Come Together Right Now — with Shamil Idriss

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

How many technologists have traveled to Niger, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, to learn the lessons of peacebuilding? Technology and social media are creating patterns and pathways of conflict that few people anticipated or even imagined just a decade ago. And we need to act quickly to contain the effects, but we don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are people, such as this episode’s guest, Shamil Idriss, CEO of the organization Search for Common Ground, who have been training for years to understand human beings and learn how to help them connect and begin healing processes. These experts can share their insights and help us figure out how to apply them to our new digital habitats. “Peace moves at the speed of trust, and trust can’t be fast-tracked,” says Shamil. Real change is possible, but as he explains, it takes patience, care, and creativity to get there.

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0:00.0	A couple hundred people stream in from all across the village and literally sit down
0:04.7	and then a play is put out and I don't understand the language so my colleagues are sharing
0:08.7	with me okay this is a story about forced marriage.
0:11.8	That's Shammel Idris.
0:13.3	He's watching this play in the remote conflict-ridden town of Difa, Niger.
0:18.0	Difa Niger may be the most remote place that I've been ever.
0:21.5	The people who brought him there, his colleagues on this project, spent weeks listening to the
0:25.9	community talk about the conflicts they're experiencing and the obstacles at play.
0:30.6	We're talking about forced marriage of 12-year-old girls, 13-year-old girls, kids being given
0:35.4	by their families because the families need the money, the kids lose all of their education,
0:40.2	horrible stuff that was going on.
0:42.7	Then they create a performance like this one that appeals to as many people as possible.
0:46.4	So I'm sitting there and I'm watching and at the end of the play, the animator gets
0:50.6	up and says, can anyone summarize for me what this was about?
0:54.3	When this girl gets up, I'll never forgive me.
0:56.6	She comes up to the microphone and in this small voice, she starts saying, first explaining
1:02.2	mechanically what happened and then she gets really impassioned.
1:05.6	She's saying, this is happening now.
1:07.7	This isn't a false story.
1:08.9	This is happening now.
1:09.9	This is happening to friends of mine.
1:11.0	I don't want this to happen to me.
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