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History and memory of genocides in international relations

Valérie Rosoux and Gaïdz Minassian

Lecture ◇ 16 April 2026

The Boghossian Foundation is honoured to welcome Valérie Rosoux, political scientist and specialist in the uses of memory in international relations. Just days before 24 April, the date commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915, she offers lines of reflection in a conversation with Gaïdz Minassian, journalist at Le Monde.

The twentieth century ushered in a long and macabre era marked by mass crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides. How can this grim singularity be explained, when all the instruments for the prevention and prosecution of crimes against humanity have been available to the international community since the aftermath of the Second World War? Why does such violence persist, at a time when the international system has never been so deeply integrated?

Valérie Rosoux is Research Director at the FNRS and Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research focuses on the uses of memory in international relations. She has just published Peace Processes as a Double Promise in the American journal International Negotiation. She regularly travels abroad in connection with her work, notably to Ukraine and the United States.

Gaïdz Minassian is a journalist for Le Monde and teaches at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

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