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Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast

A monthly 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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The courage to forgive and to bring hope
November 27, 2008

In 1998, Rose Mapendo was swept up in the ethnic battles inside Democratic Republic of Congo and sent to what she describes as a death camp. Despite enormous suffering and loss, she found the courage to forgive her jailors and became the inspiration for a new organization, Mapendo International, that provides emergency help to refugees.

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Tags: Burundi, DR Congo, Refugees, Responses, Rwanda

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Ripples of Genocide: An Update on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Part Two
October 2, 2008

In a special two–part podcast, Colin Thomas-Jensen and Candice Knezevic of the Enough Project update the issues in the Museum's online exhibit, Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo (2003). Part one focuses on the situation on the ground, and Part Two explores regional and international responses.

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Tags: DR Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Humanitarian Update, Responses, Rwanda

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Ripples of Genocide: An Update on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Part One
September 18, 2008

In the first episode of a special two–part podcast, Colin Thomas-Jensen and Candice Knezevic of the Enough Project update the issues in the Museum's online exhibit, Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo (2003). Part one focuses on the situation on the ground, and Part Two explores regional and international responses.

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Tags: DR Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Humanitarian Update, Responses, Rwanda

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Arresting a President?
July 24, 2008

International law expert William Schabas discusses the decision of the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court to request an arrest warrant for President Bashir of Sudan. The Sudanese president is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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Tags: Bosnia, DR Congo, Holocaust, Justice, Rwanda, Sudan

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Women changing Rwanda’s future
May 1, 2008

Elizabeth Powley with the Initiative for Inclusive Security discusses how women are playing leadership roles and changing the political landscape in Rwanda.

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Tags: Gender-Based Violence, Legacies, Responses, Rwanda

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The impact of the Rwandan genocide on Congo
March 6, 2008

Alison des Forges, senior advisor to the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, was one of the few people drawing attention to the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Here she discusses the impact that event continues to have on its neighboring country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Tags: DR Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Legacies, Rwanda

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The Impossible Mandate?
December 7, 2007

Victoria Holt is senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center and one of the five Expert Group leads for the Genocide Prevention Task Force, jointly convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the United States Institute of Peace and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In this interview, she discusses the challenges that peacekeeping forces have faced in genocidal situations, and what that implies for the hybrid UN-AU force in Darfur and for the future.

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Tags: Prevention, Responses, Rwanda, Sudan

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Narrating Atrocities
November 29, 2007

James Dawes is a professor of English at Macalester College and the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. He discusses with guest host Bridget Conley-Zilkic the role of storytelling in making atrocities known to the world.

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Tags: Human Rights, Responses, Rwanda

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Women for Women in Congo
November 1, 2007

Christine Karumba, country director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, talks with Jerry Fowler about how conflict in the DRC has changed her life and how Women for Women is working to counter the shattering effects of widespread violence against women.

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Tags: DR Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Rwanda

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Due Process and Denial
October 25, 2007

Do war crimes trials help create a shared historical understanding? Historian Donald Bloxham, this year’s J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the effect of the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis on attitudes of the German public and of post-World War I trials of top Ottoman officials on attitudes of the Turkish public.

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Tags: History and Concept, Holocaust, Justice, Legacies, Rwanda

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