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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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A Fond Farewell
January 31, 2008

As he prepares to take on his new role as Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition, Jerry Fowler, former Voices on Genocide Prevention host and Committee on Conscience Staff Director, reflects on his time at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Tags: History and Concept, Holocaust, Legacies, Prevention, Responses, Sudan


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Rattling the Big Cage
January 17, 2008

China has recently appeared rattled by efforts to link the upcoming Beijing Olympics to China's strong support for Sudan's genocidal government. Dream for Darfur's Jill Savitt explains why.

Tags: Human Rights, Responses, Sudan


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ENOUGH! Co-Chair John Prendergast returns to the program to provide an update on the situation in Darfur.

Tags: Humanitarian Update, Responses, Sudan


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What’s in Your Portfolio?
January 3, 2008

Adam Sterling, director of Genocide Intervention Network's Sudan Divestment Task Force, discusses the growing divestment movement, which received a boost with passage of the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (SADA).

Tags: Responses, Sudan


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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.

Tags: Prevention, Responses, Rwanda, Sudan


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Amel Means “Hope”
November 15, 2007

Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed Abdallah, medical director of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Darfur, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current situation on the ground in Darfur. He is visiting the United States to receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Update, Sudan


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Tents of Hope
November 8, 2007

Darfur activist Tim Nonn discusses his latest national campaign, "Tents of Hope," and the challenge of maintaining hope and bearing witness in the face of genocide.

Tags: Justice, Responses, Sudan


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Sudan analyst Eric Reeves, author of A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide, returns to Voices on Genocide Prevention to give his perspective on the current situation in Darfur.

Tags: Humanitarian Update, Responses, Sudan


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Ben Kiernan is the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History. Ben talks to Jerry Fowler about his new book, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur and how genocide, in practice, is not a recent phenomenon.

Tags: History and Concept, Sudan


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Darfur’s Defender
September 20, 2007

Mossaad Mohamed Ali, a lawyer, an environmentalist and a human rights defender based in Nyala, South Darfur, is the coordinator of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. In an interview with Jerry Fowler, Mossaad talks about his involvement to provide legal advice and representation to hundreds facing human rights violations in Darfur and the situation there as it exists today.

Tags: Human Rights, Sudan


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