Unlocking Peace Intelligence with June Benjamin
Unless: The Podcast, hosted by Dr. Hemma R. Lomax
Release Date: 01/07/2025
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info_outlineIn this episode, Hemma visits with June Benjamin, a peace warrior, attorney, former entrepreneur in residence at the Stanford Peace Innovation Institute, and founder of Peace IQ, a technology company leveraging the power of AI to offer strategic insights, predictive analytics, and conflict resolution tools, creating pathways to enduring peace.
As Peace IQ’s Chief Visionary Officer, June coined the term "peace intelligence," a multifaceted approach that integrates AI, wisdom from ancient traditions, and peace data to train AI in providing insights and resolving conflicts.
Is peace a grand scheme for global cooperation, a means to resolve conflicts or a journey of self-discovery? Tune in to find out and be inspired by June’s incredible journey from refugee to peace warrior.
Highlights:
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The Role of Peace Intelligence in Everyday conflict-resolution
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June’s remarkable impact in her local community and beyond
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How solving for peace is the most important challenge of our time and well within reach
Timestamps
2:47 - Introducing June Benjamin
5:38 - Defining peace
13:07 - June's background, and how that led her to seek peace
21:13 - Finding purpose in pain
28:24 - Collective peace building
42:41 - The role of spiritual stories in fostering peace
51:40 - How we can apply these lessons in corporate cultures
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Biography
As a peace innovator and international attorney, June founded Peace IQ to upskill leaders and their teams to resolve conflict and build sustainable cooperation. As the founder of Peace IQ, June coined the term "peace intelligence," a multifaceted approach that integrates AI, peace data, and insights from wisdom traditions. Peace intelligence leverages the power of AI to offer strategic insights, predictive analytics, and conflict resolution tools, creating pathways to enduring peace.
June’s experience as a former refugee from the Liberian Civil War and Baha'i refugee from Iran, inspired June to pursue a J.D and M.A. in Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University where she received the Dean's award for Professional Responsibility. She then served as a visiting scholar at the Baha'i Chair for World Peace alongside her work as a human rights attorney.
She now combines her experience at the forefront of AI governance to innovate technology that helps clients turn the small daily decisions that add up to conflict to add up to peace. June partners with the Peace Innovation Institute as the Entrepreneur-In-Residence where she helped to launched the Peacebase network to foster relationships between thought leaders, industry experts, start-ups, and peace technologists to identify exciting new business opportunities in peace innovation.