Bearing Witness in Afghanistan
Channel: MettaCenter
Date: 2021-12-14

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Originally published 9/27/2021

0:03:22 The War Market 
0:05:21 Seeing Flight as a nonviolent option 
0:07:10 Moral Injury 
0:09:51 Ban Killer Drones https://bankillerdrones.org/
0:14:58 Aiding the People of Afghanistan 
0:20:21 Humanizing the Other 
0:26:30 Seeing Afghanistan Through a Keyhole 
0:33:41 Resiliency of Nonviolence 
0:38:45 Refugees and Empathy 
0:43:34 Religion of Militarism 
0:48:19 Can We Be Concerned About Afghanistan? 
0:51:48 Nonviolence Report 

This episode, Michael and Stephanie talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign. This week she discusses her extensive experience in and thoughts about Afghanistan. American intervention, she believes, was -- and indeed, continues to be -- entirely misoriented, escalating rather than resolving the violent conflicts there. She offers some practical and clear advice on what good and productive involvement might entail, and provides concrete ways we might engage. She also pushes us to reconsider our preconceived ideas, both about the Taliban and ourselves; in doing so we can start to empathize, re-humanize and be less afraid.

Transcript archived at Waging Nonviolence https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/podcast/bearing-witness-in-afghanistan-a-conversation-with-kathy-kelly-on-ending-war-and-listening-to-its-victims/