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How to prevent — or stop — a war | Gabrielle Rifkind

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

"I'm not a pacifist, but in the end, war is the greatest human rights abuse and does not make the world safer," says Gabrielle Rifkind, director of the Oxford Process, an organization dedicated to ending armed conflict. She shares how inclusive negotiating strategies can prevent war from breaking out or stop an ongoing conflict — and shows what we can do to make peace real for all.

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Ted Audio Collective.

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Audio Collective.

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You're listening to Ted Talks daily,

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where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

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I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

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It is impossible to ignore that we are in a time of crises going on all over the world.

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So it's all the more important to try and understand

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what else we can do to prevent conflict.

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It's the work of conflict resolution expert

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Gabriel Rifkind, who addresses what to do to make peace real.

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This essential talk coming up after the break.

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And now our TED Talk of the Day.

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I have worked in international conflict resolution

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for the past two decades. I'm not a pacifist, but in the end war is the

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greatest human rights abuse and does not make the world safer.

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