Re-release: How peace can persevere (w/ Aziz Abu Sarah)

How to Be a Better Human

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Self-improvement, Personal Growth, Better Human, Chris Duffy, Interviews, Emotional Awareness, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It’s extremely difficult to move past anger and hurt driving you towards revenge. War, violence, and suffering are driven by that cycle of emotions. Palestinian author, peacemaker, and entrepreneur Aziz Abu Sarah knows the feelings well, but from his own life experiences, he shares his belief that peace is achievable and another way forward is possible. In this episode, Aziz tells his story and explains his work to bring even the most seemingly intractable conflicts to a resolution that allows for justice, reconciliation, and safety for all.

This episode originally aired September 9, 2024.

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0:00.0	Hi, TED Podcast listeners. It's Elise Hugh here from TED Talks Daily. Thanks for making our
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0:22.2	Head to the episode description to find the link. Thank you again for listening and for taking
0:27.1	the time to help our shows. Hi, everyone. This week in the United States, it is Memorial Day,
0:34.1	a holiday when we think about the real costs of war and armed conflict.
0:38.3	And we are re-airing an episode from the archive. This is a conversation with the peacemaker
0:43.1	Aziz Abu-Sara. This was recorded a year ago, but unfortunately, the topic and the conversation
0:49.6	that we had with Aziz are just as relevant, if not more relevant today. I hope that you will
0:54.0	enjoy this conversation in this episode. I hope that you will enjoy this
0:54.6	conversation in this episode. I hope that you will be just as inspired as I am to move away from
0:59.2	conflict and into peace and reconciliation and justice. And we will be back next week with a new
1:05.5	episode of How to Be a Better Human. Until then, here's Aziz. You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host,
1:13.1	Chris Duffy. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about how to make peace in a world that is
1:18.3	filled with conflict. Sometimes the answer is big and dramatic. It's a signing of accords or two
1:23.3	governments negotiating a settlement. But other times, the answer is smaller, more granular and
1:29.4	individual. It's tiny bits of progress that accumulate over time into something bigger.
1:34.5	Today's guest, Aziz Abusara, runs a travel company when he is not working as a peace
1:38.9	activist. And those two occupations might seem very far apart. But as Aziz explained in his
1:44.1	TED talk,
1:44.8	they're actually quite connected. Because to have peace, you need to be able to see the world differently.
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