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Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast

A monthly 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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My Neighbor, My Killer: Rwanda’s gacaca process
May 14, 2009

Award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion discusses the three short films and one feature-length film she has produced and directed on a community-based justice process in Rwanda called gacaca. Her films present an intimate view of how Rwandans are living together after the genocide.

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Tags: Responses, Rwanda

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STAND-ing up against genocide
April 30, 2009

Across the country and around the world, students with STAND, an anti-genocide coalition, are making their voices heard. Learn what they've been doing this Spring and how the organization remains strong from current student director, Nick Gaw.

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Tags: Sudan

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In honor of Holocaust Days of Remembrance
April 16, 2009

In honor of next week's commemoration of the Holocaust, we are returning to an episode with Leo Melamed, who fled Nazi-occupied Poland as a child. He speaks about why he, as a survivor, feels that preventing and responding to genocide today is a critical part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's mandate.

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Tags: Holocaust, Legacies, Refugees, Responses

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A people’s view of peace in Burundi
April 2, 2009

After 12 years of civil war marked by atrocities against civilians, what does peace mean for the people of Burundi? Peter Uvin, author of Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi, discusses what Burundians across the country told him about their hopes for the future and their views of each other and the state.

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Tags: Burundi, Human Rights, Legacies

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An international justice skeptic
March 19, 2009

Adam Smith, who comes from a family of Holocaust survivors and trained as an international lawyer, discusses his book After Genocide: Bringing the Devil to Justice. The book is critical of the current system of international justice.

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Tags: Bosnia, Justice, Responses, Rwanda

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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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