From Killing Fields To Living Fields: Ridding The World Of Landmines with Heidi Kuhn

Heidi is former CNN reporter and is founder and CEO of Roots of Peace, an organization with the expressed goal to rid the world of landmines and bring the land back into productive use for the next generations. Her work has been recognized by a pantheon of global dignitaries ranging from the United Nations and the U.S. State Department to former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Stephen Mesic of Croatia, former Vice-President Al Gore, Robert Redford, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Diane Disney Miller, all of whom have publicly supported her quest to plant the roots of peace on earth. Kuhn has received the prestigious Cal Berkeley Alumni Award for Excellence and Achievement in 2002, the esteemed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award, Medal of Peace from the Mother Church of the Christian World in Jerusalem, and the Rotary International ”Service Above Self” award, plus many others for her selfless work.

She’s the CEO and founder of:

• Roots of Peace

To learn more about the work of Heidi Kuhn go to www.rootsofpeace.org.

Host: Phil Cousineau   Interview Date: 4/6/2015   Program Number: C0339

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