{"id":13,"date":"2014-09-09T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniangenocidereparations.info\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2014-09-16T21:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:52:59","slug":"about-agrsg-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/armeniangenocidereparations.info\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"About AGRSG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funded initially by a grant from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun(1)<\/sup> to study and report on the issue of reparations for the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group was first convened in 2007. Its members are Alfred de Zayas, Jermaine O. McCalpin, Ara Papian, and Henry C. Theriault (Chair). George Aghjayan has served as a special consultant.<\/p>\n

The AGRSG released a preliminary draft report in 2009, which was followed by three 2010 programs on the report, featuring members of the AGRSG, at George Mason University in the United States (May 15), at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law (October 23), and in Yerevan, Armenia (December 11).<\/p>\n

Inquiries about the AGRSG and its report can be directed to Henry Theriault at:
\nhtheriault@worcester.edu<\/a>
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\n+1 (508) 929-8612
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\nDepartment of Philosophy
\nWorcester State University
\n486 Chandler Street
\nWorcester, MA 01602
\nUSA<\/p>\n

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(1) The positions taken and perspectives expressed in the report are those of the AGRSG members alone, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alfred-Maurice de Zayas<\/h3>\n

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\"AlfredDeZayas\"<\/a>Alfred de Zayas received his J.D. from Harvard University and his Dr.phil. in history from G\u00f6ttingen.\u00a0 He is a member of the New York and Florida bars.\u00a0 He is a retired senior lawyer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva; former Secretary of the U.N. Human Rights Committee; and former Chief of the Human Rights Petitions Department.\u00a0 Dr. de Zayas was appointed as the first Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order by the Human Rights Council, effective May 2012.\u00a0 In this position, Dr. de Zayas has authored multiple reports, testified numerous times, and made frequent public recommendations toward democracy and equity.\u00a0 From 2006 to 2010 and 2013 to the present, he has been President of PEN International, Centre Suisse Romand.\u00a0 He is author of Nemesis at Potsdam:\u00a0 The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans<\/em> (London:\u00a0 Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, republished in new editions multiple times), A Terrible Revenge:\u00a0 The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans<\/em>, 1944-1950, 2nd<\/sup> ed. (New York:\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and The Genocide against the Armenians and the Relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention<\/em> (Beirut:\u00a0 Haigazian University Press, 2010); co-author with Justice Jakob M\u00f6ller of United Nations Human Rights Committee Case-Law <\/em>(Kehl:\u00a0 N.P. Engel, 2009); and co-author and co-editor of International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms<\/em> (Amsterdam:\u00a0 Kluwer 2001, 2nd revised edition 2009).\u00a0 Dr. de Zayas regularly publishes op-ed articles and essays in European publications, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em>, and has made numerous television appearances, including on CNN and RT.\u00a0 Publications by and more information about Dr. de Zayas can be found at his website, www.alfreddezayas.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Visit also his blog http:\/\/dezayasalfred.wordpress.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. de Zayas was lead author of the \u201cTerminology\u201d section, Part 4. and the \u201cClosing Remark.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jermaine O. McCalpin<\/h3>\n

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\"McCalpin\"<\/a>Jermaine McCalpin is currently Associate Director of the Center for Caribbean Thought and Lecturer of Transitional Justice in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona. \u00a0He received his B.Sc in Political Science and International Relations and M.Sc from the University of the West Indies, Mona. \u00a0He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University.\u00a0 Dr. McCalpin specializes in Africana political philosophy, Caribbean political thought, and transitional justice.\u00a0 \u00a0His research interests include truth commissions and political accountability, as well as reparations for slavery, Native American extermination, and the Armenian Genocide.\u00a0 \u00a0McCalpin has written on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its development of a restorative justice approach to South Africa\u2019s transitional justice issues as well as the moral justification for reparations for slavery and the Armenian Genocide. \u00a0His most recent publications include \u201cWritten into Amnesia?\u00a0 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Grenada,\u201d Journal of Social and Economic Studies <\/em>(62:3-4, 2013); \u201cReparations and the Politics of Avoidance in America,\u201d Armenian Review<\/em> (53:1-4, 2013); and \u201cTruth and Freedom in Haiti:\u00a0 An Examination of the 1995 Haitian Truth Commission,\u201d The Global South<\/em> (6:1, 2012).\u00a0 In 2011, he was lead author of a U.N. Development Programme-sponsored study on governance and truth-telling mechanisms in Jamaica entitled,\u00a0No Truth, No Trust: Democracy, Governance and the Prospects for Truth Telling Mechanisms in Jamaica<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0He is currently working on a monograph on a comparative assessment of Caribbean truth commission experiments in Haiti and Grenada with South Africa. \u00a0He is also researching the political participation of the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States and their countries of origin.<\/p>\n

Dr. McCalpin was lead author of Part 7.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ara Papian<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"AraPapian\"<\/a>Ara Papian is President of the Modus Vivendi Research Center<\/a>, which focuses on Armenian political issues.\u00a0 From 2000 to 2006, Papian served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Canada.\u00a0 Prior to this appointment, he was the Spokesman and Head of the Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.\u00a0 From 1989 to 1991, Papian was Professor of Armenian Language and Literature at the Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus, and taught Armenian history and the history of Iran at Yerevan State University from 1987 to 1989 and from 1998 to 2000, respectively.\u00a0 Papian graduated from the Department of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University (1984) and completed a postgraduate degree course of studies in Armenian History at Yerevan State University (1989).\u00a0 He graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation (1994, Moscow) and from the NATO Defense College (1998, Rome).\u00a0 He also completed a course of study in Public Diplomacy (1999, Oxford).\u00a0 In 1981 to 1982 and then in 1984 to 1986, Papian served as a military interpreter\/translator in Afghanistan.\u00a0 He was decorated seven times with military awards.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Papian was lead author of Part 5 and co-author of Part 8.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Henry C. Theriault<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"TheriaultHenry\"<\/a>Henry Theriault is currently Professor in and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Worcester State University in the United States, where he has taught since 1998 and from 1999 to 2007 coordinated the University\u2019s Center for the Study of Human Rights.\u00a0 He earned his B.A. in English from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, with a specialization in social and political philosophy.\u00a0 His research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, genocide denial, genocide prevention, and mass violence against women and girls.\u00a0 He has published numerous journal articles and chapters in the area of genocide studies, including \u201cRepairing the Irreparable:\u00a0 \u2018Impossible\u2019 Harms and the Complexities of \u2018Justice,\u2019 in Pr\u00e1cticas Genocidas y Violencia Estatal:\u00a0 en Perspectiva Transdiscipinar<\/em> (2014); \u201cHell Is for Children:\u00a0 The Impact of Genocide on Young Armenians,\u201d in Genocide:\u00a0 A Critical Bibliographic Review<\/em>, Volume 10 (2014); \u201cReparations for Genocide:\u00a0 Group Harm and the Limits of Liberal Individualism,\u201d International Criminal Law Review<\/em> 14:2 (2014); \u201cY\u00fczyl T\u00fcrkiye\u2019si \u0130\u00e7in Ermeni Soyk\u0131r\u0131m\u0131 Sorunu:\u00a0 Sorumluluk ve \u00c7\u00f6z\u00fcme Y\u00f6nelik Tazmin\u201d (\u201cThe Challenge of the Armenian Genocide for 21st<\/sup> Century Turkey:\u00a0 Responsibility and Reparation Toward Resolution\u201d), \u00d6ncesi ve Sonras\u0131 Ile 1915:\u00a0 Ink\u00e2r ve Y\u00fczle\u015fme:\u00a0 Ink\u00e2r ve Y\u00fczle\u015fme Sempozyumu 24-25 Nisan 2010<\/em> (2013); \u201cShared Burdens \u00a0and Perpetrator-Victim Group Conciliation,\u201d in Genocide, Risk and Resilience:\u00a0 An Interdisciplinary Approach<\/em> (2013); and \u201cDenial of Ongoing Atrocities as a Rationale for Not Attempting to Prevent or Intervene,\u201d in Genocide:\u00a0 A Critical Bibliographic Review<\/em>, Volume 9 (2013).\u00a0 He has lectured and given panel papers around the world, including in Armenia, Turkey, the Mountainous Karabakh Republic, Lebanon, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Rwanda, Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Argentina, and across the United States.\u00a0 He is founding co-editor of the peer-reviewed Genocide Studies International<\/em> and was recently named co-editor of Transaction Publishers Genocide:\u00a0 A Critical Bibliographic Review<\/em>.\u00a0 From 2007 to 2012 he served as\u00a0 co-editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention<\/em>, and was guest editor of the International Criminal Law Review<\/em> special issue on \u201cArmenian Genocide Reparations\u201d (14:2, 2014), and the Armenian Review<\/em> special issue on the \u201cNew Global Reparations Movement\u201d (53:1-4, 2012).<\/p>\n

Dr. Theriault served as Chair of the AGRSG and was lead author of the introduction and Parts 1-3 and 6, and co-author of Part 8.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funded initially by a grant from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun(1) to study and report on the issue of reparations for the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group was first convened in 2007. Its members are Alfred de Zayas, Jermaine O. McCalpin, Ara Papian, and Henry C. Theriault (Chair). George Aghjayan has served as … <\/p>\n

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