Vicken Cheterian (research faculty in the media department at Webster Geneva Campus)
has just published his new book 'Open Wounds, Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide'
with Hurst & Co. in London. It is a research into a century of mass violence, its
origins and consequences. Cheterian asks what happens if a major crime on the magnitude
of a genocide happens while the international political class pretends nothing has
happened? In the case of the Genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during
the First World War now a century ago is exactly that case. This book is a research
on the consequences of the failure of international justice on a monumental scale,
yet the recent debate about taking shape within Turkey on the fate of the Ottoman
Armenians constitutes a source of hope. (www.hurstpublishers.com/book/open-wounds/)
ISIS and the Killing Fields of the Middle East, Survival, Vol 57, Issue 2, 2015, pp.
105-118.
In this article Cheterian traces the origins and evolution of the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and how it differs of other salafi-jihadi movements like al-Qaeda
a generation back. The article appeared in Survival, the prestigious publication of
London based International Institute for Strategic Studies: (www.iiss.org/publications/survival)