Journal ArticleOpen Access
Yeghiazaryan, Arman, 2024
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2(28), pp. 83–99 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2024.2.28.005
Since 1980 a series of conferences has brought together representatives of Armenia and the diaspora to discuss cooperation, set priorities, and clarify future tasks. The necessity of such assemblies was debated both in the Soviet period and after the restoration of independence, and the search for the most effective format is still unresolved. Depending on the political approach of the government of the day and the problems it needed to solve, these gatherings took different shapes: representative meetings, conferences, summits. The article examines the agendas and convening formats of the Armenia–Diaspora conferences against the historical and political reality of each moment.
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Laycock, Joanne · Piana, Francesca, 2020
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-5261-4220-7 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches)
This ten-essay volume examines more than a century of humanitarian engagement with Armenia and Armenians, from the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s to the present day. The editors frame Armenia as a recurring focal point of international aid, tracing shifting transnational networks of relief across the Ottoman, Tsarist, Soviet, and post-independence periods. Geographically the chapters range across the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Individual essays treat relief during the Hamidian massacres, Russian imperial responses, Norwegian relief operations, Australian and Brazilian campaigns, diaspora philanthropy, post-1988 earthquake aid, peacebuilding, and Syrian Armenian refugees. Closing reflections come from refugee historian Peter Gatrell and Armenian studies scholar Ronald Grigor Suny. The collection positions the Armenian case as central to the global history of humanitarianism rather than a footnote to it.
