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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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Letter of the Law
October 18, 2007

Legal scholar William Schabas, director of the Irish Human Rights Centre and author of Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes, discusses the history of genocide in international law and its relationship to the overlapping concept of crime against humanity.

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Tags: History and Concept, Holocaust, Justice, Prevention

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Perpetrators at Play
October 4, 2007

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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Tags: History and Concept, Holocaust, Human Rights

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From Sparta to Darfur: A Long History of Genocide
September 27, 2007

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.

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Tags: History and Concept, Sudan

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Special Episode - Memory and Witness with Elie Wiesel
July 5, 2007

Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel discusses the importance of remembering and bearing witness.

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

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Mass Murder versus Individual Tragedy
May 24, 2007

Paul Slovic is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and a founder and President of Decision Research. He studies human judgment, decision making and risk analysis. Paul has received many distinguished awards, among one of them, the Outstanding Contribution to Science Award from the Academy of Oregon of Science in 1995. In addition, Paul has received honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of East Anglia. Paul speaks with Jerry Fowler about a case study he conducted. He explains people’s response to mass murder and genocide versus individual tragedy.

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Tags: History and Concept, Prevention, Responses, Sudan

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Naming Violence
May 17, 2007

Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaches classes on genocide, violence, human rights, and African politics. His book, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, won a prestigious award in 2006 for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. Scott speaks with Jerry Fowler, using Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) as a case study, to discuss the causes and the dynamics that must be in place to propel a situation towards genocide and mass violence.

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Tags: Cambodia, History and Concept, Prevention, Responses, Rwanda

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Listen to the People
May 3, 2007

Dr. Steven Kull, Director of the Program for International Policy Attitudes and Editor of WorldPublicOpinion.org speaks with Jerry Fowler about the recently released public opinion poll on the United Nations' Responsibility to Protect in general as well as specifically in the case of Darfur.

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Tags: Armenia, History and Concept, Prevention, Responses, Sudan

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President George W. Bush Speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 19, 2007

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about the importance of Holocaust remembrance and the urgent need for action to end genocide in Darfur. In his remarks, the President states that if the Sudanese government does not meet the demands of the international community, the United States will pursue several policy options. These include increased U.S. economic sanctions on Sudan, targeted sanctions against individuals responsible for violence in the region, and that the U.S. would propose a United Nations Security Council resolution to apply new sanctions, impose an expanded arms embargo, and prohibit Sudan's government from conducting offensive military flights over Darfur.

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Tags: History and Concept, Human Rights, Responses, Sudan

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Genocide Prevention Roadblocks
March 15, 2007

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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Tags: Bosnia, History and Concept, Justice, Prevention, Responses, Rwanda, Sudan

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The Legacy of Raphael Lemkin
March 8, 2007

Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, details the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the Jewish lawyer from Poland who coined the term genocide. He also discusses whether mass violence is different today than earlier in human existence as well as the significance of the codification since the Holocaust of international prohibitions against genocide.

This interview is the first of three that Voices on Genocide Prevention is producing in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves. Professor Bartov will participate in an online discussion on March 12th and 13th which you can join by registering here.

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Tags: History and Concept, Holocaust, Legacies, Sudan

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