Case Study on the Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Artsakh with Professor Van Krikorian

Please join us in welcoming Professor Van Z. Krikorian for a discussion about the evolving legal landscape surrounding genocide recognition with a focus on Armenia. More than a century after the Armenian Genocide, this talk turns to the case of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to illustrate a troubling reality: existing legal frameworks remain insufficient to prevent, address, or adequately remedy mass atrocities in the twenty-first century. The challenge that Professor Krikorian raises is to confront and reverse these increasingly damaging trends, reform that is essential for the protection of civilian lives in the face of atrocities that are, with increasing frequency, met with neither accountability nor meaningful compliance with established international standards.

Professor Krikorian is an Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School, attorney, and Chair and CEO of Global Gold Corporation. He served as Armenia’s Deputy Representative and Counselor at the United Nations in 1992 and on the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission from 2001 to 2004, and was awarded Armenia’s Medal of Honor in 2017. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions and has spent decades advocating on human rights issues, including authoring key provisions of the Freedom Support Act and the Foreign Assistance Act.