Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839
Why have Armenian-Turkish-Azerbaijani relations failed to improve in recent years? What has been proposed for peace and relationship stabilization and development? But, are the power relations so out of balance among them that these are almost stupid yet nonetheless necessary questions? Dr. Steiner will summarize the current conflicted situation and its background in an analysis applicable beyond the South Caucasus. This includes naming the traumatic events, past and present, which all these people experienced relevant to their relationships with each other. Others’ proposals for peace and relationship improvement will then be listed. To them, Dr. Steiner will add hers: working with the effects of collective psychological trauma, past, intergenerational, and present. For more than two decades, Dr. Steiner, while practicing depth psychotherapy with traumatized individuals, has co-facilitated conflict resolution workshops, mostly between Israelis and Palestinians and between Armenians and Turks. She observed the failure of conflict resolution processes, asked why, and offered some likely answers in her book, Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839. Her talk will propose specific ways to actualize her proposals. Her understanding and recommendations are presented in two non-psychological contexts -- accountability through international law and power politics -- within which international conflict resolution must be forged. Accessibility
Why have Armenian-Turkish-Azerbaijani relations failed to improve in recent years? What has been proposed for peace and relationship stabilization and development? But, are the power relations so out of balance among them that these are almost stupid yet nonetheless necessary questions? Dr. Steiner will summarize the current conflicted situation and its background in an analysis applicable beyond the South Caucasus. This includes naming the traumatic events, past and present, which all these people experienced relevant to their relationships with each other. Others’ proposals for peace and relationship improvement will then be listed. To them, Dr. Steiner will add hers: working with the effects of collective psychological trauma, past, intergenerational, and present. For more than two decades, Dr. Steiner, while practicing depth psychotherapy with traumatized individuals, has co-facilitated conflict resolution workshops, mostly between Israelis and Palestinians and between Armenians and Turks. She observed the failure of conflict resolution processes, asked why, and offered some likely answers in her book, Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839. Her talk will propose specific ways to actualize her proposals. Her understanding and recommendations are presented in two non-psychological contexts -- accountability through international law and power politics -- within which international conflict resolution must be forged. Accessibility