Panelists
Panelists
PANEL ONE. MISUSE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND RISK OF GENOCIDE
Armen Marsoobian
Armen T. Marsoobian, Ph.D, is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Affiliated Faculty of Institute of Human Rights at University of Connecticut. He was the Ordjanian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Columbia University in Spring 2022. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the philosophy journal, Metaphilosophy and is currently First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, in addition to serving on the boards of Columbia University’s Armenian Center, the Yale Genocide Studies Program, the Society for Armenian Studies, and the Community Advisory Committee of Alice K. Norian Program at University of Connecticut. More
Armen Marsoobian
Armen T. Marsoobian, Ph.D, is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Affiliated Faculty of Institute of Human Rights at University of Connecticut. He was the Ordjanian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Columbia University in Spring 2022. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the philosophy journal, Metaphilosophy and is currently First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, in addition to serving on the boards of Columbia University’s Armenian Center, the Yale Genocide Studies Program, the Society for Armenian Studies, and the Community Advisory Committee of Alice K. Norian Program at University of Connecticut. More
Narek Poghosyan
Studies of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Narek Poghosyan was born on April 15, 1991, in the village of Tsovagyugh, Gegharkunik province of Armenia. From 1998 to 2008, he studied at the secondary school n/a Muratsan in Tsovagyugh village. From 2008-2012, he studied at the Faculty of International Relations of the Yerevan State University. From 2012 to 2014, he studied at the International Scientific and Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, getting a Master’s Degree in International Relations.More
Narek Poghosyan
Studies of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Narek Poghosyan was born on April 15, 1991, in the village of Tsovagyugh, Gegharkunik province of Armenia. From 1998 to 2008, he studied at the secondary school n/a Muratsan in Tsovagyugh village. From 2008-2012, he studied at the Faculty of International Relations of the Yerevan State University. From 2012 to 2014, he studied at the International Scientific and Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, getting a Master’s Degree in International Relations.More
Elisenda Calvet Martínez is assistant Professor of International Law, coordinator of the Legal Clinic for the Fight against Impunity and assistant to the Vice dean of Research and International Relations of the Faculty of Law at the University of Barcelona. She has worked for the Spanish Red Cross, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.More
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Elisenda Calvet Martínez is assistant Professor of International Law, coordinator of the Legal Clinic for the Fight against Impunity and assistant to the Vice dean of Research and International Relations of the Faculty of Law at the University of Barcelona. She has worked for the Spanish Red Cross, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.More
Ethiopia
Bahru Zewde, currently Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, is Founding Fellow and founding Principal Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He was formerly Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. He has served in leadership positions in various pan-African and national civic organisations, notably as Executive Director of the independent think tank, Forum for Social Studies, Vice President of the Association of African Historians, as well as Editor of a number of journals and member of International Advisory Boards. He is the recipient of numerous awards and Fellowships and author of several books and scores of articles and book chapters on Ethiopian and African history.
Bahru Zewde, currently Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, is Founding Fellow and founding Principal Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He was formerly Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. He has served in leadership positions in various pan-African and national civic organisations, notably as Executive Director of the independent think tank, Forum for Social Studies, Vice President of the Association of African Historians, as well as Editor of a number of journals and member of International Advisory Boards. He is the recipient of numerous awards and Fellowships and author of several books and scores of articles and book chapters on Ethiopian and African history.
Christopher Tuckwood is the co-founder and executive director of the Sentinel Project, an organization dedicated to assisting communities threatened by mass atrocities through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology. Chris has particularly focused on the organization’s misinformation management efforts. He’s led the growth of this work in places such as Kenya, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and refugee settlements in Uganda. Chris also contributed to the establishment of the Hatebase hate speech monitoring initiative, which focused on building the world’s largest multilingual database of online hate speech by combining human networks and automated monitoring.More
Christopher Tuckwood is the co-founder and executive director of the Sentinel Project, an organization dedicated to assisting communities threatened by mass atrocities through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology. Chris has particularly focused on the organization’s misinformation management efforts. He’s led the growth of this work in places such as Kenya, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and refugee settlements in Uganda. Chris also contributed to the establishment of the Hatebase hate speech monitoring initiative, which focused on building the world’s largest multilingual database of online hate speech by combining human networks and automated monitoring.More
Philippe Boukara
Education Program Coordinator, Historian, Shoah Memorial, France
Philippe Boukara, a French historian, has been appointed Coordinator of Adult Education in the Mémorial de la Shoah, in Paris, on 1 October 2005. In this capacity, he is in charge of training programs for teachers and policemen.
Prior to his appointment, Mr Boukara had begun teaching Contemporary History in the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, from 2000 until 2010, and in Nancy II University, from 1995 until 2005. He is a specialist of Contemporary French Jewry, the author of numerous contributions in this field for academic publications, more recently in Allied Liberation of Concentration Camps and Ghettos (1944-1945). Sources, Historiography and InstructionMore
Philippe Boukara
Education Program Coordinator, Historian, Shoah Memorial, France
Philippe Boukara, a French historian, has been appointed Coordinator of Adult Education in the Mémorial de la Shoah, in Paris, on 1 October 2005. In this capacity, he is in charge of training programs for teachers and policemen.
Prior to his appointment, Mr Boukara had begun teaching Contemporary History in the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, from 2000 until 2010, and in Nancy II University, from 1995 until 2005. He is a specialist of Contemporary French Jewry, the author of numerous contributions in this field for academic publications, more recently in Allied Liberation of Concentration Camps and Ghettos (1944-1945). Sources, Historiography and InstructionMore