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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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6/14/07
Part II: What To Do About Darfur
 Interview: Sudan analysts John Prendergast and Alex de Waal continue the debate about how best to resolve the conflict in Darfur.
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6/07/07
Part 1:  What to do about Darfur? A Debate between John Prendergast and Alex de Waal
 Interview: Two of the leading analysts on Sudan, John Prendergast and Alex de Waal, debate solutions to the crisis in Darfur.
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Azita Mamdouhi Jun 07, 2007 - 08:00 AM | (0) Comments | Tell-a-Friend | Permalink
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5/31/07
Borders Without Boundaries
 Interview: Award-winning actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow speaks with Jerry Fowler about her recent trip to eastern Chad and the Central African Republic, her views on the Chinese Olympics and her participation in the Fidelity Out of Sudan Campaign.
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Azita Mamdouhi May 31, 2007 - 08:51 AM | (0) Comments | Tell-a-Friend | Permalink
Filed under: Central African Republic, Chad, Genocide, Interview, Olympics
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5/24/07
Mass Murder versus Individual Tragedy
 Interview: 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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Azita Mamdouhi May 24, 2007 - 07:30 AM | (0) Comments | Tell-a-Friend | Permalink
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5/17/07
Naming Violence
 Interview: 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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Filed under: Cote D'ivoire, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview
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5/10/07
Growing up in Darfur
 Interview: Omer Ismail, co-founder of the Darfur Peace and Development organization, and native Darfurian speaks with Jerry Fowler about the social and cultural factors surrounding the conflict in Darfur. Omer highlights the move from a tolerant society to one with a high level of violence centered on group identity, the effects of global warming, and the role of the Sudanese government.
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5/03/07
Listen to the People
 Interview: 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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Max Wilson May 03, 2007 - 07:36 AM | (0) Comments | Tell-a-Friend | Permalink
Filed under: China, Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview, United Nations
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4/26/07
Plan B…Not Enough?
 Interview: Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a founder of the ENOUGH Project, responds to President George W. Bush's speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum last week where he announced several policy options the United States will pursue to stop the genocide in Darfur; what has become known as Plan B.
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4/19/07
President George W. Bush Speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 Interview: 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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4/12/07
Humanitarian Aid, Broken Promises, and an Irritated President
 Interview: Ken Bacon, President of Refugees International, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current vulnerable status of humanitarian aid efforts to Darfur, his experience with recent peace negotiations, and the effect groups like Save Darfur are having on President al-Bashir.
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4/05/07
Independence for Kosovo
 Interview: Ambassador Morton Abramowitz, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with Jerry Folwer about the current situation in Kosovo and the United Nations’ Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari's, drafted plan to resolve the region’s so called final status. Ambassador Abramowitz recently had an article in Newsweek International arguing that it is time to decide about Kosovo.
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3/29/07
Justice in the Courts
 Interview: Diane Orentlicher, professor of International Law at Washington College of Law at American University, discusses recent decisions related to impunity made in the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court and how these decisions will play out over the next few months.
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3/22/07
Advocacy and Action
 Interview: Bec Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), discusses the movement to prevent genocide in Darfur, especially in regard to student activism, and her work to build a permanent political constituency against genocide and mass atrocity . Bec highlights two of GI-Net's newest initiatives, Darfur Scores, which provides report cards for all members of Congress dependent on their level of action on the Darfur issue; and 1-800-GENOCIDE, a genocide hot-line that will connect you directly with your representative's office.

This interview is the last of three that Voices on Genocide Prevention is producing in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves. Bec Hamilton will participate in an online discussion on March 26th and 27th which you can join by registering here.
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3/15/07
Genocide Prevention Roadblocks
 Interview: 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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3/08/07
The Legacy of Raphael Lemkin
 Interview: 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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