VOICES ON GENOCIDE PREVENTION

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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11/27/08

The courage to forgive and to bring hope

Interview: 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.

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VOICES ON GENOCIDE PREVENTION - AN INTERNET TALK SHOW FROM THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Stay up-to-date on the crisis in Darfur as well as the continuing challenge of preventing and responding to genocide and related crimes against humanity around the world. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents a weekly interview program, hosted by Bridget Conley-Zilkic, that brings you the voices you don't always hear in mainstream media -- from human rights defenders to experts to advocates to government officials. Vital voices addressing one of humanity's most vital issues.

Subscribe and listen to the show as a weekly podcast, or listen to individual programs online, and post your comments about the interviews on the blog.

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