EBTV presents host Evita Ochel with special guest Paul K. Chappell – author, former military captain and leadership director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

The interview covers major topics from Paul’s book, Peaceful Revolution.

Specific topics covered include:

Topics covered in the video include:

1. Paul shares about his personal journey and story. (2:35)

   • growing up in a military household
   • personal experience in the military as a soldier

2. The fallacy of thinking that world peace is impossible and war is a natural part of life (4:40)

   • human beings are not naturally violent
   • military history

3. The training and conditioning humans need to go through to be soldiers and be violent. (7:00)

   • our natural repulsion to violence and being violent

4. What does it mean to be human. (9:25)

   • exploring the muscles of humanity

5. The effects of being exposed to violence in childhood, on human beings. (11:55)

   • Paul’s personal experience with violence, bullying and oppression
   • how violence during childhood impacts us as adults

6. The role of dehumanization in the continuation of war and violence. (14:05)

   • the essential ingredient of every war is dehumanization
   • the three types of distancing needed to participate in war
   • war propaganda

7. The madness of attacking and killing one’s own species. (18:00)

   • examples from nature how intraspecies destruction is rare
   • the importance of cooperation and language within the human species

8. Our societal obsession with violence in our entertainment choices. (20:30)

   • our biological hardwiring to observe violence
   • examples from nature in the predator and prey species
   • our obsessions with taboo or suppressed topics
   • repression of death in our society
   • participation in violence when it seems meaningful
   • the increasing shock value within our news and entertainment choices

9. What “Peaceful Revolution” means. (29:00)

   • the change possible within the societal mindset

10. Examples of our muscles of humanity that need to be exercised for world peace. (31:10)

    • the role of empathy in our evolution towards peace

11. What message Paul would offer to the United Nations. (33:35)

12. What message Paul would offer to young people interested in enlisting in the army. (34:20)

13. Paul talks about the messages shared in his new, upcoming book “The Art of Waging Peace”. (37:47)

14. What Paul recommends for every citizen to be a part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. (41:45)