NEWEST ARMENIAN REVIEW ISSUE FOCUSES ON GENOCIDE REPARATIONS

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NEWEST ARMENIAN REVIEW ISSUE FOCUSES ON GENOCIDE REPARATIONS

 

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Published: Sunday January 06, 2013

 

WATERTOWN, MASS. - The editors of the Armenian Review are pleased to

announce the publication of the latest issue of the leading journal of

Armenian Studies, a Special Issue about "The New Global Reparations

Movement," the growing movement to require reparations for cases of

mass human rights violations.

 

The articles in the issue examine the necessity for reparations for

the Armenian Genocide, both as a matter of international law and in

contrast to the limited dialogue and acknowledgment models currently

ongoing. Other authors place the Armenian case within a broader context

by describing reparations models and movements including South Africa,

Argentina, Japan, and for African-Americans.

 

Professor Henry Theriault of Worcester State University is the Guest

Editor of the Special Issue and also contributes his analysis of the

moral imperative requiring reparations for the Armenian Genocide.

 

International Law expert, Dr. Alfred de Zayas, brilliantly argues

the case that the U.N. Genocide Convention is both applicable to the

Armenian Genocide and requires that reparations be made.

 

For many years, reparations had not been a central element in

political, legal, or ethical engagements with past group harms. Since

the 1988 decision by the United States to compensate Japanese-Americans

interned during World War II, however, reparations have been raised

by victim groups as a key requirement for justice and have become

intertwined with truth and reconciliation processes.

 

Thus the articles in the Special Issue present many of the other key

reparations movements. Jermaine McCalpin and M.P. Giyose discuss the

Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and connect it

to other cases: McCalpin to African-American and Native American

reparations and Giyose to the legacy of former colonies burdened

by the huge state debts incurred by their former rulers. Patrick

Sargent analyzes South Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Haiti as four

cases of such "odious debt." Kibibi Tyehimba analyzes the need for

reparations for the historical legacy of sustained violence against

African-Americans and Haruko Shibasaki presents the legal movement in

Japan for reparations for the "Comfort Women" who were forced into

sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. A group of

authors present the issue of reparations for indigenous peoples who

were dispossessed by Argentina's military junta.

 

The special issue of the Armenian Review, Volume 53, no. 1-4, may

be ordered by itself or as part of a subscription to the academic

journal from its website, www.armenianreview.org or by email at

orders@armenianreview.org.

 

 

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