S 02 | Ep 2 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oleksandra Matviichuk : How One Person Can Change the World Oleksandra Matviichuk leads the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties , a human rights organization she helped build over 15 years , and the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize . Her database now holds more than 80 , 000 documented episodes of war crimes , each one a story of a real person and a real family . She does not talk about these numbers in the abstract . She talks about what it means to document them , to carry them , and to keep going anyway . In this episode Oleksandra reflects on the tension Ukraine faces between fighting a war and simultaneously building the democratic institutions the war is being fought to protect . And she makes a clear - eyed argument that what is happening in Ukraine is not a bilateral conflict between two countries but a collision between two systems , one built on human rights and accountability , the other on control and repression .