Send us a text In this wide-ranging and unfiltered conversation, Robert Young Pelton sits down with Professor Clionadh Raleigh, founder of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), to unpack how global violence is actually measured—and why most people misunderstand what the data really shows. For anyone expecting a Band-Aid solution or We Are the World framing, be warned: both Pelton and Raleigh argue that violence is a feature, not a flaw, of modern state foreign policy. ...
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Send us a text In this wide-ranging and unfiltered conversation, Robert Young Pelton sits down with Professor Clionadh Raleigh, founder of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), to unpack how global violence is actually measured—and why most people misunderstand what the data really shows. For anyone expecting a Band-Aid solution or We Are the World framing, be warned: both Pelton and Raleigh argue that violence is a feature, not a flaw, of modern state foreign policy. ...
Rory Nugent: Lessons From A life of Pushing the Limits
The World's Most Dangerous Places Podcast
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Rory Nugent: Lessons From A life of Pushing the Limits
Send us a text Robert Young Pelton and Rory Nugent are kindred spirits. Nugent first made his name by crossing the Atlantic solo four and a half times—the “half” voyage inspiring the new book he’s now writing. A boatbuilder, sailor, writer, and journalist, Nugent began with the perfection of open space—the union of wind, sail, boat, and sea—before steering toward darkness: African swamps, war’s deep shadows, vanishing traditions, and fragile human memory. Pelton and Nugent explore pure advent...
The World's Most Dangerous Places Podcast
Send us a text In this wide-ranging and unfiltered conversation, Robert Young Pelton sits down with Professor Clionadh Raleigh, founder of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), to unpack how global violence is actually measured—and why most people misunderstand what the data really shows. For anyone expecting a Band-Aid solution or We Are the World framing, be warned: both Pelton and Raleigh argue that violence is a feature, not a flaw, of modern state foreign policy. ...
