In an effort to amplify voices that are often left out and give people access to geopolitical issues that might otherwise not be featured in the news, UNPO is launching its own podcast “Hidden Geopolitics”. Hidden Geopolitics launches with a foundational premise: traditional geopolitical reporting focuses overwhelmingly on states, power blocs, and leaders, but rarely on the peoples living with the consequences of those decisions, and even more rarely on their own voices. The podcast intends to provide a space for communities to present their stories independently and add their perspective to geopolitical issues.
Twice a month we will shine a spotlight on a community and invite community leaders, activists, and thinkers to explore geopolitics from their local realities. Each episode offers nuanced dialogue, first-person accounts, and historical depth over headline-chasing. Topics span territorial struggles, cultural survival, organized resistance, community resilience, and possibilities for transformative change that reveals how international power operates in practice and how people contest it with creativity and determination.
The first episode features Merce Monje Cano, Secretary General of UNPO, as she introduces listeners to the UNPO, explores the central topics of the podcast and discusses what drives her to devote her career to support unrepresented and excluded communities.
In our second episode we interview Dr. Rubina Greenwood the President of UNPO and a prominent Sindh human rights advocate. The conversation focuses on false perceptions about unrepresented communities and the struggle of responding to violent repression with peaceful resistance. We talk about the centrality of solidarity in UNPO’s work and conclude that self-determination requires the inclusion of communities as equal participants in decision-making processes.
With Hidden Geopolitics we ask listeners to pause, reconsider their assumptions, and recognize geopolitics as fundamentally about people and not just the powerful few, but the many whose stories reshape our understanding of global politics itself. To listen to the first two episodes look up “Hidden Geopolitics” on Spotify and subscribe to the podcast to be notified about all future episodes.
