How can atrocity survivors and their allies cut through Washington D.C.’s short-term political cycles to be heard? Zovighian Public Office (ZPO) founder Lynn Zovighian and former Chair of USCIRF Nadine Maenza unpack the clash between survivor truths, U.S. diplomacy, and the lobbying of perpetrators — asking why justice in diplomacy and law remains so dangerously slow.

They expose the two-way road between survivors and Washington: a system wired for speed and political wins, where atrocity truths risk being undervalued – or worse, ignored – and where civil society must compete with perpetrators’ powerful lobbying machines to make evidence count.

This second of three conversations continues the series with a critical question: When the crimes and perpetrators are so clear, why does justice in diplomacy and international law remain so da ...