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- 1. The Last Liturgy
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Komitas’s Sacred Harmony Before the Silence, the Last Liturgy
Hratch Tchilingirian | 24 April 2025
During the chaos of World War I in Constantinople, Komitas Vardapet began composing a version of the Armenian Divine Liturgy (Badarak) for a male choir. Due to military exemptions for some educators and church servants, including a few from the Armenian Church in Galata (Istanbul neighborhood), Komitas gathered a group of about 25–30 young men and worked intensely—sometimes day and night—to train them and compose the choral arrangements, carefully crafting each voice part as its own unique melody....
2025-04-26 - 2. Azerbaijan’s International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges
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Azerbaijan's International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges
EVN Report, 14 January 2025 [Armenian version]
The Azerbaijani state has embarked on a concerted effort to enhance its international image following the Second Karabakh War in 2020 and especially since the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Armenians orchestrated by
2025-01-24 - 3. Being Armenian is a package
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Hratch Tchilingirian, “’Being Armenian is a package.’ Some critical issues facing Diaspora organizations today,” in H. Oshagan and Kh. Tölölyan (eds.), The Diaspora at 100. (Boston: The Armenian Weekly), June 2024: 60-61.
2024-07-18 - 4. Ethnic Cleansing: Does International Law Still Matter?
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Human Rights Violations and Aggression subject of Bishop Grigoris Balakian Annual Lecture
Diocesan Newsletter. London, 20 March 2024— Critical issues of ethnic cleansing and international law was the subject of the inaugural Bishop Grigoris Balakian Annual Lecture, a new initiative of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Two distinguished speakers, Lord Alton of Liverpool and Dr Arman Tatoyan delivered compelling lectures on the topic of “Ethnic Cleansing: Does International Law Still Matter?” at St. Yeghiche Armenian Church in London on March 19th.
In setting the larger context of the annual lecture, Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, in his opening remarks as chair of the proceedings, said: “We are here tonight because “‘Never Again’ is again, and again, and again… We are gathered because crimes against humanity and human rights abuses are being committed before our very eyes from the Middle East to the Caucasus, to Eastern Europe, Asia, Central America and many parts of the world.”
2024-04-19 - 5. Tölölyan Honored as Preeminent Scholar of Diaspora Studies
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Tölölyan Honored as Preeminent Scholar of Diaspora StudiesCynthia Rockwel l The Wesleyan Connection, November 12, 2019... Director of the ADS, Hratch Tchilingirian, associate of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, thanked Tölölyan for his service on the project, noting “In addition to his brilliant scholarship and numerous academic accolades, Khachig Tölölyan is a wonderful human being. He shares his enormous, accumulated wisdom with intellectual humility; engages with everyone with grace and empathy; and empowers others with generous and sincere acknowledgment and encouragement.”2024-03-07 - 6. New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds
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New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds
Two historical adversaries edge towards rapprochement with an eye on opening trade routes to Central Asia and beyond
"...Now though, “We’ve come 180 degrees,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, told Asia Times, “and there’s a completely different context.”
2022-01-13 - 7. Why It Matters
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Why It Matters: Armenia defiant against Turkey, Azerbaijan despite shrinking borders
By Peter Aitken | Fox News November 15, 2021
... "I think we’re back to square one in the sense that what started as a conflict between self-determination of the Karabakh Armenians and the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan…30 years later, this conflict has not been resolved, even despite the war, even despite Azerbaijan saying there is no longer Karabakh conflict," Hratch Tchilingirian, a scholar and activist, told Fox News...
2021-11-20 - 8. Nagorno-Karabakh: War Fails to Resolve the Conflict
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Hratch Tchilingirian (2021) "Nagorno-Karabakh: War Fails to Resolve the Conflict", The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art (CJLPA), Issue 1, Summer 2021: 398-400.
Imagine Boris Johnson ordering the bombing of Edinburgh because the Scots voted for independence in a referendum, or the British Government declaring war against Northern Ireland because it wished to join the Republic of Ireland. Unlike the political dialogue and the search for legal remedies that dissatisfied nations of the United Kingdom utilise to resolve their conflicts, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, who have been natives of the territory for centuries, have been the target of years of demonisation in Azerbaijan for voting for independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing.
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2021-06-29 - 9. Network Nation: Crisis
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Network Nation, USC Institute of Armenian Studies, 14 May 2021
Covid and the Karabakh War impacted institutions in the Diaspora, and changed Homeland-Diaspora relations. Or did they? Are Armenians a Crisis Nation – mobilizing urgently but not altering fundamentally? Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan joins Dr. Laurie Brand, Dr. Vicken Cheterian, Dr. Shushan Karapetian and Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian to analyze short and long-term impact.
2021-06-28 - 10. Religion in a Non Religious War
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"Religion in a Non-Religious War: The Conflict over Nagorno Karabakh"
Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford
Strategic Note on Religion & Diplomacy (Georgetown University), May 2021, pp. 8-10.
The instrumentalization of religion—especially Islam by Azerbaijan in foreign relations—in the nonreligious Nagorno Karabakh conflict could further deepen the differences among the parties in the conflict and in the region, and make a final resolution and reconciliation even more difficult.
2021-05-28 - 11. Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
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Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
Biden's curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. . .“there was no additional strategic risk for the US in doing this,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from Oxford University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, told Asia Times...
2021-04-27 - 12. Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık
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Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık: Azerbaycan’ın Tarihi Yeniden Yazma Çabaları Yeni Değil
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford Üniversitesi
HyeTert.org, 9.12.2020 - Karabağ’da silahlı çatışma başlamadan çok daha önce, bölgenin gerçek tarihini ‘ispatlama’ çabaları, tarihçiler, siyaset bilimi uzmanları, arkeologlar, araştırmacılar ve bürokratlar için akademik ve bilimsel bir savaş alanıydı. Sovyet araştırma geleneği, özellikle de tarihin inşası süreci, oldukça yıkıcıydı ve hala da çatışan tarafların...2021-03-29 - 13. Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New
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Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford
EVN Report / MassisPost / Aravot (22 November 2020)—Long before the start of the armed conflict in Karabakh, the “authentication” of the history of the region had become the scholarly battleground of historians, political scientists, archaeologists, researchers and bureaucrats. The consequences of Soviet scholarship—particularly in the process of constructing histories—have been disastrous and continue to have a negative impact on how conflicting parties view “the other.” It should be noted that, even today,
2020-11-24 - 14. We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
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We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
CivilNet / HyeTert / Massis Post 11 November 2020
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford
As one of the nations in this world, whose millennia-long biography is the envy of the world, we should not allow some anomalous, self-interested forces, circles or personalities trample the national wisdom we have gained through myriads of imposed wars, destruction and displacement.
2020-11-24 - 15. Publications & lectures about Nagorno Karabakh
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Book
Hratch Tchilingirian (2003) The Struggle for Independence in the post-Soviet South Caucasus: Karabakh and Abkhazia. (London: Sandringham House, 2003).
Chapters / journal articles / lectures
Hratch Tchilingirian (2023) “Reverse Engineering: A State-Created ‘Albanian Apostolic Church’” in Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Edited by Jost Gippert and Jasmine Dum-Tragut. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023: 581-609, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-019.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2021) "Nagorno-Karabakh: War Fails to Resolve the Conflict", The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art (CJLPA), Issue 1, Summer 2021: 398-400.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2021) "Religion in a Non-Religious War: The Conflict over Nagorno Karabakh", Strategic Note on Religion & Diplomacy (Georgetown University), May 2021, pp. 8-10.
Hratch Tchilingirain (2021) "Christians in Karabakh. The rich religious heritage in Artsakh from 4th to 21st century” (lecture video), Diocese of the Armenian Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 12 May 2021.
Hratch Tchilingirain (2020), "Crisis in the Caucasus: Nagorno Karabakh" (lecture video). University of St. Andrews La Fayette Club, 9 November 2020.
Hratch Tchilingirain (2020) "Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New", EVN Report, 22 November.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2020) "Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık: Azerbaycan’ın Tarihi Yeniden Yazma Çabaları Yeni Değil", HyeTert.org, 9 December 2020.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2018) [Christianity in] “Armenia and Karabkah” in Christianity in North Africa and West Asia (edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Mariz Tadros, Todd M. Johnson). Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 198-201.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2005) “New Structures, Old Foundations. State Capacities for Peace”, Accord. An International Review of Peace Initiatives. Issue 17.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1999) “Nagorno Karabagh: transition and the elite”, Central Asian Survey, 18(4).
Hratch Tchilingirian (1998) “Le conflit du Haut-Karabagh provoque des changements majeurs en Arménie”, Nouveaux Mondes, No. 8, Été. Centre de Recherches Entreprises et Sociétés, Geneva.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1997) “Religious Discourse and the Church in Mountainous Karabakh 1988-1995”, Revue du monde arménien moderne et contemporain (Paris) 3.
Articles
Hratch Tchilingirian (2000) “Psychological Welfare. Healing the Emotional Scars of the Karabakh War”, Armenian International Magazine, January. “Savaş çocuklarının gȍzüyle”, Agos, 19 Ocak.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1999) “The Istanbul Summit: Fifty-Four Nations Discuss Regional Security and Conflicts”, Armenian International Magazine, December.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1999) “Back In Karabakh. Diocese of Artsakh Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Re-establishment”, Armenian International Magazine, October.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1999) “From Activism to Diplomacy. Karabakh finds a place in the geostrategic architecture of the Caucasus”, Armenian International Magazine, April.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1999) “Berg-Karabach: Die Außenpolitik im Wandel”, Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz (ADK), No. 103, Heft 1; No. 104, 1999, Heft 2.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1998) “Aliyev Invites Kocharian. Global Strategies Shape Regional Developments”, Groong: Review & Outlook, August 14.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1998) “Current Social, Economic and Political Situation in Nagorno Karabakh. Interview with Karen Ohanjanian”, ANN/Groong, March 31.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1998) “Political Crisis in Armenia. Armenia faces its first major post-Soviet leadership change”, Groong: Review & Outlook. February 6.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1997) “Nagorno Karabakh: A Time for Thoughtfulness?”, War Report, No. 56, November.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1995) “Karabakh: Edging Towards the Big Agreement”, War Report, No. 34, June.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1997) “Karabakh: Internationalising the Enclave”, War Report, No. 50, April.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1997) “Armenia: Rebooting the Political Hard Drive”, War Report, No. 50, April.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1996) “Armenia/Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh Impasse”, Oxford Analytica, December 6.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1996) “On Campus in Karabakh”, Armenian International Magazine, April.
Hratch Tchilingirian (1995) "Interview with Emma Gabrielyan, Secretary of the Parliament of Mountainous Karabakh", Nairi (Beirut), 4 November.
2020-11-14 - 16. Home: The Nelly Boum Show
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"The Nelly Boum Show - HOME // 04 October 2020 on Mixcloud2020-10-19 - 17. Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Armenian Diaspora Survey
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Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Armenian Diaspora Survey
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 23 May 2019
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in partnership with the Armenian Institute of London, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian as the Director of the Armenian Diaspora Survey (ADS) project.
2019-06-12 - 18. A decade-long goodbye for a journey cut short
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Published in
A decade-long goodbye for a journey cut short
In Memoriam: Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan (1956-2019)
Hratch Tchilingirian | CivilNet.am 10 March 2019
Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan was one of the most courageous, principled and forward looking church leaders in the contemporary history of the Armenian Church. His youth, charisma, strong pastoral and
2019-03-11 - 19. Armenian Khatchkar in Canterbury
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Armenian Khatchkar in the Canterbury Cathedral’s Memorial Garden
Hratch Tchilingirian | 2 March 2019
A new Armenian khatchkar (cross stone) was consecrated in the Canterbury Cathedral’s Memorial Garden on Friday March 2nd. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby presided over the ceremony.
2019-03-05 - 20. The Syrian-Armenian 'refugee' jewellers of Yerevan
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The Syrian-Armenian 'refugee' jewellers of Yerevan
"They've had to start from zero, and obviously, they've had their difficulties," said Hratch Tchilingirian, a sociologist and associate faculty member at the University of Oxford, who specialises in Middle Eastern and Armenian studies.
2019-02-07
