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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798390603321

Autore

Phillips David L (David Lawrence), <1959->

Titolo

Unsilencing the past : track two diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian reconciliation / / David L. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-84545-007-8

1-78238-938-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/7/09475609561

Soggetti

Armenian question

Reconciliation

Conflict management - Turkey

Track two diplomacy

Turkey Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

UNSILENCING THE PAST; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. LESSONS FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; 2. FIRST CONTACT; 3. LEGISLATING HISTORY; 4. EMPATHY; 5. A HISTORIC STEP; 6. STORM OF CONTROVERSY; 7. LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM; 8. TERROR STRIKES; 9. RECONCILIATION DILEMMA; 10. TAKING STOCK; 11. APPLICABILITY OF THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION; 12. WAR IN IRAQ; 13. AT THE BORDER; 14. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX; ACRONYMS; PERSONALITIES; NAMES INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples. The author, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously advisor to the United Nations, undertook, as head of the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Committee, to bring the two sides together and to work with them towards a peaceful resolution of the enmity that had made any contact between them taboo. His lively account of the difficult negotiations makes fascinating reading; it



shows that the newly developed “track-two diplomacy” is an effective tool for reconciling even intractable foes through fostering dialog, contact and cooperation.