Unsilencing the past
Subtitle: track two diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian reconciliation
By: David L. Phillips.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Armenian question; Reconciliation; Conflict management -- Turkey; Turkey -- Ethnic relations
Description: 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.