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Henry Theriault

Henry Theriault

Henry C. Theriault, Ph.D. is currently associate vice president for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University in the US, after teaching in its philosophy department from 1998 to 2017. From 1999 to 2007, he coordinated the University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. Theriault’s research focuses on genocide denial, genocide prevention, post-genocide victim-perpetrator relations, reparations and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured and appeared on panels around the world. Since 2007, he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is lead author of its March 2015 final report, Resolution with Justice. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters, and his work has appeared in English, Spanish, Armenian, Turkish, Russian, French and Polish. With Samuel Totten, he co-authored The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Theriault served two terms as president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), 2017-2019 and 2019-2021. He is founding co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Genocide Studies International. From 2007 to 2012 he served as co-editor of the International Association of Genocide Scholars’ peer-reviewed Genocide Studies and Prevention.

7 Comments

  1. This is a long article and not easy to comment on.
    Congrats to the author for tackling these issues.
    Armenia is corrupt and endangers the nation, no doubt.
    The author hits the nail on the head in that respect.
    One wishes the Diaspora would be more critical of Armenia’s “leaders.”
    But I do think that the Diaspora has done a lot better than it is given credit for.
    I don’t see any other ethnic group of our relatively small size (in America) that has done better than Armenians politically, the only exception being Jews.
    Let us recognize the many good things that the Diaspora has done for 100+ years, including its persistence, and only then criticize it for its shortcomings.
    I do agree that some Diasporans are too focused on Armenian ‘star power’.
    But a few of the Armenian stars that the author names have not done very much for Armenians, while others have.

    There are lots of good Diasporan Armenians that some of the Armenian media won’t talk about because some media focus mainly on the ‘stars’.
    Perhaps this will change.

  2. Genocide Acknowledgment without accountability is hollow and meaningless. Turkey is accountable for the crime of genocide. Genocide is the worst crime humanity has given it a name. Accountability is for Land, Reparation and Restitution. Demand genocide acknowledgment -with- accountability. Artsakh is an example of land.

  3. Fairness, honesty and any hope for dialogue require that Armenian scholars and their sympathizers recognize and assume responsibility for the enormous damage to the Anatolian East and South-East due to the subversive, treasonable activities of Armenians starting in the 1870’s.No amount of polished,scholarly prose can hide the facts!

    • So you are suggesting that Armenians looking to break free from oppressive Sharia promoting Ottoman Turks in their own Armenian ancestral lands was “treasonable activities”, but the “Young Turks” who actually planned, implemented and toppled the Ottoman Empire were not engaged in “treasonable activities”? Answer this question first, before we proceed.

  4. This is an insightful and comprehensive exposition of what Armenia needs to do before any reparations can be paid. The corruption, inefficiency and lacking imagination of the government of Armenia is on target. He recognizes the justice of reparations and is correct that it would be dissipated in the maze of corruption and selfish aggrandizement by its current leadership.

  5. Are the Armenians planning to pay reparations for the Turkish and and Azerbaijani lands they seized in the Southern Caucasus (including in the Yerevan Province)?

    The reparations claims in this article are baseless and quite bias and also advocates only consider, and exaggerate, what was taken by the Turks, never what was taken from the Turks.

  6. This is a excellent and thought-provoking article. The one thing which I am left questioning is: what would the author propose as a method of giving reparations while avoiding the harms he discusses in the above article?

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