1. WomenMatter - Facts and Trade-Offs – Women and the War Word: Fear, Facts & Action: This show explains how and why the United States often gets into conflicts that have no end and what we as citizens can and should do to become part of the decision-making. WomenMatter looks at the politics, the Constitution, the similarities and differences between taking on terrorists and other long term challenges like drugs and weapons of mass destruction. What is our responsibility and what should we do about the uses of fear? Click Here (00:51:57)

2. Intro: Dr. Nancy Bauer, CEO and Editor-in Chief of WomenMatter, and psychiatrist Dr. Michelle Berlinerblau look at the emotional response that we all feel between receiving critical information and taking action, especially when we are told we are in a conflict that is ongoing with no specific enemy, no description of victory, and no foreseeable end. What makes us so afraid? What do we, particularly women, do when we hear the “War” word?
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3. Interview with Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. What does the Constitution really say about who can take us to war and what can we do about it? How should we think about our freedom to know and to speak and to have a private life? Is our debate over our current government new in our history? Do cell phones, the internet, and weapons of mass destruction change our way of governing ourselves?
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4. Interview with Dr. Rensselaer Lee, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. How the “war” on terror compares with the “war” on drugs and the “war” on nuclear proliferation? How and why does the United States launch these and why does the rest of the world not join in? What doesn’t work and what might?
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5. Interview with Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University, former Ambassador to Austria, and founder of the Inclusive Security program. How in her international work, Ambassador Hunt has brought women together across serious divisions to be at the table when important decisions are made. What holds women back? What would make it possible for women to wage peace before war happens.
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6. Dr. Bauer and Dr. Michelle Berlinerblau spotlight why and how leaders use war to reach us emotionally and get us to follow. Is it different for men and women? How we need to observe ourselves as we take in information, learn to trust ourselves, to question, and take responsible action.
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