This week's show will feature: Robert Watts & Robin Lim

Robert Watts was recently named as the Interim Executive Director of Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which will examine and make recommendations with respect to the Indian Residential School era and its legacy. Most recently Bob served as the Chief of Staff to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine, where he was a member of the team that negotiated the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canada’s history.

A former Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of Canada, Bob is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Fellow at the Harvard Law School where he researched and lectured on the role culture plays in conflict. Bob is also a Fellow at the European Institute for Community Based Conflict Resolution. Bob was a senior associate with the Consensus Building Institute, Cambridge Mass., and a governor of the Ridgewood Foundation for Community Based
Conflict Resolution, and has worked as a practitioner and trainer in both negotiations and conflict resolution. Bob has taught, debated and lectured at a number of universities in Canada. Bob is married, has three wonderful daughters and four grandsons. Bob is from the Mohawk and Ojibway Nations and resides at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario.

Ms. Robin Lim is the executive director of Yayasan Bumi Sehat, the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation, based in Bali, Indonesia and the Medical director of the Bumi Sehat Tsunami Relief clinic in Indonesia. She operates two general health and maternal /child survival clinics, one in Aceh, the other in Ubud. The clinics deliver approximately 500 babies per year. She also operates a youth center in Bali. In 2006, Ms. Lim was awarded the Alexander Langer International Peace Award.