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Stay up-to-date on 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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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...
In 1998, Rose Mapendo was swept up in the ethnic battles inside Democratic Republic of Congo and was sent to what she describes as a death camp. Despite enormous suffering and loss,...
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 iss
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....
The Museum teamed up with policy analyst John Prendergast and actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie to create an online exhibit, Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through...
The Museum teamed up with policy analyst John Prendergast and actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie to create an online exhibit, Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through...
Salih Osman Mahmoud has risked his life to improve the human rights situation in Sudan. A native of Darfur, he worked on human rights issues in that region before joining Parliament...
Olympic Gold winning speed skater Joey Cheek talks about why he believes the Olympic Games are more than a sporting event.
Hasan Nuhanovic's family was killed by Bosnian Serb forces when they overran the UN declared safe haven of Srebrenica in July 1995. He speaks today about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic,...
International law expert William Schabas discusses the decision of the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court to request an arrest warrant for President Bashir of Sudan. The...
When David Ngaruri Kenney fled persecution in Kenya he had no idea that his quest for asylum would takes years. He and his lawyer, Philip Schrag, co-authors of Asylum Denied: A Refugee's...
A boy of seven when the Nazi German army captured his home town of Bialystok, Poland, Leo Melamed fled with his parents, eventually coming to the U.S. Among the incredible successes...
Sudan expert, Roger Winter, has been documenting the threat and now destruction of Abyei in a series of reports published by the Enough Project. In this interview, he discusses how,...
Julie Flint, co-author with Alex de Waal of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War, discusses some of the preliminary information coming out about the Darfur rebel attack on the Sudanese...
Human Rights Watch researcher David Buchbinder analyzes the conflict in Chad and how it relates to violence across the border in Sudan.
Elizabeth Powley with the Initiative for Inclusive Security discusses how women are playing leadership roles and changing the political landscape in Rwanda.
Bob Kitchen discusses the series of mortality studies that his organization, the International Rescue Committee, has conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The most recent study...
Alex de Waal discusses recent upsurge in fighting in Darfur, how it connects to events in Chad, and what to watch for in southern Sudan.
Rebecca Feeley, a field researcher for the ENOUGH Project discusses the current situation in Congo, particularly the massive problem of gender based violence.
Rebecca Feeley, a field researcher for the ENOUGH Project discusses the current situation in Congo, particularly the massive problem of gender based violence.
Alison des Forges, senior advisor to the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, was one of the few people drawing attention to the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Here she discusses the impact...
Congolese journalist and writer, Mvemba Dizolele, joins us again to discuss the legacy of long-time ruler of then Zaire (now Congo) Mobutu Sese Seko.
Gregory Shvedov of the Caucasian Knot and International Memorial discusses the current situation in Chechnya and how violence is spreading throughout the Northern Caucasus.
As he prepares to take on his new role as Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition, Jerry Fowler, former Voices on Genocide Prevention host and Committee on Conscience Staff
China has recently appeared rattled by efforts to link the upcoming Beijing Olympics to China's strong support for Sudan's genocidal government. Dream for Darfur's Jill Savitt explains...
ENOUGH! Co-Chair John Prendergast returns to the program to provide an update on the situation in Darfur.
Adam Sterling, director of Genocide Intervention Network's Sudan Divestment Task Force, discusses the growing divestment movement, which received a boost with passage of the Sudan Accountability...
Michael Ignatieff on Raphael Lemkin and the word genocide.
Daniel Serwer, vice president of the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations and the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, speaks with guest...
Dragan Popovi, program coordinator with the Serbian non-governmental organization, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, discusses youth involvement in human rights issues and the impending...
Victoria Holt, senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, discusses the challenges that peacekeeping forces have faced in genocidal situations, and what that implies for the hybrid...
James Dawes is a professor of English at Macalester College and the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. He discusses with guest host Bridget Conley-Zilkic...
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...
Dr. Mohammed-Ahmed Abdallah, medical director of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Darfur, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current situation...
Darfur activist Tim Nonn discusses his latest national campaign, Tents of Hope, and the challenge of maintaining hope and bearing witness in the face of genocide.
Christine Karumba, country director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, talks with Jerry Fowler about how conflict in the DRC has changed her life...
Do war crimes trials help create a shared historical understanding? Historian Donald Bloxham, this year's J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial...
Legal scholar William Schabas, director of the Irish Human Rights Centre and author of Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes, discusses the history of genocide in international...
Sudan analyst Eric Reeves, author of A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide, returns to Voices on Genocide Prevention to give his perspective on the current situation...
Archivist Becky Erbelding speaks with Jerry Fowler about an important new addition to the Holocaust Museum's collection--a personal photo album with pictures chronicling the lives of...
Benedict Kiernan is the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and has been named the A. Whitney Griswold Professor
Mossaad Mohamed Ali, a lawyer, an environmentalist and a human rights defender based in Nyala, South Darfur, is the coordinator of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation...
Jane Wells, a freelance writer and a producer of the film, The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur, has traveled to Sudan, Chad, northern Uganda, Rwanda...
Brian Steidle, a former Marine, served as an unarmed military observer and a United States representative to the African Union where he took photographs documenting the atrocities of...
Shannon Meehan is the Director for Advocacy for the International Rescue Committee and has spent more than 17 years working in conflict zones around the world. The former Peace Corp...
Joey Cheek is a 2006 Olympic gold medalist speed skater. Recently, he has turned in his skates to bring an end to the crisis in Darfur Sudan through his organization Where Will We Be?....
In May 2007 filmmaker, Jen Marlowe and journalist, David Morse accompanied the southern Sudanese lost boys back to their homes. In 1987 they were forced to flee from Sudan as children...
Roger Winter is one of the leading voices on Sudan. He worked for several years as the Executive Director of the United States Committee for Refugees. In 2001, Roger became a high...
Collin Thomas-Jensen is a Policy Advisor to Enough. In an interview with Jerry Fowler, he discusses the current situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the vast contrast...
Michael Graham is the coordinator of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, which launched Crisis in Darfur, a joint effort with Google to illuminate the genocide in Darfur...
Dr. Eric Reeves is a Sudan analyst and researcher. He is also a Professor at Smith College and author of A Long Days Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide. Eric speaks with...
Dr. Gerard Prunier, is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. He joins us from his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss with Jerry Fowler his recent...
Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel discusses the importance of remembering and bearing witness.
Susan Shirk is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and Director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation....
Jill Savitt, director of the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the contradiction between Beijing hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, having chosen the slogan...
Sudan analysts John Prendergast and Alex de Waal continue the debate about how best to resolve the conflict in Darfur.
Two of the leading analysts on Sudan, John Prendergast and Alex de Waal, debate solutions to the crisis in Darfur.
Mia Farrow is an American Actress who is a Golden Globe recipient and has appeared in more than 40 films. She is known for her extensive humanitarian work as a Goodwill Ambassador...
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....
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...
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...
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
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...
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....
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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and United States Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Board Member, discusses...
Just back from Northern Uganda and Eastern Congo, John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group, returns to the program to talk with Jerry Fowler about his trip, the new ENOUGH...
Carl Wilkens, the only American known to stay in Rwanda throughout the genocide, discusses the choice he made in 1994 to remain in Kigali, the challenges Rwandans faced in resisting...
As debate stirs over China hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum historian Susan Bachrach discusses a similar controversy that took place when Nazi Germany
A pattern of cross-border attacks continues to threaten civilians on the border of Eastern Chad and Darfur, reports David Buchbinder, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, after three...
Former White House Aide and current Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Gerson, talks about his experience in the administration working on the Darfur crisis
Jerry Fowler speaks with Lee Feinstein of the Council on Foreign Relations about Ban Ki-moon, the new Secretary General at the United Nations and the idea of the responsibility to protect....
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...
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...
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...
Having recenlty 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jerry Fowler speaks with 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
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...
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...
Michael Scharf, Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western University Law School in Cleveland, discusses the possiblity for justice...
Jason Miller is the national policy director for the Sudan Divestment Taskforce which is involved in nearly 100 divestment campaigns around the country, and he is also pursuing a dual...
As a consultant to the African Union, Alex de Waal, senior fellow at Harvard's Global Equity Initiative and author of Darfur: Short History of a Long War, helped broker the Darfur Peace...
Award-winning playwright, Catherine Filloux, discusses her latest play, Lemkin's House, with Jerry Fowler. Catherine imparts her connection with Raphael Lemkin and his legacy, and she...
In 2004, as a student at Swarthmore College and as the grandson of Holocaust Survivors, Mark Hanis could not remain idle as genocide raged in Darfur, and founded a student group to
Freelance journalist and Congo native, Mvemba Dizolele talks with Jerry Fowler about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the meaning of the recent elections....
Jane Alao, a psychosocial counselor at the Amel Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in Nyala, South Darfur discusses the objectives of the Centre--to provide...
Award winning actress and UNICEF ambassador, Mia Farrow, and her son and UNICEF youth spokesperson, Ronan Farrow, speak about their first hand accounts of the Darfur refugee camps.
Joining the program from Belgrade, Dr. James Lyon, the Special Balkans Advisor at the International Crisis Group, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the region, where he has been working...
Ken Bacon, the President of Refugees International, speaks with Jerry Fowler from Khartoum after having spent eleven days in North and South Darfur. He explains what must be done to...
Sarah Margon, Conflict Policy Advisor at Oxfam America, speaks with Jerry Fowler about the deteriorating situation in Darfur.
John Prendergast, Special Advisor to the President of the International Crisis Group, returns to the program to talk about his recent trip to Eastern Chad and parts of Darfur. He discusses...
Alfred Taban, the Publisher and Chairman of the Khartoum Monitor, Sudan's only independent English-language daily newspaper, recently received an award from the National Endowment for...
Jay Lefkowitz, Special Envoy on Human Rights in North Korea, discusses the current human rights situation in North Korea with regard to human trafficking, systematic starvation, concentration...
Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, provides an update on the humanitarian situation on the ground....
Ben Valentino, a Political Scientist at Dartmouth University discusses his book, Final Solutions: Mass Killings and Genocide in the 20th Century with Jerry Fowler.
Dr. Charlie Clements, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, talks with Jerry Fowler about Waitstill and Martha Sharp. On June 13th,...
Pauline Baker, the President of the Fund for Peace, discusses the recent publication of the Failed States Index, in partnership with Foreign Policy Magazine. She explains the meaning...
Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations, unpacks the process of the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission to Darfur....
On a recent visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Bosnian President Sulejman Tihic spoke with Jerry Fowler in the Darfur Display of the Wexner Learning Center about the major...
Richard Just and Marisa Katz, editors at the New Republic, share their thoughts on the failure of the United States and the West to stop the genocide in Darfur. They discuss what led...
Scott Straus, a Political Science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has recently published Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide and is about to
United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, recently presented an ominous report to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Darfur. He...
Ruth Messinger, Executive Director of the American Jewish World Service, will speak at the Rally to End Genocide in Darfur this Sunday on the National Mall. She has traveled to the...
On April 30th, rallies to end genocide in Darfur will take place in Washington, DC, San Francisco, and around the country. Olympic speedskating gold medalist Joey Cheek and former
Erin Mazursky, the Executive Director of STAND: Students Taking Action Now: Darfur and a Georgetown University student talks with Jerry Fowler about why she became active on Darfur
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum historian, Edna Friedberg, and Case Western Reserve University law professor Michael Scharf discuss the meaning of justice in the context of Nuremberg,...
Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Project Director of the Committee on Conscience, conducts an interview with Louise Mushikiwabo, a native Rwandan about her new book, Rwanda Means the Universe:...
Chris Padilla, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, discusses the obstacle that China creates for peace in Darfur, the unraveling at the United...
Award winning journalist and director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Jon Sawyer, recently returned from Darfur where he spent a week traveling with African Union troops....
Bradley Whitford, an Emmy-award winning star of the political drama, The West Wing, who recently wrote an episode of the show that focused in part on the genocide in Darfur. He discusses...
The International Crisis Group's, John Prendergast discusses three categories of response for the situation in Darfur: civilian protection, accountability, and root causes. Prendergast...
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof returns to the program to report on his sixth trip to the Chad-Darfur border as the violence is now spilling into Chad. As addressed in his...
Return guest, Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Chair of the Khartoum-based Sudan Social Development Organization discusses a recent meeting with President Bush, his views on the transition from...
Baba Gana Kingibe, the Special Representative of the African Union in Sudan, provides an update on the situation on the ground through the eyes of the African Union. Ambassador Kingibe...
The International Rescue Committee's Rick Brennan, discusses his findings from a study recently published in the British Medical Journal, Lancet, titled, Mortality in the Democratic...
Gloria White-Hammond, the co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, a pediatrician at Boston's South End Community Health Center, and the National...
Juan Mendez discusses the mandate of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, the role of the Convention and the responsibility to protect vulnerable civilians. He addresses...
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, of the Russian Human Rights Group Memorial, provides an analysis of the situation in Grozny today. She discusses the living conditions in the city of Grozny,...
Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel discusses the importance of remembering and bearing witness.
Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress provides an analysis of the African Union's summit in Khartoum, the decision to skip over Sudan's president Omar al Bashir...
Sudan researcher, Eric Reeves, discusses the current situation on the ground in Darfur, the failure to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Southern Sudan and the brewing
Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs speaks with Jerry Fowler about the current conditions in Darfur, the progress of the implementation of the North-South...
Africa Program Director, Suliman Baldo discusses the International Crisis Group's recent report, Sudan: Saving Peace in the East. Mr. Baldo explains the nature of the conflict in the...
Sally Chin, Advocate of Refugees International just returned from South Darfur and wrote the report, No Power to Protect: The African Union Mission in Darfur. She speaks with Jerry
Ambassador Princeton Lyman, Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations talks with Jerry Fowler about a report on new approaches towards Africa and the situation in Darfur.
Last March, the United Nations Security Council asked the International Criminal Court to investigate international crimes in Darfur. A day after ICC Chief Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo
Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin, whose family was annihilated in the Holocaust, coined the word genocide in 1944. On the 100th anniversary of Lemkin's birth, Michael Ignatieff
Jerry Fowler and Sudanese scholar Albaquir Mukhtar discuss the ways in which competing notions of identity contribute to conflict in Sudan. They touch on the ongoing crisis in Darfur,...
New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof recently returned from the Darfur region of Sudan. In an interview with Jerry Fowler, he shares his observations on the current situation,...
Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) speaks with Jerry Fowler about the genocide in Darfur and his efforts in Congress to halt the violence (November 15, 2005). The Senator talks about
Archbishop Lukudu Loro of Juba in Southern Sudan shares an update on the situation in Southern Sudan with Jerry Fowler (November 17, 2005). He addresses the success and sustainability...
Jerry Fowler interviews Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, chair of the Sudan Social Development Organization (November 10, 2005), about the conflict in the Darfur Region of Sudan and the situation...
