Leadership Across Boundaries: A Four-Part Radio Series from the Salzburg Seminar

With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit public education organization, has produced a four-part series of hour-long radio programs titled “Leadership Across Boundaries.” Based on extensive interviews conducted at a groundbreaking conference of some 80 citizen leaders from 27 countries held at the Salzburg Seminar’s historic Leopoldskron Castle in Salzburg, Austria in the summer of 2003, the series profiles the work and lives of a new generation of bridge-builders emerging worldwide who are forging common cause across a variety of boundaries, including ethnicity, geography, race and religion. 

The program features the voices and stories of practical innovators in many fields of activity who are determined to address global challenges unmet by their appointed and elected officials. Each program is accompanied by a rich mix of music native to the regions of the guests. Crisply edited to a highly professional standard with voices from many nations and cultures, the series will appeal to audiences around the world. While candid about the challenges facing this new generation of citizen leaders, the series is also profoundly hopeful that their emergence heralds a new era in which “extraordinary ordinary people” take the lead in creating a more cooperative and sustainable world.

Any of the programs may be heard in full by clicking on the “Listen to program” link at the end of each program description listed below. The full, unedited conversations with each of the guests featured in the finished programs are also available for listening by clicking on the “Listen to conversation” links below. All of the programs and unedited conversations are also archived on the “World of Possibilities” website, www.aworldofpossibilities.com. For the completed programs, click on “Archives” and then “Leadership 2003.” For unedited interviews, click on “Salzburg Seminar Interviews.” The completed programs may also be downloaded for rebroadcast on radio stations worldwide or for a range of educational purposes.  The unedited interviews are not intended for broadcast. CD copies of any or all of the programs in the Leadership series are available upon request from The Mainstream Media Project, 854 Ninth Street, Suite B, Arcata, California 95521.  The entire series was aired on radio stations across the United States and on shortwave around the world during October and November 2004.

Program Themes

#1:  Bridge Builders: Leading from Between:  Wisdom worth hearing from citizen leaders worldwide who have gathered from the far reaches of the earth to transcend boundaries and forge common cause to address challenges none can handle alone.
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Full, unedited conversations with:    
Julie Cajune, Indian Education Coordinator, Ronan, Montana
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Calvin Head, Executive Director, West Holmes Community  Development Organization, Tchula, Mississippi
Victor Mkhize, Community Liaison, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Otton Solis, President, Citizens Action Party, San Jose, Costa Rica
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Freddye Webb-Pettet, Mid South Delta Initiative Coordinator, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Pine Bluff, Arkansas        
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#2:  Leading From Within: Bridging the Space Between Us:  Meet a new generation of citizen leaders emerging from outside, below and between conventional centers of power. Hear their personal stories and find out what prompts people of ordinary means but extraordinary will to take on challenges of exceptional difficulty and, in their own ways, succeed.
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Full, unedited conversations with:   
Julie Cajune, Indian Education Coordinator, School District #30,  Ronan, Montana
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Jairam Reddy, Senior Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
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Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General, Civicus, South Africa
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Claire Nelson, Operations Officer, Inter-American Development  Bank, Washington, DC
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#3:  Crossing the Great Divide: Journey from No-Man’s Land to Our Common Home:  Four stories of individuals who grew up in one culture but now live in another and who consciously work to reconcile ethnic tensions either in their homelands or their new homes. This is a border-crossing journey in the company of those building bridges rather than walls.
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Full, unedited conversations with:    
Amin Amin, Senior Project Manager, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands                                   
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Lake Sagaris, Ciudad Viva, Santiago, Chile 
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Theo Roncken, Senior Associate Fellow, Accion Andina, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Krzysztof Czyzewski, President, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
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#4:  Media as Mirror, Media as Leader:  Imagine what it would take to make our mass media into a source of awareness and connection rather than distraction and division. In the final program in this series, hear how a transformed media could contribute to a different sense of what we’re capable of doing for — and not simply to — one another.
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Full, unedited conversations with:
Shahabuddin Y. Quraishi, Director General, Doordarshan, New Delhi, India 
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Gabriela Paz y Mino, Coordinator, El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador
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Claire Nelson, Operations Officer, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC
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Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General, Civicus, South Africa
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