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Unsilencing the Past

Unsilencing the Past

David L. Phillips

(2005)

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Abstract

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.


"Phillips’s firsthand information and analysis are extremely useful…an indispensable source…a profound, interesting, and challenging book."  ·  Peace, Conflict and Development: An Interdisciplinary Journal


David L. Phillips is Director of the Peacebuilding Program, the American University, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
UNSILENCING THE PAST i
CONTENTS vii
PREFACE xi
INTRODUCTION xv
1. LESSONS FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN xxi
2. FIRST CONTACT xxxiii
3. LEGISLATING HISTORY xli
4. EMPATHY liii
5. A HISTORIC STEP lxv
6. STORM OF CONTROVERSY lxxiii
7. LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM lxxxvii
8. TERROR STRIKES xcvii
9. RECONCILIATION DILEMMA cv
10. TAKING STOCK cxvii
11. APPLICABILITY OF THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION cxxv
12. WAR IN IRAQ cxxxv
13. AT THE BORDER cxliii
14. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE cxlix
EPILOGUE clxi
APPENDIX clxv
ACRONYMS clxix
PERSONALITIES clxxi
NAMES INDEX clxxix