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Don’t miss this episode as Ian speaks to development issues of all kinds, sustainability, how to lie with statistics and the future of development.

Ian Smillie has been an international development practitioner, consultant, teacher and writer for many years. He has lived and worked in Asia and Africa, was a founder of Inter Pares and was Executive Director of CUSO. He is the author of several books, including The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World (with Larry Minear, 2004) Freedom from Want (2008) and Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade (2010). He served on a UN Security Council Expert Panel examining the relationship between diamonds and weapons in West Africa, and he helped develop the 70-government ‘Kimberley Process,’ a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds. He chairs the Board of the Diamond Development Initiative, he Co-chairs the Advisory Panel of the Office of Canada’s Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor and he is a member of the McLeod Group.

His Ottawa Citizen blogs on international development can be found at http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/author/ismillie/He received the Order of Canada in 2003.

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Listen in on Robert as he talks about his time investigating people from around the globe. His experience is as broad as it is unique. Fascinating stuff. He has some crazy stories and lessons to share as he prepares for yet another significant life changing adventure into Iraq.

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Mr. Robert Scott, the owner/operator of Paladin Resources Ltd., has more than 27 years of experience working in SE Asia. Born in Wisconsin, U.S.A. in 1951, raised on a dairy farm, he did all the things a kid can do living in the country on a farm, graduated from Belmont High School, started university studies and then was off to serve his country in the U.S. Army.

Robert previously lived in Thailand, before coming to Cambodia. Arriving in Phnom Penh in 1993, he worked first with a major trading company providing security, supporting the UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority, Cambodia) mission, operated a successful security and investigation services company and was the Managing Director of a charter airline operating from Phnom Penh.

In 2004, Mr. Scott went to Iraq and then Afghanistan, for the next seven years, undertaking security contracts in both countries; supporting United States and Coalition forces in the Global War on Terror. At the beginning of 2012, Mr. Scott returned to Cambodia to re-open Paladin Resources Ltd. and a small trading company, IMT-International Management Trust (Cambodia) Ltd.

Robert began his higher education with Pre-professional studies at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville, studying on a Nursing Scholarship, further study at the University of Alaska – Anchorage, during his service time with the United States Army, Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska for his training as an Alaska State Trooper and was conferred a Master of Science Degree in Security Management from Almeda University in 2007.

With many years of Asian experience, along with his vast knowledge and experience in the security field, Robert will continue to provide his Clients the professionalism and the results they require and demand.

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In this episode Karlee gets passionate about social change, making a difference nad how slavery is something we should not turn a blind eye towards.

Karlee Sapoznik, BAH, MA, PhD (ABD) Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, is the President and Co-Founder of the Alliance Against Modern Slavery. She works with survivors, researches and publishes works on slavery in all of its forms, human trafficking, human rights, transnational history, genocide and memory, women’s and gender history, the Holocaust and forced marriage.

Karlee has represented Canada academically and as part of anti-slavery, anti-trafficking and Holocaust research projects abroad in Sierra Leone, Mali, Italy, England, Spain, Ukraine, Israel and the United States. She has contributed to various journals and online blogs. Her book The Letters and Other Writings of Gustavus Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African): Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade was published this past winter by Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton. Sapoznik speaks across Canada about contemporary slavery and the Holocaust, and leads anti-slavery initiatives in Canada, Mali and Peru.

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Listen in as Hoda talks about her life as a film and TV producer, why math can be fun and how her new documentary, Muneeza and the Middle has changed her life and made her realize that we are all so very connected.

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Hoda Elatawi has been producing award-winning films and television in Canada and internationally for over two decades with GAPC Entertainment. Hoda’s passion for history, social issues, education, and the arts has united her with like-minded producers and writers from around the world and allowed her to work on a diverse range of television projects.

Hoda has created and produced award-winning concepts in the children’s and factual programming genres. She has collaborated with and produced for most Canadian broadcasters, with work that is also showcased internationally. From doc series to biopics, from specials to unscripted dramas, she brings a depth and unique perspective to all that she produces, working with teams across the country and around the world.

Recently, Hoda has completed production of a new award-winning children’s television series, The Prime Radicals, for TVOkids and is currently in post-production for Season 2, along with a social issue doc for the Documentary Channel-this latter will be her directorial debut.

Select Television Credits

The Great March. History Television. Nominated for two Gemini awards.

Spellz I & II. TVOntario. A live-action entertaining and educational series for kids about the secrets behind magic tricks.

The Prime Radicals. TVOntario. A live-action children’s educational math series for 6-8 year olds, seen across Canada on TVOntario, Knowledge, Access and SCN.

Oscar Peterson: Keeping the Groove Alive. Canada Broadcasting Corporation. A one-hour television documentary for CBC’s Life and Times program. Oscar Peterson’s extraordinary path to fame and acclaim was presented in this biographical documentary.

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages. Canada Broadcasting Corporation. A one-hour documentary exploring the many stages, theatrical and personal, of Plummer’s life.

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Join us for Rebecca’s take on education, breaking free from the system, why wonder matters and how to maintain an edge as an artist.

Rebecca Zak is an artist/researcher/teacher from Burlington, Ontario. She teaches at the elementary and post-secondary levels, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Education at Brock University. Her research interest lies in how creativity can be nurtured in and outside the classroom, stemming from Rebecca’s own lived experience as an artist and student in and outside the classroom.

Check out more of her work here: www.raisingcreativity.com

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Listen today as Theary talks passionately about the country she loves, Cambodia’s future and why Human rights should matter to us all. This is a compelling podcast. Don’t miss it.

Theary C. Seng is currently writing her second book, the founder of the Cambodian Center for Justice & Reconciliation, and the founding president of CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education, registered with the Ministry of Interior.  After a 2-year stint as a commercial lawyer, Theary, in March 2006, joined the Center for Social Development, a local human rights organization based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as its executive director until her removal in July 2009 by a politically-motivatedcourtinjunctive order.

Theary was born in Phnom Penh, probably in January 1971. Under the Khmer Rouge, she lived in Svay Rieng province bordering Vietnam, where the killings were most intense and where she spent five months in Boeung Rei prison. The Khmer Rouge killed both her parents. She and her surviving family trekked across the border for Thailand in Nov. 1979 and emigrated to the U.S. one year later.

Since 1995, Theary has been in Cambodia volunteering with various labor and human rights groups. In January 2004, she moved permanently to live and work in her country of birth. Of choice, home is now again Cambodia.

Theary graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (Washington, DC) with a Bachelor of Science in International Politics in 1995 and from the University of Michigan Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2000. Theary is a member of the New York Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Theary has written about her life in a book entitled Daughter of the Killing Fields (London, 2005). Theary made history when she testified as the first ECCC-recognized civil party against the pre-trial detention hearingof the most senior, surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Brother No. 2 Nuon Chea on 7 Feb. 2008, followed by other encounters in the courtroom with Khieu Samphan (whom she met for the first time in 2001 at his home in Palin), Ieng Sary and wife Ieng Thirith.

Theary is the chair of the Board of Directors of the World Bank-funded Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in the East Asia & Pacific (ANSA-EAP) located at (but independent from) the Ateneo School of Government, now an independent Foundation registered in the Philippines; a member of the Preparatory Committee and now the Governing Board of Directors for the Human Rights Resource Center for ASEAN(HRRCA)

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David Merry is a veteran comedian, television personality and host, actor, master of ceremonies, magician and certified golf professional. He has traveled the globe for the last twenty years with many versions of his 45 min. stand up comedy magic act as well as doing unbelievable sleight of hand in close up settings and corporate functions.

Since his appearances on “SCTV”, “BIZARRE” and “An Evening at the Improv”, David has been on “Open Mike with Mike Bullard”, (2 appearances), “Yuk Yuk’s the TV Show”, “The John Oakley Show”, “Cooking with Comics”, “Comedy College”, 3 episodes of “Comedy at Club 54″ including their 7th Anniversary Special, the “Komedy Kitchen”, and has just completed his own half-hour comedy special of “Comics!”, on CBC. He is a past recipient of Canada’s “Club Comic of the Year” Honors. Theater is David’s true love, playing many of Canada’s premiere stages. They include “Night of 100 Stars with Michael Burgess and Maureen Forrester at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, The Blythe Festival Theater and The Stratford Festival Theater.

David has performed on cruise ships in the Caribbean and Mediterranean and has performed in such places as St. Kitts, Bermuda, Athens, Greece, Maui, Alert (Northwest Territories), Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Tucson, Paris, France Walt Disney World, Yellowknife, Banff, Venezuela, , Malaga, Iqaluit, Queen Charlotte Islands, Key Largo, Los Cabos Mexico, Gothaab (Greenland), Whistler, Goose Bay (Labrador), Lake Tahoe (Nevada), Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Atlantic City, and Monte Carlo. He has written jokes for Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers and has been a contributing writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Besides the several TV commercials he’s done, most notably the 1050 CHUM D.J. commercial, David also appeared in a movie called Recruits.

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Join Jannes and I in Phnom Penh as she talks about MED, development and why she works in Cambodia. Jannes is honest, direct and tells it like it is. See why she has been able to make such a difference in Cambodia through her organization called Tabitha.

www.tabitha-cambodia.org

Tabitha Cambodia is a sustainable non-profit organization which was initiated, founded and established by Ms. Janne Ritskes.

Tabitha Cambodia operates with minimal overhead and running costs . All funds are used to help the poorest people in Cambodia through programmes that focus on personal and financial development.

Since 1994, Tabitha Cambodia  have reached over  half million people, working directly with over 30,000 families,  through our high impact community development programs.

Tabitha currently works in thirty seven (37)  areas within fifteen provinces (15) in Cambodia providing programs that make significant changes/ development  in the lives of the Cambodian people.

Please check out her important new project here: http://www.nokor-tep.net/

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Listen in on another once in a lifetime interviews. Conducted in the prison S-21 where Chum Mey was held prisoner in the 70’s listen as he talks about his story, justice and why he feels he was one of seven people to survive the Khmer Rouge Killing machine.

Chum Mey is one of only twelve known survivorsof the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where more than 16,000 Cambodians were sent for execution. He is currently one of two surviving members still alive. He survived two months of torture and fear in a Khmer Rouge death camp, sustained by thoughts of his pregnant wife and unborn child. His life was only spared because of his high level of competence in machine repairing for Pol Pot’s soldiers.

Marched at gunpoint into the provinces by his fleeing Khmer Rouge jailers following the Vietnamese invasion, he had a chance encounter with his wife and the young son who was born a few weeks after he was sent to the infamous Tuol Sleng prison in early 1977.

“First they shot my wife, who was marching in front with the other women,” he said. “She screamed to me, ‘Please run, they are killing me now’. I heard my son crying and then they fired again, killing him. When I sleep, I still see their faces, and every day I still think of them”.

In 2003 he appeared in the Rithy Panh documentary S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine along with Cambodian artist Vann Nath where they were reunited and revisited the former prison, now known as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. They meet their former captors – guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer – many of whom were barely teenagers during the Khmer Rouge era from 1975 to 1979.

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Bou speaks candidly about his time at S-21, forgiveness, Cambodia and revenge.

You can read more about his story here Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21

Of 17000 prisoners held and tortured in the Khmer Rouge prison Toul Sleng (S21), there are only 7 known survivors. Bou Meng is one of the survivors. He lived to tell his story thanks to his skills as a painter. In 2003, he began to paint pictures of his personal experiences during the KR regime. He has painted more than a 100 prints, many illustrating his detention and torture ayt the prison. He hopes his art will inspire the world to prevent a repeat of Cambodia’s painful past.

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