{"id":183870,"date":"2025-12-03T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=183870"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:48:30","slug":"iss-professor-hilhorst-presents-podcast-with-dutch-celebrities-about-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/12\/03\/iss-professor-hilhorst-presents-podcast-with-dutch-celebrities-about-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS-professor Hilhorst presents podcast with Dutch celebrities about conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These days, every influencer has their own podcast, whereas professors have so far been few and far between in the genre. Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction Thea Hilhorst now brings change to that. Together with Denker der Nederlanden<\/em> David Van Reybrouck, she is presenting Caf\u00e9 Conflict from Wednesday onwards, a podcast by Erasmus University and AD about major but above all small conflicts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/article>

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Thea Hilhorst with David Van Reybrouck and guest Claudia de Breij.<\/span><\/p>

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Anyone expecting these two thinkers to deliver an abstract, theoretical podcast is mistaken: in each episode the presenting duo welcome a well-known Dutch guest. In the first episode<\/a> this is comedian Claudia de Breij. Also appearing are\u00a0Rijdende Rechter <\/em>(TV judge, ed.) John Reid, former hockey player Jacques Brinkman, presenter Olcay Gulsen, tech journalist Alexander Kl\u00f6pping and comedian Tim Fransen.<\/p>\n

Silent compartment<\/h2>

The common thread running through the podcast is everyday conflicts. With Tim Fransen, for example, the discussion is about simmering conflicts in the silent compartment, and with John Reid about neighbour disputes. How small conflicts arise and how they can escalate is not fundamentally different from international conflicts, Hilhorst explains. \u201cIn the episode about neighbour disputes, for example, we draw parallels with the truth commission in South Africa.\u201d In a column in the newspaper, Hilhorst and Van Reybrouck then extend the line to the bigger issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to appeal to a broader audience than I normally reach. People who do not naturally gravitate towards humanitarian themes. As a result, my subject now runs through the podcast rather than taking centre stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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