Show Notes
We speak with historian Dirk Moses about the origins of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: the lawyer behind it (Raphael Lemkin), its influence on the public understanding of genocide, how it has been used, and how political the process of accountability has become.
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We speak with Jehanne Henry and Niemat Ahmadi about genocidal violence, war and accountability in Sudan, from 2003 to the present. Niemat, a Sudanese activist from Darfur and a survivor, created the women-led non-profit organization Darfur Women Action Group, which advocates for the end of atrocities in Darfur and Sudan at large. Jehanne, a researcher, lawyer and lecturer at Columbia Law School and CUNY, worked for the UN Mission in Sudan and Human Rights Watch, and recently advised Sudan’s Judiciary during the democratic transition period.
We speak with anthropologist Ken MacLean about human rights investigations in Myanmar: how atrocities are recorded both by local and international organizations, and how this affects the prospects for accountability. MacLean, professor at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Clark University, is the author of 'Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar' (University of California Press, 2022)
We discuss how genocide still impacts Native women with two members of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW). Angel Charley and Florida Olguin shed light on the enduring legacy of genocide and sexual violence in the U.S. today, and explain why it is so difficult to bring accountability for crimes of trafficking and of domestic and sexual violence.
We talk with historian Jeffrey Ostler about the history and patterns of the American genocide against native Nations. Ostler, an emeritus professor from the University of Oregon, is the author of 'Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas' (Yale University Press, 2020).
We speak with two former diplomats about their experiences before and during the third civil war in South Sudan that started in December 2013. Canadian Ambassador Nicholas Coghlan and former State Department diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford discuss the international community's reactions and the prospects for accountability.