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Peace Is Here explores the deep architecture of a life unweaponed with a light-hearted touch and a scholar’s heart. Join Avis Kalfsbeek, writer of feisty fiction, for a daily curriculum of peace. We explore historic treaties, nature’s quiet wisdom, and the creative art-vision required for #TheGreatDisarmament. From deep-dive series on peace heroes to fiction stories and personal riffs, we look beneath the surface to see the peace that is already here.
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Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Peacewarts: Orientation – The Enrollment and The Grounds
Welcome to Orientation. In this official orientation episode, we transition from theory to practice as we enroll in a new way of thinking about global conflict. We revisit the "Great Spell" of 1963 and conduct a high-level tour of the eight departments that form the Peacewarts curriculum. We define the "Syllabus of the Soul," establishing a roadmap for our year-long study of structural peace and our shared "Homework Pact"—a daily commitment to questioning the status quo.
Learning Topics:
- Peace Education:Transitioning from passive observation to active enrollment.
- The Great Spell (1963):Understanding the McCloy-Zorin Accords as a starting point for a global curriculum.
- Interdisciplinary Peace:An overview of the eight departments (Universal Understars, Living Roots, Chronicled Courage, Resonant Charms, Morphological Peace, Ethical Defense, Social Chemistry, and Kinetic Peace).
- Structural Peace:Moving beyond "paused violence" toward the presence of active work.
- The Homework Pact:The logistical practice of the "Deep Look" and the well-placed question.
Resources & Links:
- Join the Curriculum: “Follow” the podcast as we launch into the first semester of this new peace school.
- Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
- 2025 Peace Was Here podcast recap eBook (free) https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jc4lcqga9f
- Podcast Music: Javier Peke Rodriguez https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
The Midnight Realization – A Personal Note About Peacewarts
What happens when the standard ways of talking about peace feel too heavy? In this personal note, Avis transitions from The Peace Experiments into a brand-new adventure for 2026: a peace school. After a bout of midnight insomnia, a new structural logic emerged: a way to study peace that is as rigorous as it is joyful. Welcome to Peacewarts.
Resources & Links:
- Join the Curriculum: “Follow” the podcast as we launch into the first semester of this new peace school.
- Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
- 2025 Peace Was Here podcast recap eBook (free) https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jc4lcqga9f
- Podcast Music: Javier Peke Rodriguez https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Pothole Broadcast
In Chapter Thirteen, Kitty delivers one last broadcast from Midway. Using Doris the Pothole as both witness and metaphor, she reflects on what the hearing revealed and what it failed to fix. Peace, she reminds us, is not a grand declaration but an act of maintenance: noticing cracks, refusing denial, and telling the truth before the damage spreads. With Marzipan’s approval echoing through the room, Kitty closes Experiment Zero not with certainty, but with resolve—and an open road still asking to be repaired.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Monday Jan 12, 2026
Monday Jan 12, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: New Files, The Pothole and the Protocol
Chapter Twelve brings us back to Midway, where Kitty files the story that quietly changes everything. After the national hearing, a modest directive authorizes youth-led peace experiments—not because institutions believe in peace, but because they can no longer justify their fear of it. At her desk, with Marzipan keeping time, Kitty realizes her role has changed. She is no longer chasing the argument. She is witnessing what happens next.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Sunday Jan 11, 2026
Sunday Jan 11, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Question from Osprey Point
The hearing resumes with more speeches, more caution, and less listening. While officials debate peace as an abstract risk, the youth delegation is sidelined—literally placed in overflow. When Garrett steps forward to ask a single, clear question, the room is forced to confront something it has carefully avoided: what happens if young people are allowed to test the assumptions adults keep defending.
This episode marks the turning point of Experiment Zero, where observation becomes interruption and silence finally breaks.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Saturday Jan 10, 2026
Saturday Jan 10, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Hearing on Global Inertia
Kitty travels to the capital to cover a high-level hearing on global disarmament. Inside a cavernous hotel ballroom, officials and defense contractors frame peace as a dangerous gamble and delay as responsibility. The youth delegation is present but constrained, allowed to speak just long enough to be thanked and ignored. As the hearing concludes, Kitty realizes the system is not failing by accident—it is working exactly as designed, and the real test is still ahead.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Friday Jan 09, 2026
Friday Jan 09, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: The Midway Broadcast, Myths Debunked
In a rare break from standard reporting, Kitty O’Compost goes live from the Beacon to name the myths that keep peace permanently postponed. With Marzipan providing emphatic fact-checks and Garrett’s voice cutting through the static, the broadcast reframes inevitability, fear, and scale as claims that can be tested rather than truths to be obeyed. This is the night the story stops circling the pothole and starts naming what dug it.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Thursday Jan 08, 2026
Thursday Jan 08, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 8 - Server Farms and Seed Banks
Kitty O’Compost follows a question out of town and into two very different systems. At the edge of Midway, she encounters the guarded logistics hub, sealed tight with jargon and authorization. Downriver, she visits the Midway Community Seed Bank, where knowledge, resilience, and future harvests are shared freely. Between the two, Kitty begins to see the real conflict taking shape—not over weapons alone, but over who controls the infrastructure that defines what is possible.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 7 - No Gates in the Garden
Today’s chapter takes us out of meetings and into the soil. Kitty visits a place where ideas don’t argue. They decompose, rest, and come back changed. If you’ve ever wondered whether peace has a practice, not just a policy, this chapter begins to answer that question.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Next here on Peace is Here: Peacewarts School (Understars 101)
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Experiment Zero - The Peace Experiments: Ch 6 - The Science of Skepticism, Scarcity Edition
Kitty O’Compost visits Room 213 at Osprey Point High School, where skepticism is treated not as an attitude but as a scientific discipline. Under the guidance of Ms. Finch, students are running live experiments on the stories adults tell about competition, fear, and scarcity.
At the center of the lab is a single slice of cafeteria pizza, framed as a scarce resource and then deliberately removed from circulation. What follows is not conflict, but a shift in tone, imagination, and cooperation. The students observe what happens when the object everyone is meant to fight over no longer exists.
As Garrett and her classmates collect data, Kitty begins to see that peace may not be a moral argument or a policy goal, but a methodology. One that questions who decides what is scarce, who benefits from that belief, and what becomes possible when the rules are tested rather than obeyed.
Experiment Zero is the prequel to The Peace Experiments, a peace-forward series where a group of young people are brave enough to challenge conventional arguments against peace and disarmament.
Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
Free 2025 Podcast Recap eBook: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025
Music: Alana Jordan (alanajordan) on Pixabay