In June’s collaboration with the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, (AC4) features a conversation with Chris Blattman. Dr. Blattman explains how employment opportunities and plain old cash incentives can help high-risk men in Liberia avoid seeking out work as mercenary soldiers.
In June’s collaboration with the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, (AC4) features a conversation with Chris Blattman. Dr. Blattman explains how employment opportunities and plain old cash incentives can help high-risk men in Liberia avoid seeking out work as mercenary soldiers.
Beth Fisher-Yoshida interviews Alex Fischer, Associate Director of the Haiti Research and Policy Center at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
Late City Edition producer Sarah Kerson interviews Kenan Juska, collage artist and one half of the DJ collective Chances with Wolves. He spent three years collecting trash and cast off items on the street and compiling them into collages, which are on display until Sept 7 at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
In October's collaboration with the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity, the AC4 team discusses their new book Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement.
Late City Edition Producer Erik Campano sat down with Andrew Cote, urban beekeeper and head of Bees Without Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty through beekeeping.
Arts and Answers producer Danielle Fox sat down with Jenny Lee, producer and editor of the independent film "The Skeleton Twins". The film stars Kristin Wig and Bill Hader as estranged twins Maggie and Milo, who are reunited after cheating death on the same day. Lee discusses the film, her editing process, and her transition from editing comic books to editing feature film. The Skeleton Twins is currently playing at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Peter Coleman interviews José Pascal da Rocha, a professor of conflict resolution at Columbia. Pascal spent the 90s and early 2000s going on peacekeeping missions and serving as a mediator and advisor everywhere from Afghanistan to Somalia. Pascal discusses his experiences in the field and explains how paper-based role-playing games have helped him solve huge and seemingly intractible real-world problems.
Columbia and Barnard's anti-sexual assault movement have gotten significant national media attention, but the coverage never strays far beyond profiling the loudest voices. Late City Edition Producer Naomi Cohen interviews Smita Sen, who started organizing around sexual assault last fall, to talk about the activists who have stayed in the shadows. They discuss the work done before No Red Tape, the survivors who aren't showing up to the rallies, and the arguments that aren't painted on the signs.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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