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Three Lessons to be Learned from the Treaty of Sèvres

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sèvres August 10, 2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the Treaty of Sèvres. The Treaty’s life was very short as it was replaced in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne. The long-term consequences of this switch in diplomacy has been devastating to Arm

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Sara Cohan

Sara Cohan is a human rights and genocide education consultant. She worked for The Genocide Education Project for seventeen years as their education director. Her background combines research, study, curriculum development and teaching. She is a museum teacher fellow for the US Holocaust Museum and Memorial and worked extensively with the USC Shoah Foundation. In 2001, Cohan was named the research fellow for Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and later she served on their advisory board in 2012. She also studied in Mexico as a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays scholarship and studied Islamic influences in Europe as a fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was an expert lecturer at the Council of Europe's European Youth Centre in Budapest in 2009 and has worked with the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute in Yerevan. Cohan has written articles and designed educational materials for a variety of organizations and publications. She is the granddaughter of an Armenian Genocide survivor.

7 Comments

  1. Excellent article ! Can the Greeks and Armenians take UNESCO to court as they failed the rightful owners of the Churches that were under so called UNESCO protection ? yet we have seen no condemnation for these recent cultural genocide, and also let’s not forget what happened in nakichevan where Armenians lost 1000 year old Kachkars to the hands of the barabrian Azeris/turks ?

  2. A really excellent and informative article, Sara. I profess sheepishly that I didn’t know about the Treaty of Lausanne, certainly not how it betrayed (intentionally) the Treaty of Sèvres.

  3. Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sèvres

    May I have the first and second articles, please.
    Thanks

    1. Hello, Mr. Kurkjian…
      From Commemoration to Celebration by Tatul Sonentz Papazian was published on 8/19…
      & The Treaty of Sѐvres: A Historic Event by Rev. Dr. Vahan Tootikian was published on 8/10…

  4. Awesome article, makes one proud of being Armenian and having gone through so much of the same struggles as oppressed people throughout the world; Gives us an edge of wisdom and knowledge about the best and worst that humans are capable of. Moreover, the Armenian Weekly’s culture of critical thinking, emphasis on political maturity, and big picture view of world events reminds us that being Armenian is so much more than just having a wonderful cuisine

  5. Thank you so very much Sara. This was very insightful. Any material you can direct me to to help teach this aspect of history to my 3rd graders?

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