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The Howie Severino Podcast

GMA Integrated News

Insightful conversations with veteran journalist, Howie Severino. Winner of the 2023 Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Educational Program.

318 - Peace negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer on finding common ground between enemies [VIDEO]
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  • 318 - Peace negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer on finding common ground between enemies [VIDEO]

    Retired UP professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for shepherding a peace deal between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, recognizing her as “the first female Chief Negotiator in the world to sign a final peace accord with a rebel group.”


    Ferrer explains how she remained focused despite the Mamasapano massacre in 2015 which nearly derailed the peace process. She shares insights on how to get opposing forces to talk seriously about peace, referring also to ongoing conflicts in the Philippines and the Middle East.


    She recalls the lessons of growing up with a famous lawyer-father, Antonio Coronel, who had clients and friends on the opposite side of the political fence as his activist-children.

    Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 51min
  • 317 - Why are scientific names important to know? Nature storyteller Celine Murillo explains

    “Nose bleed” could be one reaction of those who hear Celine Murillo on her vlog constantly identify plants and animals by their scientific names aside from their common or local names.

     

    But she stresses that having nose-bleed knowledge is part of knowing your environment and can even save your life.

     

    Part of that essential knowledge is why native tree species should be planted and not foreign species such as the mahogany trees that are seen growing in many places, part of an ill-advised government reforestation program.

     

    Does she ever get tempted to call out those who do wrong to the environment? Celine shares her take on that and on her growing influence on Tiktok and elsewhere.

    Producer: Eumer Yanga

    Researcher: Jenica Villanueva

    Editor: Jayr Magtoto

    Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 22min
  • 316 - Nature storyteller Celine Murillo on her non-stop road trip

    The pandemic locked down many and made them homebodies. But in 2022, married couple Celine and Dennis Murillo left home and spent more than a year on the road, traveling around the Philippines in a camper van they called Eli. They shared their awe at the wonders of the country on YouTube before Celine began a Tiktok series on the native trees and plants they saw on their journeys.

     

    In this first part of her conversation with Howie Severino, Celine talks about the practicalities of life on the road – where did they shower and go to the toilet, did they ever feel unsafe, how did they earn a living?

     

    Solving those issues enabled her to produce unique educational content about Philippine biodiversity, including showing live specimens of colorful species depicted in monochrome on the country’s money (“Saribuhay sa Salapi”).

     

    Celine explains that focusing on the nation’s native species is part of her mission to “decolonize” the public’s view of nature.

    Producer: Eumer Yanga

    Researcher: Jenica Villanueva

    Editor: Jayr Magtoto

    Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 23min
  • 315 - MIT grad Hillary Andales on having big dreams at a young age | ICYMI

    This March, The Howie Severino Podcast celebrates National Women’s Month with extraordinary Filipinas like Hillary Dianne Andales.  In case you missed it, Hillary tells us how her love for science began at a young age.


    Catch the full episode here:

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yOw8793TDdgQpATtD6Nl4?si=38QNbX5HTFWk3zOZ_oPT

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    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 01min
  • 314 - Magsaysay Awardee Miriam Coronel-Ferrer on being a woman peace negotiator

    Then-President Noynoy Aquino took a risk when appointing a woman as peace negotiator with the male-dominated MILF.  But the decision bore fruit with the historic “comprehensive agreement” with the MILF in 2014.  

    Miriam Coronel-Ferrer talks about the cultural biases women face around the world, including the Philippines despite its high global rankings in gender equality indexes.  She explains how many Filipino women in Muslim Mindanao and elsewhere ended up in public office.  

    “The more women are able to show the world that women can do it, (biases) become less and less of a problem,” she asserts. But she adds that their struggle needs the voices of feminist men. “Men need to hear from other men.”

    Producer: Aubrey Delos Reyes Researcher: MJ Cerillo Editor: Jayr Magtoto

    Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 20min
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