The Peace Activation Podcast

In this episode of the Peace Activation Podcast, recorded in the lead-up to the Calling Men to Peace initiative, Eva sits down with longtime Israeli peace activist Yael Patir for a deeply personal conversation about conflict, conditioning, protection, and the role men must play in building a more peaceful future.

Drawing from decades of peace activism and lived experience within Israeli society, Yael reflects on the stories many Isr...

“I can’t bring peace in the world if I don’t have it.”  - Reggie Hubbard

In this episode Eva lands with a kindred spirit and parallel partner in Peace. His name is Reggie Hubbard, founder of Active Peace Yoga. Stepping up to offer calm and radical presence in the crises of Covid in 2020, Reggie has been sending out lifeboats of love through the language of gongs and bowls, to all the madness of th...

What becomes possible when boys and men are offered safe, compassionate spaces to fully express their humanity?

That's what we are setting out to discover in this series, Calling Men to Peace.

In Part 2 of the Calling Men to Peace series, Eva sits down with global humanitarian, author, non-profit founder and community organizer Hawah Kasat, who is also creator and host of the stunningly powerful Everlutionary Podcast.

Drawing from ...

Hosted by Eva Dalak

Produced and Co-hosted with J'aime Rothbard

What's the worst thing that can happen when recording a conversation with somebody who you hold in high esteem and admire greatly? Here's the answer: Listen to the entire conversation blossom, unfurl and come to close before you realize that you forgot to press record.

That's precisely what happened in our first run sitting down with speaker and writer Charles Eisenstein...

In this deeply moving episode, Eva sits with Haneen who is a writer, mother, and activist originally from Gaza, to explore what it means to activate peace in the midst of unimaginable loss, displacement, and ongoing violence.

This is not a conversation about abstract peace.

It is a lived, embodied exploration of how we continue,

how we grieve, resist, create, and remain human
when everything around us is asking us to shut down.

Han...

Eva sits down with Mark Eckhardt, Co-Founder and CEO of Common a worldwide buisness company committed to social innovation, and also Founder of One Million Truths, which collects personal stories to inform conflict-transformation strategies. Mark is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest who also serves on the Presidential Board at Search For Common Ground. He joins Eva to explore what Peace Activation truly means in his work: beyond theo...

In this episode, J’aime is joined by Fabrice Renaudin to explore how somatic integration becomes a living tool within the methodology of Peace Activation. But first, the Love Story of how he and Eva danced into one another on the Playa at Burning Man in 2008. 

Together, Eva and Fabrice never stopped dancing. With their labor of love, Peace Activation, they are moving beyond theory and into the body: where healing, truth, ...

In this deeply reflective episode, Eva explores the fourth pillar of Peace Activation: embodied feminine wisdom.

Drawing from her lived experience, from UN conflict zones to giving birth in the Costa Rican jungle, Eva challenges dominant narratives around productivity, gender, and power, inviting listeners into a radically different way of being rooted in silence, nature, and inner knowing.

This conversation moves from personal awake...

Host Eva Dak welcomes returning guest Nada Elrhalami to discuss how Eva’s 25+ years working with the UN, EU, and NGOs across 22+ conflict zones shaped Peace Activation. Eva shares an example from Iraq in 2015, facilitating 60 women from different tribes and religions to move from hatred and tension toward heart-centered connection and community action to reduce violence against women, noting similar work in India and parts of...

In this episode of the Peace Activation Podcast, Eva Dalak is joined by collaborator Nada Elrhalami, founder of Peacelab, for a deep and timely conversation about the relevance of the Peace Activation methodology in a world marked by war, polarization, and collective trauma.

Speaking from her perspective as a first-generation Afghan-Moroccan American and peacebuilding scholar, Nada brings forward the questions many people are asking...

“I saw seven generations of women in my mother’s lineage… each one carrying what she promised to do. And when I asked what I had committed to, the answer was: You committed to speak.”

Today Eva Dalak and J’aime explore the intersection of trauma, identity, service, and consciousness. Eva reflects on her lived experience growing up as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, the inherited trauma carried through...

Featuring Eva Dalak, hosted and produced by J'aime Rothbard.

“If I am an empty cup, the last thing I want to do is serve.” - Eva Dalak

We’ve just stepped into the Year of the Fire Horse — a year known in Chinese astrology for bold movement, passion, and powerful forward momentum. Fire Horse energy can mobilize us. It can awaken courage. It can stir urgency.

But it can also burn us out if we’re not resourc...

In this inaugural episode, Eva Dalak and producer J’aime Rothbard mark the rebirthing of Peace is Possible, ushering in the Peace Activation Podcast on the sacred anniversary of Eva’s father’s birth.  Weaving together stories of grief, dissolving of identity and judgment, and experiences that deepened her embodiment of peace, Eva affirms that “We are light that came here to experience the darkness.&rdqu...

Stay tuned, this podcast is changing its name next week! In this final episode of the Peace is Possible podcast, Eva sits down with the person who inspired her to begin her solo pursuit of podcasting. This week, she’s talking to anthropologist, writer, and activist Elana Maryles Sztokman. For 3 seasons, Eva and Elena co-hosted Women Ending War. Today, they discuss their shared experiences working in peace organizations where ...

”Both journalists and theater practitioners and artists and musicians –  have been some of the most powerful people that have taught me these lessons. And we often can find ourselves denigrating or dismissing creativity and imagination. We are often rewarded for a more analytical fact-based view of things, and yet that often holds us back from seeing where our lines of perception can meet.”

Host Eva Dalak inte...

In this episode of the Peace Is Possible podcast, host Eva engages in a profound conversation with Sulaiman, a Palestinian activist and co-founder of Combatants for Peace. Sulaiman shares his journey from a young boy involved in armed resistance to a proponent of non-violence and reconciliation. He reflects on his experiences in prison, where he discovered the power of non-violent struggle and the importance of humanizing narrative...

What if peace was as profitable as war?

In this episode of Peace Is Possible, Eva speaks with Ashley Bell, a justice-minded leader shaped by the Deep South and the legacy of the civil rights movement. Ashley shares his path from public defense work to building systems that expand access, dignity, and opportunity — and why dehumanization is the first step toward violence.

Together they explore worthiness, financial access, syste...

What happens when an Israeli combat soldier suddenly sees himself in the eyes of the “enemy”?

In this episode, Eva sits down with Rani Oren — educator, founder of Youth of Light, and initiator of the We Are One movement and political party in Israel. Rani shares the moment in the West Bank that shattered his conditioning, opened his heart, and set him on a decades-long path of inner work, meditation, and service.

Ra...

In this powerful conversation, South African human rights lawyer and activist Pooven Moodley joins Eva to reflect on life after apartheid and what true justice and liberation mean today. Drawing from decades of grassroots organizing—from the anti-apartheid struggle to global climate and land rights movements, Pooven shares hard-won insights on power, solidarity, and the unfinished work of freedom.

Together, they explore how sy...