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COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON GENOCIDE REPARATIONS PUBLISHED
Monday, March 30th, 2015
http://asbarez.com/133485/comprehensive-report-on-genocide-reparations-published/
Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group report
Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group Publishes Final Report
YEREVAN -The Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group on Monday issued
the final report, entitled "Resolution with Justice--Reparations
for the Armenian Genocide," offers an unprecedented comprehensive
analysis of the legal, historical, political, and ethical dimensions
of the question of reparations for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923,
including specific recommendations for the components of a complete
reparations package.
In September 2014, the group completed the report, and released the
introduction. With the announcement on Monday, the AGRSG is making
the entire report available for download, free of charge.
Prior to formation of the AGRSG in 2007, the limited discourse on
reparations for the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide included abstract
notions of territorial return, consideration of particular aspects
such as insurance lawsuits, academic and other works focused on a
specific part of the overall topic, and sometimes valuable short works
treating the issue but without comprehensive or detailed analysis.
The AGRSG was formed in 2007 by four experts in different areas
of reparations theory and practice. The grooup's mission was to
produce the first systematic, comprehensive, in-depth analysis
of the reparations issues raised by the Armenian Genocide. Funded
initially by a grant from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation,
the AGRSG members are Alfred de Zayas, Jermaine O. McCalpin, Ara
Papian, and Henry C. Theriault (Chair). George Aghjayan has served
as a special consultant.
After early agreement that some form of repair is an appropriate
remedy for the legacy of the Armenian Genocide as it stands today, the
AGRSG prepared a preliminary report, which was released for limited
distribution in 2009. Completion of the draft was followed by three
symposia. The first was a panel discussion featuring three of the
report authors, held on May 15, 2010 at George Mason University in
the United States, in conjunction with the university's Institute
for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The second was a major
day-long symposium featuring the four co-authors and a number of
other experts on reparations for the Armenian Genocide, conducted
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
through its International Human Rights Law Association, on October
23, 2010. The third was a panel by two of the report authors held
in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 11, 2010. The AGRSG is now issuing
for broad distribution its final report, an extensive revision and
updating of the 2009 preliminary report.
The report examines the case for reparations from legal, historical,
and ethical perspectives (Parts 4, 5, and 6, respectively),
offers a plan for a productive reparative process drawing on
transitional justice theory and practice (Part 7), and proposes
a concrete reparations package (Parts 3 and 8). The report also
includes background on the Armenian Genocide (Part 1) and the damages
inflicted by it and their impacts today (Part 2). Through its broad
dissemination, this report fills a crucial gap in the scholarly work
and policy discourse on the Armenian Genocide. It will give Turkish
and Armenian individuals as well as civil society and political
institutions the information, analysis, and tools to engage the
Armenian Genocide issue in a systematic manner that supports meaningful
resolution.
With the Genocide Centennial fast approaching, heightened international
political, academic, media, artistic, and public interest in the
Genocide has already been witnessed in 2015.
In addition, in the past few years, reparations for the Genocide
have gone from a marginal concern to a central focus in popular and
academic circles. Much of that focus has been on piecemeal individual
reparation legal cases. This report represents a decisive step toward
a much broader and all-embracing process of repair that is adequate
to resolve the extensive outstanding damages of the Genocide.
Furthermore, genuine, non-denialist engagement with the legacy of
the Genocide is growing in Turkey. Finally, in the past decade,
there has emerged a global reparations movement involving numerous
victim groups across an array of mass human rights violations. The
Armenian case has a place within that movement.
http://www.armeniangenocidereparations.info/?page_id=229
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Monday, March 30th, 2015
http://asbarez.com/133485/comprehensive-report-on-genocide-reparations-published/
Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group report
Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group Publishes Final Report
YEREVAN -The Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group on Monday issued
the final report, entitled "Resolution with Justice--Reparations
for the Armenian Genocide," offers an unprecedented comprehensive
analysis of the legal, historical, political, and ethical dimensions
of the question of reparations for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923,
including specific recommendations for the components of a complete
reparations package.
In September 2014, the group completed the report, and released the
introduction. With the announcement on Monday, the AGRSG is making
the entire report available for download, free of charge.
Prior to formation of the AGRSG in 2007, the limited discourse on
reparations for the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide included abstract
notions of territorial return, consideration of particular aspects
such as insurance lawsuits, academic and other works focused on a
specific part of the overall topic, and sometimes valuable short works
treating the issue but without comprehensive or detailed analysis.
The AGRSG was formed in 2007 by four experts in different areas
of reparations theory and practice. The grooup's mission was to
produce the first systematic, comprehensive, in-depth analysis
of the reparations issues raised by the Armenian Genocide. Funded
initially by a grant from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation,
the AGRSG members are Alfred de Zayas, Jermaine O. McCalpin, Ara
Papian, and Henry C. Theriault (Chair). George Aghjayan has served
as a special consultant.
After early agreement that some form of repair is an appropriate
remedy for the legacy of the Armenian Genocide as it stands today, the
AGRSG prepared a preliminary report, which was released for limited
distribution in 2009. Completion of the draft was followed by three
symposia. The first was a panel discussion featuring three of the
report authors, held on May 15, 2010 at George Mason University in
the United States, in conjunction with the university's Institute
for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The second was a major
day-long symposium featuring the four co-authors and a number of
other experts on reparations for the Armenian Genocide, conducted
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
through its International Human Rights Law Association, on October
23, 2010. The third was a panel by two of the report authors held
in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 11, 2010. The AGRSG is now issuing
for broad distribution its final report, an extensive revision and
updating of the 2009 preliminary report.
The report examines the case for reparations from legal, historical,
and ethical perspectives (Parts 4, 5, and 6, respectively),
offers a plan for a productive reparative process drawing on
transitional justice theory and practice (Part 7), and proposes
a concrete reparations package (Parts 3 and 8). The report also
includes background on the Armenian Genocide (Part 1) and the damages
inflicted by it and their impacts today (Part 2). Through its broad
dissemination, this report fills a crucial gap in the scholarly work
and policy discourse on the Armenian Genocide. It will give Turkish
and Armenian individuals as well as civil society and political
institutions the information, analysis, and tools to engage the
Armenian Genocide issue in a systematic manner that supports meaningful
resolution.
With the Genocide Centennial fast approaching, heightened international
political, academic, media, artistic, and public interest in the
Genocide has already been witnessed in 2015.
In addition, in the past few years, reparations for the Genocide
have gone from a marginal concern to a central focus in popular and
academic circles. Much of that focus has been on piecemeal individual
reparation legal cases. This report represents a decisive step toward
a much broader and all-embracing process of repair that is adequate
to resolve the extensive outstanding damages of the Genocide.
Furthermore, genuine, non-denialist engagement with the legacy of
the Genocide is growing in Turkey. Finally, in the past decade,
there has emerged a global reparations movement involving numerous
victim groups across an array of mass human rights violations. The
Armenian case has a place within that movement.
http://www.armeniangenocidereparations.info/?page_id=229
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress