adviser to Peter Gabriel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’. Scilla co-founded Rising Women Rising World in 2013, and FemmeQ in 2016 to establish the qualities of feminine intelligence for women and men as essential to use in building a safer world. Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1,130,000 people. Her latest book The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017) and her book Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works (North Atlantic Books, 2014) received critical acclaim from experts in the field.
Scilla is an Ambassador for Peace Direct, a Councillor of the World Future Council and patron
of Oxford Research Group; adviser to the Syria Campaign and the Institute for Economics and Peace. She advises the leadership of selected international corporations as well as students and young social entrepreneurs. Scilla is a mother, stepmother, and grandmother and loves messing about in her garden near Oxford in the UK.

Dr Scilla Elworthy
www.scillaelworthy.com

Core Team | FemmeQ
www.femmeq.org

Author |The Business Plan for Peace
www.scillaelworthy.com/the-business-plan-for-peace

Founder | Oxford Research Group
www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk

Founder |Peace Direct
www.peacedirect.org

Watch a TED Talk:
www.ted.com/talks/scilla_elworthy_fighting_with_non_violence

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