Listen to the People (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:22:10
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 poll on the United Nations' Responsibility to Protect in general as well as specifically in the case of Darfur.
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Piece Description
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 poll on the United Nations' Responsibility to Protect in general as well as specifically in the case of Darfur.
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on May 3, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is pollster Steven Kull. He is editor of www.worldpublicopinion.org and director of the program on international policy attitudes. His most recent book co-authored with I. M. Desler, is Misreading the Public: the myth of a new isolationism. Steven, welcome to the program.
STEVEN KULL: Thanks for having me.
JERRY FOWLER: Now your group, www.worldpublicopinion.org just worked with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to release polling data from 15 countries plus the Palestinian territories, on public attitude towards responding to genocide. Can you give us the overview on what those polls found?
STEVEN KULL: Well we wanted to first focus on the question of the principle of the United Nations and its responsibility in relation to severe human rights abuses such as genocide. As you may know that the United Nations has endorsed the idea that it has a ki...
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