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Podcasts presented by the Embassy of the United States of America, Wellington, New Zealand covering U.S. - New Zealand Relations, trade, climate change, environment, International Property Rights, security issues, and audio.videos from the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa - David Huebner. Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.html
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November 17, 2011 - Want to study in the U.S.? Find out more fro, Alan Cerveny | This week, for the 12th Annual International Education Week, the US Embassy will be contributing to global education efforts with a list of its own activities. To aid in these endeavors, Alan Cerveny was invited to Wellington. Alan was Director of Admissions for James Madison University in Virginia and the University of Kansas before taking his current position in 2002. His knowledge of the US higher education system is, to say the least, impressive. This podcast contains information useful to students and their parents who are interested in studying in the US but don't know how to begin. It gives a timeline and explains what some of the important factors are when choosing a university. It walks through the admissions process, including undergraduate and post-graduate levels. http://newzealand.usembassy.gov Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 09, 2011 - The 12 month Travel and Work Program for students and recent Grads | U.S. Consul Dana Deree gave a talk on the 12 Month Work and Travel program for students and recent grads. It is open to New Zealand and Australian students, and recent graduates. It allows up to one year of work and travel in the U.S. The podcast includes Dana's talk as well as a questions and answers session. http://newzealand.usembassy.gov Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 02, 2011 - Smart Justice, Judge Peggy Fulton Hora | Judge Peggy Fulton Hora retired from the California Superior Court after serving 21 years. She had a criminal assignment that included presiding over the Drug Treatment Court. She is a former dean of the B E Witkin Judicial College of California and has been on the faculty of the US National Judicial College for 17 years. Judge Hora is a Senior Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute, and Judicial Outreach Liaison for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Judge Hora has been instrumental in building the problem-solving courts movement. Her work in this area, informed by therapeutic jurisprudence, focuses on the improvement of justice throughout the world.She has lectured nationally and internationally and has written extensively on justice issues. The appellate court and over 100 journals and law reviews have cited her work. She was the 2009-2010 Thinker in Residence appointed by the Premier of South Australia. She advised the government on justice issues. Her latest article, 'Courting New Solutions Using Problem-Solving Justice: Key Components, Guiding Principles, Strategies, Responses, Models, Approaches, Blueprints and Tool Kits', will be published in the Chapman Law Review in 2011. It's all about Smart Justice - a range of new ideas and approaches on how the justice system could work differently. These include therapeutic jurisprudence and restorative justice. "We have to be smart on crime and spend our dwindling dollars wisely on justice initiatives." "Incarceration does nothing to reduce reoffending for many non-violent offenders, who could be better managed through court-supervised treatment and community corrections." Judge Peggy Fulton Hora http://newzealand.usembassy.gov Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 28, 2011 - Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in Wellington, New Zealand | This week we are very fortunate to have with us my colleague Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. The Ambassador is in town discussing with our Kiwi counterparts current global hot spots and certain joint international efforts. Appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate, Ambassador Rapp assumed his duties on September 8, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served for more than two years as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, leading the prosecutions of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and other persons implicated in the atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone. During his tenure, his office achieved historic first convictions for sexual slavery and forced marriage as crimes against humanity. He also successfully prosecuted attacks on peacekeepers and recruitment and use of child soldiers as violations of international humanitarian law. Read Blog Post here: http://blogs.newzealand.usembassy.gov/ambassador/2011/01/ambassador-rapp-in-town/ http://newzealand.usembassy.gov Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 10, 2010 - Farah Pandith in New Zealand - Engaging Muslim Youth with Social Media | December 10, 2010. Farah Pandith - Special Repersentative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State - speaks about her job, the use of social media for engagement, and a message to Muslim youth around the world. Farah Pandith also spoke in Wellington on 'Muslim Engagement in the 21st Century'. You can view the video here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11343902 More about Farah Pandith: Farah Pandith was appointed Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009. Her office is responsible for executing Secretary Clinton's vision for engagement with Muslims around the world on a people-to-people and organizational level. She reports directly to the Secretary of State. Prior to this appointment, she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In this role she was focused on Muslim communities in Europe where she was responsible for policy oversight for integration, democracy, and Islam in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. She also worked on issues relating to countering violent Islamic extremism. [read more at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/125492.htm View photos of her New zealand visit here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/us_embassy_newzealand/sets/72157625566742618/ http://newzealand.usembassy.gov Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 12/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 14, 2010 - Edward Gresser - The 2010 Elections: A Foreign Policy Non-Debate? | Joining the DLC after eight years at the Progressive Policy Institute, Edward Gresser was appointed President on March 30, 2010, and directs the DLC's events and policy development. He also serves as Senior Fellow and Director of Trade and Global Markets. One of the country's best-respected trade and global-economy experts, his major research focus includes economic relations between the west and the Muslim world; East Asian integration and American trade relations with China; and the U.S. tariff system and its effects on low-income American shoppers and development prospects in poor countries. Mr. Gresser also created the widely praised "Trade Fact of the Week." His research has been cited by leaders of the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF and other institutions, and covered by major publications and news outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Far Eastern Economic Review. His first book, Freedom From Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy, was published in November 2007. Before joining PPI in 2001, Mr. Gresser served as Policy Advisor to U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, from April 1998 through the close of the Clinton Administration. While there he was the USTR's principal policy advisor, speechwriter and research aide. In three years, Mr. Gresser twice received USTR's prestigious "Special Achievement Award," first for contribution to passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act and Caribbean Basin Initiative enhancement, and then for accomplishment in the negotiation of China's WTO accession agreement and passage of permanent Normal Trade Relations. Earlier, as Legislative Assistant and then Policy Director for Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Gresser was responsible for staff work on trade foreign policy, with particular focus on a policy of engagement in China. Before joining Baucus' staff, Mr. Gresser also worked as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts. Mr. Gresser graduated from Stanford University with Distinction in Political Science in 1984. He earned a Master's Degree from Columbia University is an Advisory Board Member for the Trade, Aid and Security Coalition (http://www.tascglobal.org/), an informal Advocacy Advisor for the Thai Alliance in the USA (http://taausa.org/), and a board member of the Washington International Trade Association (www.wita.org). He teaches a graduate course on trade policy at Johns Hopkins University. Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.htm | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 23, 2010 - William Chafe - Obama and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement | William Chafe spoke at U.S. Embassy Wellington on September 23, 2010, on the expectations associated with the Obama presidency and the challenges he faces in trying to realize those expectations. He spoke of the dramatic changes in human rights in America that have occurred in the past 50 years, but also the degree to which we (and the President) have generated expectations that are hard to achieve. William Chafe was awarded the Organization of American Historians' (OAH) Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award, given annually to an individual whose contributions have significantly enriched an understanding and appreciation of American history, in April 2010. "To list his distinguished publications is to follow a path that leads through the changing contours of 20th century American history. He has been a path-breaking scholar, one of the few who can write both brilliant monographs and critical and influential syntheses," according to a statement from the organization. "His The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970 and his Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom, marked both his debut as a scholar of incredible range and established one of the great and timely themes of his scholarship: race and gender equality." The organization also noted Chafe's writings and their use in college classrooms, including "The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War Two" and most recently, "The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890-2009." A leader in the profession, Chafe has also helped develop OAH's Leadership Advisory Council, of which he is currently the co-chair. "I can't say how much this award means to me," Chafe said. "I care deeply about the community of American historians, and how important it is for us to represent the diversity of our past and seek full inclusion of all Americans in the narrative of our country's quest to realize its ideals." See also: http://ussc.edu.au/people/william-chafe Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.html | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 14, 2010 - Joseph Cirincione - The Policy and Politics of the New U.S. Nuclear Security Agenda | September 14, 2010 — Joseph Cirincione joined Ploughshares Fund as president in March 2008. He is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His previous books include two editions of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (2005 and 2002), and previous reports include Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (co-author, March 2005) and WMD in Iraq (co-author, January 2004). He is the author of over 200 articles on defense issues, the producer of DVDs on proliferation, former publisher of the comprehensive proliferation website, Proliferation News, and a frequent media commentator. In the past two years has delivered over 150 speeches around the world and appeared in the 2006 award-winning documentary, Why We Fight. Cirincione is an expert advisor to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, chaired by former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and former Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, headed by former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO). He is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of Science from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Please check the U.S. Embassy Social Media Privacy and Disclaimer (Terms and Conditions) at: http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/social_media_disclaimer.html | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 8 Episodes |
- Free
- Category: News & Politics
- Language: English
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