Why Focusing on Abusers Instead of Survivors Misses the Point

Amanpour

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Survivors, not statistics: We start with the persistent and pernicious violence against women, and the lack of action and accountability to protect them. This week two more women accused rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs of sexual assault. This comes after CNN obtained sickening video of Combs attacking his girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016. Christiane speaks with a transatlantic panel of women: attorney Gloria Allred, along with Lejla Dauti and April Hernandez Castillo, who are both survivors and advocates. Then, how journalists “operate in a disinformation ecosystem” is a “defining issue,” as the world heads into a wave of critical elections, says Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb. Meantime, Former US State Department Senior Advisor and historian Vali Nasr discusses the succession crisis in Iran after the sudden death of its president. “Moving towards the middle gives more room for the US to engage Iran,” he says. From the Amanpour Archive this week: When ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic became the first sitting head of state to be tried by an international criminal tribunal. And, in our Letter from London, the best-selling Israeli author and historian Yuval Noah Harari asks whether the Middle East can ever escape the "Israeli-Palestinian trap." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.7	18 plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello and welcome to the Amampur hour. Here's where we're headed this week. It took a sickening video of violence for Sean Diddy Combs
0:46.0	to finally admit and apologize for abusing his then girlfriend.
0:51.0	I think a lot of us are survivors will recognize our perpetrators in him.
0:55.6	But a week later we redirect the spotlight squarely onto survivors with an incredible
1:00.8	panel of women on both sides of the pond.
1:03.7	And there are so many women, men and children who are watching this
1:07.5	and I just want them, I want them to know that they are not alone.
1:10.6	Then, the Dean of Columbia Journalism School,
1:13.0	Jalani Cobb, on balancing freedom of speech and security
1:17.0	and fighting disinformation in a critical election year.
1:20.4	We haven't come to any real conclusions about what should be done with
1:24.9	disinformation. Plus how the sudden death of Iran's president could reboot its
1:29.4	relationship with America. Moving towards the more middle gives more room for the United States to engage Iran.
1:35.6	Also this hour, Israeli author and public intellectual Yuval Noah Harare on breaking the
1:41.3	cycle of violence in the Middle East.
1:43.0	I think the entire Jewish people is at a historical junction.
1:47.0	And in the wake of my exclusive interview with the ICC chief prosecutor
1:52.0	on seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Hamas and Israel.
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