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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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7/17/07
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Laws Without Justice: An Assessment of Sudanese Laws Affecting Survivors of Rape, Refugees International Report. An examination of Sudanese law as it relates to rape and a series of recommendations of change in an effort to stop the law from marginalizing rape victims and protecting offenders. (Jackie Scutari).
SUDAN: Climate change - only one cause among many for Darfur conflict An IRIN analysis of global warming as one of many contributing factors to conflict in Darfur. (Jackie Scutari).
South Sudan: Returning Sudanese Need More Help to Restart their Lives, Refugees International Report. An exploration of challenges facing the Southern Sudanese diaspora. With the return of displaced and exiled persons to the South comes a great need for lacking resources. (John Heffernan).
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Azita Mamdouhi).
We Know Their Names by John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen. Prendergast and Thomas-Jensen bring attention to three genocidal perpetrators in Darfur who have not been held responsible for their actions by the United States government. (Elizabeth Milligan).
On Ban Ki-moon, Darfur, and Global Warming, from The Guardian Eric Reeves criticizes Ban Ki-moon's claim that the global warming is responsible for the genocide in Darfur, suggesting that such statements distract from Khartoum's own responsibility to preventable atrocities. (John Heffernan).
Responsibility to Protect (Elizabeth Milligan).
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He Rang the Alarm on Darfur , article by NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof. Kristof exposes the efforts of Roger Winter, US "hero" for Darfur. Winter, after witnessing the Clinton administration's failure to protect Rwandan civilians in 1994, worked tirelessly to call attention to atrocities in Darfur as they began. (John Heffernan)
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4/27/07
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Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg. McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and in 1933 became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. This diary shows McDonald shuttling back and forth among key political and financial authorities in the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Latin America, and the Vatican; all the time meticulously recording his insights into their thoughts and motives. Frustrated by the lack of support for his work, McDonald resigned in protest in December 1935 (David Klevan).
Burundi: Children Behind Bars Suffer Abuse, Human Rights Watch Report. Children in Burundi who find themselves in conflict with the law face serious abuses in a criminal justice system that treats them as adults (Jackie Scutari).
"The Wars of Sudan", by Alex de Waal in The Nation, March 19, 2007 (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
Darfur: Assault on Survival--A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution, by John Heffernan (Kadian Pow).
Several books I have been reading over the past couple of weeks:
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. Named one of the "Best Books of 2006" by Washington Post Book World.
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, by Peter G. Peterson.
The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- And Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright. Recent Pulitzer Prize winner in the general-nonfiction category. An interesting and informative account of the events leading up to the formation of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, looking into the personal lives of both counter-terrorism authorities in the US and founders of Jihadist ideology and Al-Qaeda.
(Max Wilson)
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4/06/07
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Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases (Matt Levinger).
Executive Summary: “Understanding Conflict and Building Peace," published by International Alert, a UK based peacebuilding organization (Jackie Scutari).
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Jerry Fowler).
Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War, by Stacy Sullivan (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
"Seeing Around Corners", by Jonathan Rauch from the April 2002 issue of The Atlantic. The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail — but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work (David Klevan).
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3/30/07
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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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3/23/07
3/09/07
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The Philosophy of Human Rights, edited by Patrick Hayden (Jerry Fowler).
Mahmood Mamdani’s article, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency” in the London Review of Books (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
"Individual and Group Identities in Genocide and Mass Killing," a chapter in Social Identity, Intergroup Conflict, and Conflict Reduction, by Ervin Staub (Jackie Scutari).
East, West, by Salman Rushdie (Jackie Scutari).
New York Times reporter, Jeffrey Gettleman, examines a different and more peaceful side of Somalia in "The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos." Meanwhile, things in Mogadishu do not seem to be getting any better (Lisa Rogoff)
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3/02/07
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The Power of the Powerless, by Vaclav Havel (Jerry Fowler).
Matthew von Unwerth, Freud’s Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk (Matthew Levinger).
In Dave Eggers' latest novel, What is the What, he tells the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from the Sudanese civil war-the bloodbath before the current Darfur bloodbath-of the 1980s and 90s (Bridget Conley-Zilkic).
Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice, by René Lemarchand. This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi. The main emphasis is on how ethnicity can be exploited to transform and mobilize the system of political discourse and ultimately invest it with the horrors and irrationality of genocidal violence (Jackie Scutari).
Sudan, in Mud Brick and Marble, by Stephanie McCrummen, highlighting the vast economic disparities within Khartoum and the rest of Sudan (Lisa Rogoff).
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