Mihran Dabag
Mihran Dabag (* 1944 in Diyarbakır , Turkey ) is a German scientist and journalist of Armenian origin. He is a professor at the Faculty of History at the Ruhr University Bochum and head of the Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research at the Ruhr University Bochum .
Mihran Dabag studied philosophy, history, sociology and political science in Bonn and Bochum. He has published numerous books on violence, genocide and colonialism and is the editor of the journal for genocide research . Mihran Dabag received the Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize in 2003 .
Dabag is of the opinion that only the recognition of a genocide enables a real processing of the history in detail and refers here to the international lawyer Raphael Lemkin , who coined the term genocide and was significantly involved in the UN Genocide Convention of 1948. Like Lemkin, he is of the opinion that the legal and political recognition of a genocide is the necessary prerequisite for his historical research, since otherwise all employment would be forced into a circle of denial and its refutation. Dabag also relates this to Turkey's accession to the EU and the Armenian genocide and is of the opinion that recognition of the genocide on the part of Turkey should be made a prerequisite for EU accession, as already in a resolution of the EU Parliament adopted.
Honors
- 2003: Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize [of the Center against Expulsions]
- 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts (selection)
As an author:
- Löwith's criticism of the philosophy of history and his draft of an anthropology. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-710-5 (dissertation, University of Bochum, 1986).
As editor:
- with Kristin Platt : Identity abroad. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1993, ISBN 3-8196-0134-1 .
- with Kristin Platt: Generation and Memory. Memories and collective identities. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1233-5 .
- with Kristin Platt: Genocide and Modernity. Volume 1: Structures of Collective Violence in the 20th Century. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1822-8 .
- with Antje Kapust and Bernhard Waldenfels (eds.): violence. Structures, forms, representations. Fink, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3411-5 .
- with Horst founder and Uwe K. Ketelsen (ed.): Colonialism. Colonial Discourse and Genocide. Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-4070-0 .
- with Kristin Platt: The feasibility of the world. How man discovers himself as the subject of history. Fink, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7705-3949-4 .
- with Kristin Platt: Loss and Legacy. Survivors of the Armenian genocide remember. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78148-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mihran Dabag in the catalog of the German National Library
- Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research
- RUB researcher receives the Franz Werfel human rights award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dabag, Mihran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diyarbakır , Turkey |