We are proud to announce the completion of a film by award-winning filmmaker Ella Pugliese which spotlights participants from ICfC's Justice and History Outreach program as they recount their memories from the Khmer Rouge era. "A moving journey around Cambodia using film to confront the past," We Want (U) to Know! will be debuted in Phnom Penh on May 7. See it here one month later, hot off the press!

Please join ICfC and our International Fellows Shanti Sattler (visiting from Cambodia) and Adam Saltsman as we view clips from the film, followed by a stimulating conversation on collective memory and post-conflict transitional justice in Cambodia at the

Shanti Sattler of Eureka, California, holds a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University.  At Tufts, Shanti developed a deep interest in international conflict resolution and global reconciliation initiatives. During college she worked in Cape Town, South Africa, as a research assistant to a former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and completed a senior honors thesis on issues facing war-affected youth in Northern Uganda. Shanti has served as an advisor to several national service organizations and is a former member and co-chair of Youth Service America's National Youth Advisory Council. In 2006 she was a member of the International Student Planning Committee for the second Women as Global Leaders conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  Shanti joined the International Center for Conciliation in January 2006.  She worked for the Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and now works for the American Friends Service Committee around Southeast Asia.

Adam Saltsman holds a BA from Colby College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in his cultural anthropology major and is currently pursuing his PhD in sociology at Boston College. His research interests include marginalization and resistance among communities of forced migrants and post-conflict struggles over cultural space.  He conducted field work for these topics in Vietnam in 2004 and in Thailand in 2008.  Adam interned with Human Rights Watch in 2004 where he helped lead a youth human rights advocacy program and then again in 2008 where he conducted research in Thailand on the treatment of Burmese refugees by Thai authorities.  He has also worked with victims of human trafficking and political refugees being resettled in Austin, Texas. From December 2005 - July 2007, Adam served as a Fellow for the ICfC in Cambodia, bringing together former Khmer Rouge cadre members and survivors from the Cambodian genocide to develop conciliatory dialogue strategies.

ICfC has been working with Khmer Rouge survivors in Cambodia since 2005. In collaboration with Youth for Peace, our partner NGO, we implement a bottom-up participatory approach in Historical Conciliation and encourage villagers to develop forward-looking actionable goals.  While the recently formed Khmer Rouge Tribunal has begun conducting trials of the perpetrators, the stories of the majority of Cambodians in the countryside are not being heard.   ICfC empowers survivors in the villages to "unclog" the mental arteries of painful memories and facilitates a dialogue process to communicate about their own past with the younger generation.