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Conflict resolution activist Marc Gopin speaks with WIE editor Carter Phipps about religion, conflict, and the radical healing power of the human heart.

Aboriginal Australian educator Lillian Holt hails the virtues of genuine authenticity in this conversation about the search for identity beyond ethnicity.

Pentagon insider Thomas Barnett draws on decades of experience as a strategic consultant to the world's most powerful military to paint a remarkably idealistic picture of what the world could look like in the twenty-first century.

Cultural development specialist Elza Maalouf speaks to Elizabeth Debold about some of the most promising trends she sees emerging across the Muslim world.

“Grand strategist” Thomas Barnett argues that despite its bad rap, the widespread globalization of Western-style capitalism and democracy may actually be the most unifying, progressive, and liberating force in human history.

In part two, Thomas Barnett challenges a common misconception found in many progressive, liberal circles today: that the rise and spread of modernity has created a more violent, unjust, and impoverished world.

Marc Gopin explores what the great religions have to say about God, pacifism, just war, and the challenges of telling right from wrong in a morally ambiguous universe.

Explore the different alternatives to meeting violence with violence as Michael Nagler discusses the historic, social, and spiritual significance of pacifism and nonviolence.

Is peace the answer to a world in chaos? Against the backdrop of 9/11 and Iraq, WIE asks the hard questions about just wars and religious violence, and explores the relationship between our deepest spiritual principles and the politics of an evolving global society.

The guru and the pandit discuss the relationship between belief systems, views of reality, and political orientation in this thought-provoking dialogue. In so doing, they describe the nature of the creative process and its role in the process of transcending old structures.

Held hostage for five years in Lebanon, John McCarthy shares how a spiritual experience and a rare friendship turned a hellish ordeal into a transformative odyssey.

The Muslim world stands at a crossroads, and the future of the planet may rest on which direction it takes: confrontation or its own cultural and religious heritage of tolerance and peace.

The renowned Christian lay monk and interfaith activist believed that if we are to survive as a species there must be a spiritual awakening of the human heart, one that transforms the core of limitation into the seeds of transformation.