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.
Forensic anthropologist Jose Pablo Baraybar has exhumed mass graves in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo. He discusses this work and his current mission, to find and identify the 15,000 missing in his native Peru.
Daniel Serwer, vice president of the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations and the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, speaks with guest host, Bridget Conley-Zilkic, about impending decisions on Kosovo's final status.
Dragan Popovic, program coordinator with the Serbian non-governmental organization, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, discusses youth involvement in human rights issues and the impending final status decision for Kosovo.
Shannon Meehan is the Director for Advocacy for the International Rescue Committee and has spent more than 17 years working in conflict zones around the world. The former Peace Corp volunteer speaks to Jerry Fowler about the mission and involment of the International Rescue Committe and her work with refugees around the world. Shannon discusses her recent trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and her mission to increase grassroots awareness in the United States regarding Congo.
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with Jerry Folwer about the current situation in Kosovo and the United Nations’ Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari's, drafted plan to resolve the region’s so called final status. Ambassador Abramowitz recently had an article in Newsweek International arguing that it is time to decide about Kosovo.
Joining the program from Belgrade, Dr. James Lyon, the Special Balkans Advisor at the International Crisis Group, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the region, where he has been working for the past twenty-five years. He explains the complexity of Kosovo’s history and how ethnic differences remain tied into this regions’ present struggle for independence.
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