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A bi-weekly audio series and podcast service, hosted by Committee on Conscience Project Director Bridget Conley-Zilkic, that brings you the voices of human rights defenders, experts, advocates, and government officials. Vital voices addressing one of humanity's most vital issues. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not necessarily represent those of the Museum.

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What the Committee on Conscience Staff is Reading
A Dirty War in Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone by Lansane Gbire (Jerry Fowler).

Numbed by Numbers, by Paul Slovic. People don’t ignore mass killings because they lack compassion. Psychological research suggests it’s grim statistics themselves that paralyze us into inaction. (John Heffernan).

Joyce E. Leader's Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace, 1991-1994 (Matthew Levinger).

William A. Schabas, Genocide in International Law (Matthew Levinger).

The Answer to Darfur: How to Resolve the World’s Hottest War, by John Prendergast (Jackie Scutari).

"World’s Cruelty and Pain, Seen in an Unblinking Lens," a New York Times article about James Nachtwey (Michael Graham).

How the U.S. Can Use Strategic Diplomacy to Break the Deadlock and Protect Darfur Now, from Africa Action's Report: Leveraging New International Action on Darfur - December 14, 2006 (David Klevan).

Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster, by Millard Burr and Robert Collins (Lisa Rogoff).

The journals of small business owners in the developing world on Kiva: Loans that Change Lives. Nick Kristof's column this Tuesday focused on "do it yourself foreign aid," and highlighted this web site where individuals can make loans to small businesses, get reports on how each business is doing (and even visit and sample the business' products), and eventually be repaid on the loan.

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