Defending the Nation? Maintaining Turkey's Narrative of the Armenian Genocide

Dixon, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1080/13608746.2010.513605

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“…This "silencing of the past" and erasing of memory includes the ongoing use by Turkish officials of "the national educational system to shape citizens' understanding of the 'Armenian question' and to bolster domestic support for its official position." (Dixon 2010).…”

Section: Rewriting the Curriculum: The Armenian Genocidementioning

confidence: 95%

Educating a New Generation: The Model of the “Genocide and Human Rights University Program”

Apsel

2011

Hum Rights Rev

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This paper examines the design and teaching of "Genocide and Human Rights," an innovative, higher education course introduced in 2002 to provide training for a new generation of scholars and teachers. The course was developed and funded by a small non-profit organization, the Zoryan Institute, in Toronto, Canada. One purpose of the course is to teach about the Armenian genocide within a comparative genocide and human rights framework. Another goal is to fill a gap in the curriculum in response to increased student interest and research in genocide and human rights. The course serves as a valuable pedagogical model including its comparative framework, teaching by invited specialists, adjusting the curriculum to reflect student interest and new scholarship, and setting up and maintaining formal and informal scholarly networks. Features of critical pedagogy include classroom dialogue and critique and respect for differences in background and opinion. For example, interactions between students of Turkish and Armenian background provide an opportunity to explore issues of stereotypes, memory, denial and reconciliation. The course provides training for a new generation in research, publications, teaching and advocacy in fields related to genocide and human rights.

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Section: Rewriting the Curriculum: The Armenian Genocidementioning

confidence: 95%

Educating a New Generation: The Model of the “Genocide and Human Rights University Program”

Apsel

2011

Hum Rights Rev

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“…These institutions p rovide information that sustains the dominant confl ict-supportive narrative while suppressing information that may challenge it. This is done, for instance, by selecting friendly agents for the dissemination of information, by establishing a central organization to oversee the dissemination of the offi cial confl ictsupportive narratives, and by preventing journalists or monitoring NGOs from entering particular areas of confl ict-related action (Dixon 2010 ). The Russians' method for dealing with the local media during the second Russia-Chechnya War illustrates this mechanism's employment.…”

Section: Societal Mechanisms As Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…State offi cials had access to such documents but only to search for documents that supported the Turkish "no genocide" narrative. In 1985, the archives were partially opened, but even then, access granted to the documents was highly selective (Dixon 2010 ;Safarian 1999 ). 4.…”

Section: Societal Mechanisms As Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook of International Negotiation

Galluccio¹

2015

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contributor Mauro Galluccio's present volume appears to fi ll in an existing and ever more visible void in shaping an entirely new approach in modern-day diplomacy. The signifi cance of this book can hardly be over-rated. It offers an entirely new political and psychological angle to transforming confl ict by managing interpersonal dynamics and tailoring preventive behaviors. It alerts us to the crucial role of the mental heritage of confl icts and powerful emotions. In brief, it enhances an entirely new type of negotiation as a fundamental tool of managing, preventing, and resolving confl ict by acknowledging the diversity of mental viewpoints about any given reality.This volume can indeed serve as a handbook to practitioners-diplomats and decision-makers-in educating themselves, in reshaping their own outlook, and in even bettering themselves as individuals in positions of authority and responsibility for bringing positive change to the lives of millions of people. Elena Poptodorova Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United StatesGalluccio has brought together a distinguished and diverse group of scholars and practitioners to address an enduring, if evolving, challenge to human wellbeing: violent confl ict between nations and subnational groups. His aim is to organize the interdisciplinary character of the research, on which the authors draw, into coherent perspectives on the causes of confl icts and potentially effective interventions designed to prevent and resolve them.There is much that is new here. Perhaps most important, there is a focus on the personal and emotional character of confl ict-for those who engage in it and those who intervene to mitigate it.

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“…These institutions p rovide information that sustains the dominant confl ict-supportive narrative while suppressing information that may challenge it. This is done, for instance, by selecting friendly agents for the dissemination of information, by establishing a central organization to oversee the dissemination of the offi cial confl ictsupportive narratives, and by preventing journalists or monitoring NGOs from entering particular areas of confl ict-related action (Dixon 2010 ). The Russians' method for dealing with the local media during the second RussiaChechnya War illustrates this mechanism's employment.…”

Section: Societal Mechanisms As Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representative Decision-Making: Challenges to Democratic Peace Theory

Çuhadar

Druckman

2014

Handbook of International Negotiation

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It has become only too evident that traditional methods of confl ict prevention and resolution are no longer adequate or effective. This is why editor and contributor Mauro Galluccio's present volume appears to fi ll in an existing and ever more visible void in shaping an entirely new approach in modern-day diplomacy. The signifi cance of this book can hardly be over-rated. It offers an entirely new political and psychological angle to transforming confl ict by managing interpersonal dynamics and tailoring preventive behaviors. It alerts us to the crucial role of the mental heritage of confl icts and powerful emotions. In brief, it enhances an entirely new type of negotiation as a fundamental tool of managing, preventing, and resolving confl ict by acknowledging the diversity of mental viewpoints about any given reality.This volume can indeed serve as a handbook to practitioners-diplomats and decision-makers-in educating themselves, in reshaping their own outlook, and in even bettering themselves as individuals in positions of authority and responsibility for bringing positive change to the lives of millions of people. Elena Poptodorova Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United StatesGalluccio has brought together a distinguished and diverse group of scholars and practitioners to address an enduring, if evolving, challenge to human wellbeing: violent confl ict between nations and subnational groups. His aim is to organize the interdisciplinary character of the research, on which the authors draw, into coherent perspectives on the causes of confl icts and potentially effective interventions designed to prevent and resolve them.There is much that is new here. Perhaps most important, there is a focus on the personal and emotional character of confl ict-for those who engage in it and those who intervene to mitigate it. The passion, competence, and intensity that Galluccio brings to this edited volume is striking and appropriate, in light of the importance of the topic to those who have been or will be victims of violent confl ict, but at no point does it detract from the intellectual rigor that characterizes the entire volume. Robert L. Gallucci US Ambassador-at-Large Past President of the MacArthur Foundation Former US Assistant Secretary of StateThis timely volume and the work of Dr. Mauro Galluccio on international negotiation and mediation is extremely relevant in the current climate of confl ict throughout the world and the potential perils that presently exist among nations. This collection of essays by renowned scholars, foreign policy experts, offi cials, psychologists, and other practitioners, ably assembled and edited by Dr. Mauro Galluccio, is so very welcome. This handbook highlights the complexity, and diffi culty, of international negotiations. Fortunately, it also provides important and useful tools for those responsible for conducting diplomacy with terrorists and insurgents. It is sure to be widely read, cited, and used as a valuable reference work for years to come. Mitchell Reiss President of the Colon...

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Defending the Nation? Maintaining Turkey's Narrative of the Armenian Genocide

Cited by 38 publications

References 15 publications

Educating a New Generation: The Model of the “Genocide and Human Rights University Program”

Educating a New Generation: The Model of the “Genocide and Human Rights University Program”

Handbook of International Negotiation

Representative Decision-Making: Challenges to Democratic Peace Theory

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