AUDIO LIBRARY

May 31, 2000

• Role of Radio in Rwanda
  Julia Crawford, project manager for Hirondelle Press Agency in Arusha, Tanzania
• Clandestine Radio -- "Hate" & "Peace" Radio Formats
  Nick Grace of Clandestine Radio Intel
• International Broadcasting in Central Africa
  Jonathan Marks, director of Programming, Radio Netherlands

• International Reaction to the Peruvian Presidential Election
  Susan Stokes, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
• Vladamir Putin
  Steven Solnick, professor of Political Science at Columbia University

• Irish politics
  Thomas Keneally, author of The Great Shame; and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, and Schindler's List
• U.S. China Relations
  Patrick Tyler, veteran correspondent for New York Times and Washington Post, currently New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief, and Beijing Bureau Chief from 1993-1997

• Indonesian Political Situation
  Jeffrey Winters, professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University from Jakarta
• Coup in Fiji
  John Davies, professor and head of the Department of Economics at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada explains the history of ethno-political conflicts and of the recent coup in Fiji

• Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge
  Craig Etcheson, independent genocide researcher
• Haitian elections and human rights in Haiti
  Rachel Neald, senior associate for Haiti at the Washington Office on Latin America
  
• GOP's Foreign Policy Plan
  Condoleeza Rice, head foreign policy advisor for US presidential candidate George W. Bush
  More information is at www.foreignpolicy2000.org

• Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon
  - Rasheid Khalidi, director of the Center for International Studies and professor of History at the University of Chicago
  - Michael Eisenstadt, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, co-editor of The Last Arab-Israeli Battlefield.
• United Nation's Committee Against Torture Reports on the U.S.
  Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
• Peru's turbulent presidential election
  Colletta Youngers, senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America
• Ethiopia/Eritrea War
  John Harbeson, professor and Chair of the political science department at City University of New York, formerly a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace

Discrimination of the Romany People in Central Europe
- Angela Kocze, human rights education director for European Roma Rights Center in Budapest
- Paul Polansky, American author of several books on Roma communities in Europe.
- Schanni Rifati, president of Voice of Roma, tells the story of one Kosovar Roma refugee in the United States.

• Israel's Pullout of Lebanon
  Ambassador Allen Baker, legal advisor to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Taiwan's New President
  Shelly Rigger, author of Politics in Taiwan, and associate professor of Political Science at Davidson University
• Cannes International Film Festival
  Milos Stehkik examines how the festival has struggled to balance art and commerce by looking at the different types of films that were offered.

• Free Trade with China
• No Clear Winner at Cannes
  Milos Stehlik

• International News of the Week:
  Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
• Preserving Tibetan Culture
  Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University in New York, president and founder of Tibet House in New York
  Sogyal Rinpoche, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
• International Fare at Cannes
  Milos Stehlik

• Conflict in Sierra Leone
  Adotei Akwei, director of Advocacy for Africa at Amnesty International
• Federal Violence Against Women Act
  Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
• U.S. Military Operations in Puerto Rico
  Robert Rabin of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
• Cannes
  Milos Stehlik looks at some of the offerings; from Oh, Brother Where Art Thou, a film based in the American South, to Taiwanese director Edward Yang's film A One and a Two

• Palestinian-Israeli Violence in the West Bank
  Ali Abunimah, vice president of the Arab-American Action Network
• Women and Development
  Martha Nussbaum, author of Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
• Opening Films at Cannes
  Milos Stehlik

• UN Committee Against Torture
  Bill Schultz, executive director of Amnesty International
• Torture from Northern Ireland to Chicago
  John Conroy, author of Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People

Current State of the Balkans
Misha Glenny, former BBC correspondent and author of The Balkans

• International News of the Week:
  Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
• Women's rights law, Israeli politics and the peace process
  Yael Dayan, Israeli Knesset member

• Healing Psychological Wounds in Sierra Leone
  Radio Netherlands' Eric Beauchemin
• Northern Ireland
  Ray O'Hanlon, senior editor at the Irish Echo

• Breakdown of Sierra Leone Peacekeeping Operation
  Will Reno, associate professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
• Globalization
  Thomas Friedman, New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree

• Yugoslavian War Crimes Trials
  Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law and defense counsel in the Yugoslavian war crimes trials, has published extensively on international human rights law.
  Excerpt from his speech given at the John Marshall Law School's conference on the International Crime of Genocide on April 18, 2000
• Pinochet's Dictatorship
  Dr. Juan Garces, leader of the multi-national legal team that represented cases of assassination, forced disappearance and torture committed under Pinochet's dictatorship

For additional information on the declassification of documents concerning U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup in Chile, visit The National Security Archive.

• Nick Burns, U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
• Debt relief, U.S. military bases, and Muslim rebels in the Philippines
  Sharon Ruiz-Duremdes, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines
• The Drama of Exile
  The University of Chicago's Human Rights Program and DOC Films are teaming up to present a series documenting the drama of exile. Milos Stehlik takes a look at some of the films in the Exile series-including Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solana's Tangos-The Exile of Gardel and Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's Obstinate Memory.

• International News of the Week:
  Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
• The Perils of Peacekeeping: Sierra Leone and Congo
  Will Reno, associate professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

• Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China
  Bruce Stokes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in DC
• Russian Abuses in Chechnya
  Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
• Revising Japan's U.S. Written Constitution
  Patrick Smith, writer, author of Japan: A Reinterpretation.

• May Day Protests
  Rodney Barker, London School of Economics
• Family Planning and Abortion in Ireland
  Tony O'Brien

• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
  Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Radio Deutsche Welle's Dorian Jones reports that, while the Turkish armed forces are well respected in Turkish society, many young men do not look forward to their obligatory 18-month military service.