How peace can persevere (w/ Aziz Abu Sarah)

How to Be a Better Human

TED

Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 43 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.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to how to be a better human.
0:10.0	I'm your host Chris Duffy.
0:11.0	On today's episode, we're going to be talking about how to make peace
0:14.6	in a world that is filled with conflict.
0:17.2	Sometimes the answer is big and dramatic.
0:19.1	It's a signing of accords or two governments
0:21.2	negotiating a settlement.
0:23.0	But other times, the answer is smaller,
0:26.0	more granular and individual.
0:27.5	It's tiny bits of progress that accumulate over time
0:30.0	into something bigger.
0:32.0	Today's guest, Aziz Abu-Sara, runs a travel company when he is not working as a peace activist.
0:37.0	And those two occupations might seem very far apart, but as Aziz explained in his TED Talk, they're actually quite connected.
0:44.1	Because to have peace, you need to be able to see the world differently.
0:48.1	Here's a clip from Aziz's TED Talk.
0:50.8	I worked in 70 countries and peace and conflict and everywhere I worked I found that we share the same problems
0:58.2	the cause of conflicts are the same, it's lack of recognition, not willing to understand each other,
1:03.4	historical narrative, and not having a shared vision for our future.
1:08.4	And not doing those things is a fatal mistake.
1:11.9	We live next to each other,
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