Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
May 12 2005

On genocide, healing
Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dr. Pamela Steiner of Cambridge will speak at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont on
Thursday, May 19 at 8 p.m., on “When a Traumatized People Tries to
Resolve Past Hurts.”

Healing and resolution following the trauma of genocide may
require special kinds of dialogue and action, and in the case of the
Armenian Genocide this calls for engagement both within the Armenian
and Turkish communities and between them. Steiner will talk about
steps that the Armenian community could consider to augment efforts
to gain recognition about the genocide and to achieve healing and
resolution.

As a member of the Program on International Conflict Analysis
and Resolution at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard
University, Steiner has been a member of interdisciplinary teams
working with traumatized communities. She has conducted workshops and
dialogues between Israeli Jews and Palestinians, Germans and Jews,
and Greeks and Turks, as well as written articles and given
presentations on a wide range of issues in conflict resolution, mass
trauma, and intergroup dynamics. As a psychotherapist, she has worked
with individuals who have been traumatized by a range of horrors.

Steiner is the great-granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau, the
American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time when the
Armenian Genocide began.

The NAASR Center and Headquarters is located at 395 Concord
Ave., Belmont Center. Admission to the event is free (donations
appreciated). For more information call 617-489-1610, or e-mail hq@naasr.org.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress