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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listen to the amazing story of how a group of American students connected with a Sudanese student to build a better future.
The Museum’s Michael Graham tells us about a Congolese school he visited in June that was right on the front lines between rebel and government forces, protected by a few peacekeepers. With new rounds of fighting beginning in August, these civilians, and hundreds of thousands of others are at risk today.
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