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5 min read🎙️ The Speakers & Context
- The Format: NPR radio show featuring curated TED Talks with host narration and interviews.
- The Key Players:
- Akilah Sherrills: Activist and peacemaker; negotiated 1992 Crips-Bloods truce in Watts, LA; scaled violence intervention in Newark (homicides -64%); credible via direct gang leadership to grants-funded orgs.
- Aziz Abu Sarah: Palestinian peace activist; co-founder Mejdi Tours/Interact International; expert in dual-narrative diplomacy across 70 countries.
- Maoz Inon: Israeli peace activist; lost parents on Oct 7, 2023; builds coalitions for shared futures; credible post-trauma commitment to non-revenge.
- The Vibe: Reflective and resilient; contrasts raw trauma with pragmatic optimism.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Akilah Sherrills**
- 2 (01:56) **Growing Up Amid Crack Epidemic and Gang Violence in Watts**
- 3 (04:26) **College Epiphany and Return to Organize Peace**
- 4 (08:30) **Influence of Farrakhan and Meetings at Jim Brown's House**
- 5 (11:17) **Negotiating Ceasefire with Shooters at the Mosque**
- 6 (16:19) **Rodney King Riots and Official 1994 Treaty Signing**
- 7 (19:48) **Maintaining Fragile Peace Through Constant Dialogue**
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Show Notes
How do you rebuild trust after bloodshed? This hour, a closer look at two unlikely truces: LA gang leaders who negotiated peace and activists in the Middle East who chose dialogue over hate.
Guests include peace activists Aqeela Sherrills, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon.
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Guests include peace activists Aqeela Sherrills, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon.
TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at plus.npr.org/ted.
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