ABSTRACT
The memory of the Genocide has been the most formative experience in the identity of the Armenian Diaspora and is at the core of the conflict with Turkey. This chapter proposes that it is by engaging memory and history that conflict resolution, and even reconciliation, may take place. It is the active memory of genocide that may provide a new space for reconciliation, a space constructed through acknowledgement of responsibility. The chapter explores this through comparative examination of how other nations deal with their own historical crimes and injustices, as a way to rethink the Armenian-Turkish conflict. The international community refuses to rank legally the various crimes, and the International Criminal Court treats all crimes as of equal gravity. The chapter concludes with the memory of the Armenian Genocide and support a constructive engagement between Armenian and Turkish historians, preferably the formation of a formal historical commission by the countries.
