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Paylan, Sheila · Ashraph, Sareta, 2026
Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford Academic), advance article mqaf055; DOI 10.1093/jicj/mqaf055
Examines the September 2023 mass exodus of over 100,000 ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and the legal implications of Armenia's ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC. Analyzes potential ICC intervention focused on the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution, drawing on the Court's Rohingya territorial-jurisdiction approach. Assesses complementary accountability avenues before the ECtHR and ICJ and the obstacles Armenia faces. The corresponding author is based in Yerevan.
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Tatikyan, Sossi, 2024
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 62–95 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0051
Tests the terminology used to describe Azerbaijan's 2020–2023 depopulation of Nagorno-Karabakh's indigenous Armenians ('genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' 'forced displacement,' 'voluntary exodus') against international law. Reviews the hard and hybrid coercive methods Azerbaijan used and concludes the de-Armenization constitutes ethnic cleansing and legally meets most genocide criteria, while noting a formal genocide claim is politically fraught. The author is a PhD researcher at Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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Iskandaryan, Gayane, 2023
MA thesis, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); eScholarship
Examines how the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994), the 1988 Spitak earthquake, and the collapse of the USSR triggered a mass wave of Soviet Armenian refugees and migrants into the diaspora, especially Los Angeles County. Argues these crises 'broached the Iron Curtain,' reconnecting a polarized diaspora with the homeland while simultaneously driving a mass exodus out of it. Explores the nuanced, sometimes tense relationship between long-settled Armenian-Americans and newly arrived Soviet Armenians. Places Artsakh and homeland crises at the center of modern diaspora-homeland dynamics.
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von Joeden-Forgey, Elisa, 2023
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (AGMI, Yerevan)
By the executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: chronicles how Azerbaijan's September 2023 attack on Artsakh displaced virtually the entire indigenous Armenian population despite over a year of explicit warnings from genocide scholars. Analyzes why prevention failed, diplomatic silences shaped by geopolitical interests provided cover for the crime, and argues the Artsakh genocide inaugurates a 'new New Imperialism.'
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Krzysztan, Bartłomiej, 2021
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (AGMI, Yerevan)
Asks how the two defining narratives of modern Armenian identity, the Genocide and the Karabakh conflict, are linked in Armenian political discourse. Using discourse analysis, expert interviews, questionnaires, and ethnographic fieldwork, shows how historical analogy binds the two traumas into a single memory framework shaping nation- and state-building in post-Soviet Armenia.
