AEWCH 287: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025 : PEACEKEEP with CHEYNEY RYAN

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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This is the fifith in a series of episodes on How To Live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist.In other words, tools that don’t merely deaden us in the frantic pursuit of survival, but that assist us in nourishing ourselves, each other, and the world, all together.

The theme isPEACEKEEP
and my guest isCHEYNEY RYAN.

Cheyney works withThe Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. He's a a researcher; professor; founder of the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict at Oxford; and author, most recently, of the excellent book,Pacifism as War Abolitionism and also ofThe Chickenhawk Syndrome: War, Sacrifice, and Personal Responsibility, as well as many articles on peace activism, pacifism, Marxism, and nonviolent action (you can find links to plenty of the here).

PEACEKEEP was a word I had to invent for the show because we have such an undeveloped language of peace. While the lexicon of war is extensive, the act of creating true peace in the world doesn’t exist in an active word.

That is in part because thewar system - as Cheyney calls the autonomous, seemingly inexorable network of war activities, sites, motivations, and contracts - has instead on the articulation of its own anatomy. It's entranced us into detailing its every contour so that we become more and more convinced of its reality and density.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.
0:03.9	Friends, underneath the intense and loud notes of chaos,
0:08.5	executive orders and trade wars, the continuing scapegoating of trans people and immigrants,
0:13.9	the low hum of war is always with us.
0:18.7	Too many people are experiencing these wars firsthand. Palestinians and also people
0:24.2	in Ukraine and Russia, in Sudan and the Congo, in Afghanistan and Myanmar, in over 100 ongoing
0:33.1	armed conflicts happening right now. War. War has no aim. War is destruction for destruction's sake.
0:43.2	It abandons the imagination. War does not die down into embers until people stop throwing
0:50.4	bodies, their own bodies and the bodies of others, into it as fuel. War does not go out
0:57.1	completely until the imagination is reopened by peace and commitment to our connections with each other.
1:06.5	What is war? What do we do about it in all its forms, including the wars within us?
1:14.1	This is the fifth in a series of episodes on how to live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts,
1:20.8	feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. In other words,
1:27.0	tools that don't merely deaden us into the frantic pursuit
1:31.4	of survival, but that assist us in nourishing ourselves, each other, and the world altogether.
1:37.3	At the end of each of these episodes is an exercise you can do to carry forward the vitality
1:42.3	of the conversation, so stay on after the closing
1:44.8	credits music. This time, the theme is peacekeep, and my guess is Cheney Ryan. Cheney works with the Oxford
1:54.3	Consortium for Human Rights. He's a researcher, a professor, and founder of the Institute for Ethics,
2:00.4	law, and Armed Conflict
2:01.9	at Oxford. He's the author most recently of the excellent book, Pacifism as War Abolitionism.
2:10.5	Peacekeep was a word I had to invent for the show, because we have such an undeveloped language
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