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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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12/07/07
The Impossible Mandate?
 Interview: 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.
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11/29/07
Narrating Atrocities
 Interview: James Dawes is a professor of English at Macalester College and the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. He discusses with guest host Bridget Conley-Zilkic the role of storytelling in making atrocities known to the world.
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11/22/07
Memory and Ethics
 Interview: Having spent the majority of his career teaching about the Holocaust and genocide, Claremont McKenna College Professor of Philosophy, John Roth, shares his thoughts on the ethical responsibility that memory imposes upon human beings. As discussed in "The Holocaust and the Common Good," an essay in his book, "Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau," John discusses how memory shapes our values and our choices.
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11/15/07
Amel Means “Hope”
 Interview: 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.
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11/08/07
Tents of Hope
 Interview: 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.
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11/01/07
Women for Women in Congo
 Interview: Christine Karumba, country director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, talks with Jerry Fowler about how conflict in the DRC has changed her life and how Women for Women is working to counter the shattering effects of widespread violence against women.
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10/25/07
Due Process and Denial
 Interview: Do war crimes trials help create a shared historical understanding? Historian Donald Bloxham, this year’s J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the effect of the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis on attitudes of the German public and of post-World War I trials of top Ottoman officials on attitudes of the Turkish public.
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10/18/07
Letter of the Law
 Interview: 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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10/11/07
Obstacles to Peace and Protection in Darfur
 Interview: 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.
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10/04/07
Perpetrators at Play
 Interview: 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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9/27/07
From Sparta to Darfur: A Long History of Genocide
 Interview: 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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9/20/07
Darfur’s Defender
 Interview: 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.
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9/13/07
Like Father, Like Daughter
 Interview: Jane Wells, discusses her experience as a producer of the film, The Devil Came on Horseback, and that of her father, Sidney Bernstein, who documented the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of WWII.
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9/06/07
Man on a Mission
 Interview: Brian Steidle, a former Marine, served as an unarmed military observer and a United States representative to the African Union where he took photographs documenting the atrocities of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. He recently published a book about his experiences in Darfur called A Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to a Genocide in Darfur and featured in the documentary of the same title. Brian speaks to Jerry Fowler about his experience in Darfur and his mission to bring awareness through multimedia.
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8/30/07
A Journey of Hard Work and Dedication
 Interview: 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.
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