USC to host “Decades After Genocide – Is Justice Possible?” talkAugust 20, 2015 - 10:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The 1915 Armenian Genocide as well as the massacre of nearly 2 million people four decades ago in Cambodia cases will be the topic of discussion as the USC Institute of Armenian Studies welcomes international criminal prosecutor Nicholas Koumjian to its series of lunchtime talks at the USC Ground Zero Coffeehouse on Sept 3, Asbarez reports. Koumjian will be in conversation with USC Professor Hannah Garry. Their topic: Decades After Genocide – Is Justice Possible? Koumjian is currently United Nations International Co-Prosecutor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Prior to this posting, he was Senior Appeals Counsel for the prosecution of the former President of Liberia at The Hague. Koumjian also headed the UN-funded Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor, and was a trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dr. Hannah Garry is the founding director of USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic. Her areas of research include international criminal law, human rights law and refugee law. Professor Garry has been a Senior Legal Adviser to the Supreme Court Chamber in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and a visiting professor in the Presidency of the International Criminal Court. Salpi Ghazarian, the director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, said, “We are proud that our first luncheon event of this new academic year will feature guests of such distinction and we invite the community to the USC campus for this program. This, like our previous lunchtime programs, is not a lecture. It’s a conversation between two people who have spent many years studying these serious challenges. It’s an especially important conversation to be having on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, as the term itself continues to cause political conflict.” Related links: Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. Power of One Dram sums up two-year program with Teach for Armenia Idram Junior also joined the companies during the visit, bringing with it a fascinating intellectual game for children Yerevan Mayor to travel to Paris on May 15-19 The official delegation headed by Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan will travel to Paris from May 15 to 19. Armenia, India hold first defense consultations The meeting was attended by Indian Ambassador Nilakshi Saha Sinha and Defense Attaché Brigadier General Naveen Nijhawan. |