From 1980 to 2004 the Stanley Center produced Common Ground, an award-winning weekly radio program on world affairs.
Common Ground, a weekly radio program on world affairs, ran from 1980 to 2004. Hundreds of public and noncommerical radio stations across the United States and Canada depended on Common Ground for news and in-depth analysis of critical international issues.
During its tenure, Common Ground earned a reputation for excellence in broadcast journalism and was honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Clarion Awards, the New York Festivals, the National Headliner Awards, the American Women in Radio and Television, and other recognitions.
Over the years, Common Ground was produced and hosted by Jeff Martin, Jim Berard, Mary Gray-Davidson, Keith Porter, and Kristin McHugh. This archive contains the audio and transcript files of the show.
The refugee camps scattered throughout eastern and central Africa are straining their already desperately poor host countries. This program visits a camp housing 12,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda.
The UN set up a court two years ago to try those accused of massacring a half million Rwandans in 1994. We talk with the UN Inspector General investigating why little has happened at the court so far.
This program provides first-hand accounts of how the government of Sudan is waging war on its own people and attempting to destabilize its neighbors.
How to feed the 8 billion people expected on the planet by the middle of the next century.
New technology and practices are putting power into the hands of ordinary people.
Two leaders of the US-based Africa Fund discuss their efforts to turn American attention and foreign policy toward Africa.
Domestic and international human rights organizations are beginning to find common cause.
After a stormy year end, the UN is poised to pick up the pieces with a new secretary-general.
Fifty-one years ago, a ten-year-old girl was quietly reading in her Hiroshima home when an atomic bomb destroyed her world. We hear her inspiring words in this program.