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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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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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10/04/07
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Archivist Becky Erbelding speaks with Jerry Fowler about an important addition to the Holocaust Museum's collection—a personal photo album with pictures chronicling the lives of SS officers and other Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off while Jews were being murdered at rates as fast as anytime during the Holocaust.
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9/13/07
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Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights from 1993 – 1998, and the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 – 2000, John Shattuck now heads the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston. In this interview, he discusses the politics of responding to genocide and the roadblocks encountered and caused by government agencies, the syndromes of past interventions gone bad, the public opinion stalemate, and the conflict resolution paradox. Mr. Shattuck concludes with ideas for bursting through these roadblocks and responding to low level conflicts before they turn into genocide.
This interview is the second of three that Voices on Genocide Prevention is producing in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves. John Shattuck will participate in an online discussion on March 19th and 20th which you can join by registering here.
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 While not much is going well in Darfur, this weekend, the major newspapers did a nice job covering the situation. New York Times Columnist, Nick Kristof, just back from the region, continues to report tirelessly on the situation. On Sunday, his powerful column addressed the problem he and so many others that report on the situation confront: readers that believe journalists should not be devoting time and coverage to far away places. Kristof addressed the complaints of one woman named Marguerite:You have other priorities, I know, and so do we all. But our indifference has already allowed Halima to be gang-raped twice and her sister murdered in the first genocide of the 21st century. So, Marguerite, look Halima in the eye, and decide if you’re willing to turn away as she is slaughtered, or how many more times you’re willing to allow her to be raped. A video of Halima’s story can be found here.
My friend John Prendergast from the International Crisis Group wrote a disturbing piece in the Outlook Section of Sunday’s Washington Post. He reasons that the Administration’s dependence on counterterrorism intelligence from Sudan has had a huge impact on the Administration’s response to the genocide in Darfur:…to address both the administration's counterterrorism and human rights goals will require overcoming policy inertia and ignorance about the nature of the Khartoum regime -- two requirements perhaps beyond the reach of Bush's current team. And then my friend Julie Flint, a longtime Sudan advocate, writes in the Washington Post about the confusion often made by the media that in Sudan, Arabs = bad guys. While the Janjaweed are drawn from Arab tribes, this is not a conflict that pits all Arabs against non Arabs:The incurious reporting that has reduced the war to a simple morality tale, an African "Lord of the Rings," equates Janjaweed with Arab, and especially Abbala. But only a minority of Darfur's 300,000 or so Abbala have joined the 20,000 to 30,000 Janjaweed. Most have refused to contribute soldiers, well aware that good relations with their non-Arab neighbors are more important than an alliance with an uncaring government hundreds of miles away. And breaking off the pages of the newspaper and the television screens, tonight the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will launch “Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?” by projecting large-scale images from Chad and Darfur onto the exterior walls of the memorial. If you can’t make it tonight, be sure to check out the webcast.
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9/07/06
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