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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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1/11/07
The Central African Republic: An Unknown Conflict
 Interview: Sayre Nyce, Congressional Advocate at Refugees International, traveled to the Central African Republic (CAR) in late 2006 to evaluate humanitarian conditions in northwest CAR and refugees in southern Chad. She talks with Jerry Fowler about the conditions of life, political tensions, the role of ethnicity in CAR, and the exacerbated violence in the country as a result of the conflict in Darfur.
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Filed under: Central African Republic, Chad, Darfur, Human Rights, Interview, United Nations
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1/04/07
Post Conflict Reconstruction: A Training Program
 Interview: Howard Wolpe, Director of the Africa Program and Leadership Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, speaks with Bridget Conley-Zilkic about the a post conflict training program he has instituted in Burundi, and plans to continue with in Congo and Liberia. By working with both political leaders and civil society, Howard believes this program will create lasting peace and stability in areas of past and current conflict.
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Filed under: Burundi, Congo, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview, Liberia
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12/28/06
Promoting Human Rights Inside of Darfur
 Interview: Human rights advocate for Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO), Adeeb Yousif, speaks with Bridget-Conley-Zilkic about his work in Darfur, the changes that have taken place since he began working with SUDO, and what he believes are the next steps toward peace. He specifically focuses on uniting the rebel groups to find a lasting political solution to the conflict.
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Filed under: Darfur, Genocide, Interview, South Sudan
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12/21/06
Justice for Darfur?
 Interview: Having recently reported to the Security Council about the International Criminal Court's progress on the Darfur case, Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo explores the challenges he faces with this investigation and the possibility of extending the investigations into Chad. He also discusses where the Court stands in the cases of Congo and Uganda, and shares his thoughts on the death of Augusto Pinochet.
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Filed under: Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, ICC, Interview, South Sudan, United Nations
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12/14/06
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 new 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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Filed under: Genocide, Holocaust, Human Rights, Interview
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12/07/06
Global Activism for Darfur
 Interview: Co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston as well as a pediatrician at Boston South End Community Health Center, Gloria White-Hammond returns to Voices on Genocide Prevention. Having recently returned from Southern Sudan, she discusses the fragile humanitarian situation in the South as well as some of her new initiatives for Darfur such as "Judgment on Genocide," a citizen tribunal that put Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on trial, a Global Day for Darfur and a conference of Sudanese women.
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Filed under: Darfur, Human Rights, Interview, South Sudan
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11/30/06
Today in Chad
 Interview: News anchor for NBC's Today Show, Ann Curry, recently returned from her second trip to the Chad-Sudan border. She speaks with Jerry Fowler about her trip to the region, the deteriorating situation and the brave women she met there. Ann also highlights the importance of public response, noting that the more emails and feedback a story receives and the more the public cares about a story such as Darfur, the more likely the outlet is to continue covering the region.
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Filed under: Chad, Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview
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11/23/06
Who Will Lead the Way?
 Interview: Smith College English Professor and widely read Sudan analyst, Eric Reeves, returns to the program to discuss the deterioration of the genocide in Darfur and its spillover into Chad. With new reports of cross-border attacks, more humanitarian aid groups pulling out, and the situation rapidly worsening, Eric reports that the new agreement on a hybrid force is even more disheartening. With no concrete numbers in place and an unclear command structure, it seems that Khartoum has once again succeeded in using diplomacy to achieve its goals.
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Filed under: Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview, United Nations
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11/16/06
Our Walls Bear Witness
 Interview: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will project wall-sized images of the genocide in Darfur onto its facade every night during Thanksgiving week, marking the first time the national memorial's exterior will be used to highlight contemporary genocide. The photographs are drawn from the work of some of the world's premier photojournalists, including VoGP guest, Ron Haviv. Ron discusses the challenges he faces as a crisis photographer, what brought him to Darfur and his work in the Balkans.
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Filed under: Chad, Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, Interview
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11/09/06
Eastern Chad: A Spillover of Violence from Darfur
 Interview: Human Rights Watch researcher, Leslie Lefkow, discusses the escalating violence in Eastern Chad and its direct connection with the fighting in Darfur. The Sudanese government's support of the Chadian rebels and the Chadian government's support of the Darfur rebels have led to cross border attacks, and once again, it is the civilian population that suffers.
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11/02/06
Darfur Update from President Bush’s Special Envoy to Sudan
 Interview: Andrew Natsios, President Bush's newly appointed Special Envoy to Sudan, presents a hopeful outlook on the situation in Darfur, and throughout Sudan. Special Envoy Natsios claims that in his talks with the government in Khartoum, officials stated that Sudan may be willing to accept troops from North Africa and other Muslim countries, to allow logistic and planning supplementation from the United Nations, and to make amendmendments to the Darfur Peace Agreement to broaden its appeal to all parties. He shared his opinions and findings from his most recent trip to Darfur with President Bush this past week.
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Filed under: Darfur, Genocide, Interview, South Sudan, United Nations
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10/26/06
Election Aftermath in the Democratic Republic of Congo
 Interview: Anneke Van Woudenberg, a Senior Researcher for Human Rights Watch, discusses the runoff elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the effect they have had on the human rights situation in the region. She reports that the DRC's democratic future remains ominous and the international community must stay engaged.
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Filed under: Congo, Human Rights, Interview, United Nations
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10/19/06
Three Regions Critical to Sudan’s Peace and Stability
 Interview: Jerry Fowler speaks with Jason Matus, a development expert who first started working in Sudan in 1994. Focusing on the 2005 peace agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the Southern rebel group, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Jason explores the significance and progress of three regions--Abyei, the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile--in implementing the agreement.
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Filed under: Darfur, Eastern Sudan, Human Rights, Interview
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10/12/06
Lessons from the Armenian Genocide and America’s Response
 Interview: Peter Balakian, Professor of English at Colgate University, is author of the best-selling book, "Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response." He discusses the grassroots movement to end the genocide, the media's coverage of the events, the political responses, and the relevance it has to the crises our world faces today.
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10/05/06
Run for Congo Women
 Interview: After learning about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and realizing how little others knew about it, Lisa Shannon had to take action. Lisa teamed up with Women for Women International and created Run for Congo Women, a simple and concrete way citizens around the world can raise awareness and funds for women living in war-torn Congo. Last year, she did a lone, thirty mile run, raising $28,000; this year she has organized runs across the world raising thousands of dollars for women in the Congo.
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