Field Guide

Someone lied to me. It clarified everything.

This month's Ask Me Anything on our monthly theme, the Power of Fiction.

Mar 28 • Annelise Riles

Relating AMA: "The Only World I Know Is Collapsing"

On mourning a friend, and why tending difficult relationships is the concrete peace work we can do right now.

Feb 19 • Annelise Riles

Relating: How Friendship Across Borders Builds Peace

Your monthly peace-building skill for bridging borders and boundaries…

Feb 12 • Annelise Riles

Relating: On Being Neighbors

Jan 29 • Annelise Riles

Our Borders Ourselves—A Feminist Response to Minneapolis

As a feminist, what’s so horrifyingly surreal about “border protection” ICE agents’ killing of Renée Nicole Good is that we have seen this movie so many…

Jan 9 • Annelise Riles

Relating: Radioactive Borders

What the Fukushima Crisis Taught Me About Marriage and Global Affairs

Nov 25, 2025 • Annelise Riles

Breaking it Down: How Border Laws Shape Your Rights

If you live in Chicago, New York, LA, or many major U.S. cities, Congress says you live in a place where some constitutional rights don't apply. Here's…

Oct 30, 2025 • Annelise Riles

Relating: Kinship as Diplomacy from Medieval to Modern Times

A recording from Annelise Riles and 15thCenturyFeminist's live video

Oct 23, 2025 • Annelise Riles and 15thCenturyFeminist

57:26

Learning: I should have known my father was a spy.

I should have known my father was a spy.

Oct 16, 2025 • Annelise Riles

Relating: How Feminist Solidarity Builds Peace Movements

Lorissa Rinehart X Annelise Riles

Sep 25, 2025 • Annelise Riles and Lorissa Rinehart

57:37

Learning: The Coffee Shop Conversation That Changed Everything

How two YWCA volunteers in Fiji taught me more than any international lawyer or diplomat ever could

Sep 18, 2025 • Annelise Riles

Relating: The Dinner Party That Changed the World

Historian Naoko Shimazu shares how the Bandung Conference, a 1955 gathering of postcolonial leaders, reshaped the world order and offers hope for the…

Sep 11, 2025 • Annelise Riles

25:22

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