26.09.2025


Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), Dr. Edita Gzoyan, awarded Dr. Yves Ternon, a renowned French genocide scholar, with the AGMI Raphael Lemkin Commemorative Medal for his significant contribution and in-depth research in the field of Armenian Genocide studies.

The award ceremony took place within the framework of the international training course titled “Interrogating the ‘Never Again’: The Holocaust and Mass Atrocities”, held in Yerevan from September 24 to 26.

The course was jointly organized by Yerevan State University, the Embassies of France and Germany in Armenia, and the Shoah Memorial in Paris. The second day of the seminar was entirely hosted at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, focusing on the study of the Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

During the day, Dr. Suren Manukyan, Head of the Vahakn Dadrian Department of Comparative Genocide Studies at AGMI, delivered a lecture titled “How is it Humanly Possible? The Genocide against the Armenians.” The second speaker, Élodie Gavriloff, presented a lecture entitled “Artsakh Ethnic Cleansing.”

The day concluded with a round-table discussion titled “Armenian Genocide Memorial”, which featured Dr. Yves Ternon, Dr. Edita Gzoyan, and Dr. Harutyun Marutyan, Head of the AGMI Department for the Study of the Repressions against Armenians in Artsakh, Nakhichevan, and Other Armenian-Populated Regions of Azerbaijan.