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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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Wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity
March 5, 2009

On March 4, 2009, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir. Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, formerly a judge and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, discusses the significance of the ICC’s decision.

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Tags: Justice, Responses, Sudan

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Save Darfur in 2009
February 19, 2009

Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition, provides an overview of what international activists have done on Darfur and what issues they are currently focusing on.

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Tags: Humanitarian Update, Refugees, Responses, Sudan

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Gender-based violence and genocide
February 5, 2009

Kelly Askin discusses the increasing attention paid to gender-based violence in genocidal situations. Askin is the Senior legal officer with the International Justice program at Open Society Justice Initiative.

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Tags: Bosnia, DR Congo, Gender-Based Violence, Justice, Rwanda

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Why Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement matters
January 22, 2009

Sudan analyst Eddie Thomas discusses the vision behind Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and why it remains central to the country's future. Thomas is the author of a new report from Chatham House, "Against the Gathering Storm: Securing Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement."

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Tags: Sudan

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Uncovering the evidence
January 8, 2009

Forensic anthropologist Jose Pablo Baraybar has exhumed mass graves in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo. He discusses this work and his current mission, to find and identify the 15,000 missing in his native Peru.

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Tags: Bosnia, Human Rights, Kosovo, Legacies, Rwanda

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A place where tears are dried
December 25, 2008

Adapting an Israeli model for helping orphans, Anne Heyman is leading efforts to create a youth village for Rwandan orphans. She discusses the inspiration for the project and how she has managed to make it a reality.

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Tags: Gender-Based Violence, Holocaust, Legacies, Responses, Rwanda

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A blueprint for improving U.S. government response to threats of genocide and mass atrocities
December 11, 2008

The Museum’s John Heffernan and U.S. Institute of Peace’s Lawrence Woocher discuss the newly released report of the Genocide Prevention Task Force. The Task Force was convened by the Museum, USIP and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

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Tags: Holocaust, Human Rights, Justice, Responses, Rwanda, Sudan

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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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Update from a Darfurian human rights activist
November 13, 2008

Adeeb Yousif is from Darfur, Sudan and has worked to document the genocide there. He first spoke with us in 2006. Now he returns to tell us about Darfur's current most pressing issues.

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Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Update, Refugees, Sudan

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Changing the world, student to student
October 30, 2008

Listen to the amazing story of how a group of American students connected with a Sudanese student to build a better future.

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Tags: Refugees, Responses, Sudan

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