Gerard Libaridian
Appearance
Gerard Libaridian | |
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 1993–1994 | |
President | Levon Ter-Petrosyan |
Personal details | |
Born | 1945 Beirut, Lebanon |
Nationality | Armenian, American |
Occupation | Historian, Politician |
Website | http://libaridian.com/ |
Gerard Jirair Libaridian (Armenian: Ժիրայր Լիպարիտեան, born 1945 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Armenian American historian and politician.[1].
Biography
From 1991 to 1997, he served as adviser, and then senior adviser to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and was closely involved in the Karabakh negotiations.[2] In 2007, Libaridian was appointed the Director of Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan.[3] He holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan.
Awards
- 1999 Alumnus of the Year (Social Sciences), California State University
- 2000 Man of the Year, Knights of Vartan
Selected works
- 1984 (as editor): What Is to Be Asked?, ed., Proceedings of Colloquium, Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
- 1985 (as editor): A Crime of Silence. The Armenian Genocide. Zed Books, ISBN 978-0862324247
- 1988 (as editor) The Karabagh File. Documents and Facts, 1918-1988 (ed.). Zoryan Institute, Cambridge and Toronto
- 1990 (as editor) The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms Against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan, Caratzas and Zoryan Institute
- 1991: (as editor) Armenia at the Crossroads: Democracy and Nationhood in the Post-Soviet Era: Essays, interviews, and speeches by the leaders of the national democratic movement in Armenia. Blue Crane Books (Watertown, Massachusetts), ISBN 978-0-9628715-1-1
- 1999: The Challenge of Statehood. Armenian Political Thinking since Independence
- 2006 (as editor) Demokratizatsiya (Washington, DC)
- 2007: Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State. Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, New Jersey), ISBN 978-1-4128-0648-0
References
- ^ "PROF. GERARD J. LIBARIDIAN" Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. University of Michigan.
- ^ "Gerard Libaridian | Conciliation Resources". www.c-r.org. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ^ "Gerard Libaridian - armeniapedia.org". www.armeniapedia.org. Retrieved 2019-12-31.