Berghahn Books Unsilencing the Past: Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation

"Phillips's firsthand information and analysis are extremely useful...an indispensable source...a profound, interesting, and challenging book." · Peace, Conflict and Development: An Interdisciplinary Journal The Turkish-Armenian conflict has lasted for nearly a century and still continues in attenuated forms to poison the relationship between these two peoples. The author, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously advisor to the United Nations, undertook, as head of the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Committee, to bring the two sides together and to work with them towards a peaceful resolution of the enmity that had made any contact between them taboo.