#040 We need new stories | Ian D. Quick
For this wrap-up episode we've switched sides of the microphone to interview our host for the last 39 episodes, Ian Quick. (With thanks to Sam Meikle ...
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An oral history of public service in the hardest times. In each episode I interview a practitioner doing impactful work in the midst of serious violence and political turmoil. We talk through what their day looks like, how they got started, career highs and lows, and what keeps them moving forward over the long haul.
#039 Doing conflict research the right way | Judith Verweijen
"The only ethical way of doing this research is to stay involved in a profound manner, & to maintain these friendships and relationships." Judith Verw...
#038 Portrait of a humanitarian country director | Salma Ben Aissa Braham
Salma Ben Aissa Braham is a Tunisian humanitarian professional, and currently Country Director for the IRC in the Central African Republic. She spent ...
#037 Thinking fast & slow in humanitarian responses | Josep Zapater
Josep is a career humanitarian who's spent 20+ years with UNHCR working with refugees, and on forced displacement. But alongside there's something a b...
#036 Changing the development sector from the inside & the outside | Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou is Director of the Politics and Governance Programme at the Overseas Development Institute. Past work has included academic pos...
#035 Hard lessons in making public policy | Polly Mackenzie
Polly Mackenzie is CEO at Demos, a cross-party think tank in the United Kingdom. She's also worked at the centre of government within the 2010-15 coal...
#034 Amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice | Dao X Tran
Dao X. Tran is Managing Editor of Voice of Witness, which develops oral histories and education programs to amplify the voices of people impacted by i...
#033 Trauma-informed peacebuilding in Kenyan communities | Onyango Otieno & Kaltuma Noorow
Kumekucha is a program to help people process conflict and trauma, and to craft new narratives for themselves. It’s running at the community level in ...
#032 Evolving humanitarian organisations to where they need to be | Kate Moger
Kate Moger is Regional Vice-President for the Great Lakes region at the International Rescue Committee. She's based in Nairobi, although currently tha...
(Bonus episode) From serial terrorism suspect to police trainer | Ahmed Famau Ahmed
(Bonus coronavirus lockdown episode) Ahmed Famau Ahmed is one of the facilitators that works with the “Healing the Uniform” initiative that we discuss...