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A Boy in a Red Beret

Remembering Aso Tavitian, with sadness and gratitude

April 28, 2020 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Among Aso’s dinner guests there was, on the one hand, a quiet Turkish philanthropist named Osman Kavala, who had studied at NSSR in the early 1980s and was now well known for his support of human rights organizations in Turkey. On the other hand, there was the widely respected Archbishop ...

Shout-out over Armenian Genocide on 104th Anniversary

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is a national holiday in Armenia

April 29, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman empire exterminated 1.5 million Armenians. The starting date is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is a national holiday in Armenia. On that day the Armenian Embassy in Washington, D.C. holds an annual memorial. This year’s was marked by a shouting ...

The Armenian Violence Question

A Conversation on Means and Social Change

December 13, 2016 • by Tamar Shirinian and Nelli Sargsyan

How do we make sense of a general population's acceptance of militarization? We see the following conversation as an attempt to entangle and disentangle some of the complexities of this particular historical juncture in post-Soviet Armenia. In reflecting on the Armenian experience and on the larger process of postsocialism and ...