Special Reports

Special Reports

Barsoumian: GenEd Promotes Armenian Genocide Education in U.S. Schools

Despite the fact that official U.S. acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide is still subject to the political currents of our time, Armenian Genocide education is included in the history curriculum of many U.S. schools.
To encourage and facilitate genocide education and counter the institutionalization of denialist ideologies, a number of organizations are actively supporting genocide education [...]

Papian: On the Principles of ‘Self-Determination’ and ‘Territorial Integrity’ in Public International Law: The Case of Nagorno-Karabagh

We are not going to negotiate over the right of the people of Artsakh [Karabagh] to self-determination.
—Serge Sarkisian, President of the Republic of Armenia, June 1, 2010
It is for the people to determine the destiny of the territory and not the territory the destiny of the people.
—Judge Hardy Dillard, International Court of Justice, Oct. 16, [...]

A Quiet Place Along the Khabour: Rescue and Survival in ‘the Abattoir of Shaddadeh’

The Armenian Weekly
April 2010 Magazine
The road to Der Zor—from Bab, Munbij, Meskene, Raqqa—is well documented in the memoirs of Armenian Genocide survivors and foreign eyewitness accounts. However, it wasn’t enough to arrive in Der Zor alive; deportees were driven to march further north along the Khabour River to a place where gendarmes thought no one [...]

Clark University Conference on Armenian Genocide Historiography and Sources

Akcam (R) and Demoyan
From April 9-10, a groundbreaking academic workshop—titled “The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions”—took place in the Higgins University Center, Clark University.
The workshop was organized by Taner Akcam, the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Professor of Armenian Genocide Studies at [...]

Theriault: The Global Reparations Movement and Meaningful Resolution of the Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Weekly
April 2010 Magazine
Over the past half millennium, genocide, slavery, Apartheid, mass rape, imperial conquest and occupation, aggressive war targeting non-combatants, population expulsions, and other mass human rights violations have proliferated. Individual processes have ranged from months to centuries. While the bulk of perpetrator societies have been traditional European countries or European settler states [...]

The Indomitable Sukhudyan: One Woman’s Struggle Against Child Abuse and the Powers That Be

On March 10, Mariam Sukhudyan was awarded the U.S. Embassy of Armenia’s first ever Woman of Courage Award. In her speech, U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch commended Mariam for her environmental and civic activism: “[Mariam] has campaigned to protect Armenia’s forests, wildlife, and environment; she has volunteered in schools for special needs children; and when [...]

Weekly Publishes Special Insert Dedicated to Women’s Issues

WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)–The March 6 and March 13 issues of the Armenian Weekly feature a series of articles dedicated to women’s issues.
March 8 is International Women's Day.
Published on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, these articles are “a testament to the Weekly’s continued insistence on shedding light on women’s issues,” according to Weekly editor [...]

Sohigian: Listening to the Wind of Change: Renewable Energy in Armenia

The Armenian Weekly
January 2010 Magazine
A 2 kW photovoltaic station assembled and laminated by specialists at the State Engineering University of Armenia was installed on the roof of St. Sarkis Church in Yerevan (Photo source: EU-Armenia Web Portal on Renewable Energy)
Armenia relies on a diverse mix of energy resources, and renewables present a range of challenges, [...]

Jacobs: The Outrageous Claim of Christopher Jon Bjerkness: The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians

By Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs
Abstract
According to Swiss-born Canadian conspiracy theorist Henry Makow, author of the antisemitic text Illuminati: The Cult that Hijacked the World (BookSurge Publishing, 2008), Chicagoan Christopher Jon Bjerkness is a “scholar who knows what plagues mankind and believes his knowledge is necessary to stop Armageddon” (www.savethemales.ca).  Bjerkness, who claims “Jewish descent” (?), is the [...]

Armenia in 2009: The Year in Review

Significant, highly controversial steps towards the formation of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey were taken during 2009.
Roadmaps and protocols
On April 23, an agreement of “mutual understanding,” defined as a “roadmap,” had been agreed upon by Armenia and Turkey assuring the world that mutually beneficial relations between them were forthcoming. However, Turkey insisted that the [...]