Gerard Libaridian

Gerard Jirair Libaridian (Armenian: Ժիրայր Լիպարիտեան, born 1945 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Armenian American historian and politician.[1].

Gerard Libaridian
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1993–1994
PresidentLevon Ter-Petrosyan
Personal details
Born1945
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityArmenian, American
OccupationHistorian, Politician
Websitehttp://libaridian.com/

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

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

  1. "PROF. GERARD J. LIBARIDIAN" Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. University of Michigan.
  2. "Gerard Libaridian | Conciliation Resources". www.c-r.org. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  3. "Gerard Libaridian - armeniapedia.org". www.armeniapedia.org. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
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