Arn Chorn-Pond (born 1966) is a Cambodian musician, human rights activist, and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime.

[18] During his initial months in the US, Arn Chorn-Pond experienced difficulties as one of the first non-white students to attend White Mountains Regional High School.

[19] He graduated from Gould Academy in Maine in 1985,[15] attended Northfield Mount Hermon School[20] and attended Brown University for two years before withdrawing to co-found Children of War, an organization dedicated to help young people to overcome suffering from war and other traumas such as child abuse, poverty, racism and divorce.

From its inception in 1984 through 1988, Children of War trained a core leadership group of 150 young people representing twenty-one countries.

[21] In 1992 Chorn-Pond received a bachelor's degree in political science from Providence College[22] and in 2007 the school awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humanitarian Service .

The organization's original mission was to revive the endangered traditional performing arts in Cambodia by locating former masters or trained professional musicians and helping them to pass on their skills and knowledge to the next generation.

In May 2013, the initial crowdfunding campaign raised $36,000 in 35 days from 362 supporters in 19 countries, which was used to pay for the bus and multiple tours with performances in every Cambodian province until 2018.

[6] In October 2008, he was invited by the Spurlock Museum and the Asian Educational Media Service Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine The 2007 opera "Where Elephants Weep", composed by Khmer musician Him Sophy with a libretto by Catherine Filloux, is loosely inspired by the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.

An accomplished flautist, Arn Chorn-Pond is credited with teaching Ron Korb to play the Khloy (the Cambodian bamboo flute) in traditional Khmer style.

[39][40] In 2001 Chorn-Pond performed on stage in Peter Gabriel's Tribute and Homage for Harbourfront Centre's "World Leaders" hosted by Laurie Brown, sharing the stage with Peter Gabriel, Jane Siberry, Tia Carrere, Ron Korb, Donald Quan, Jeff Martin, Andy Stochansky, Loreena McKennitt, Daniel Lanois and Lorraine Segato.