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Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast

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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A people’s view of peace in Burundi
April 2, 2009

After 12 years of civil war marked by atrocities against civilians, what does peace mean for the people of Burundi? Peter Uvin, author of Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi, discusses what Burundians across the country told him about their hopes for the future and their views of each other and the state.

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Tags: Burundi, Human Rights, Legacies

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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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Post Conflict Reconstruction: A Training Program
January 4, 2007

Howard Wolpe, Director of the Africa Program and Leadership Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, speaks with Bridget Conley-Zilkic about the a post conflict training program he has instituted in Burundi, and plans to continue with in Congo and Liberia. By working with both political leaders and civil society, Howard believes this program will create lasting peace and stability in areas of past and current conflict.

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Tags: Burundi, DR Congo, Legacies, Responses

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