Maria Armoudian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Armoudian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Armoudian |
| SIGNATURE | ARMOUDIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6376-8015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations
This article examines a 40-year policy history of efforts to redress survivors of egregious violations, such as torture, massacres, and genocides. Using oral history interviews and document analysis, it first focused on the ideas and creative advocacy that undergirded a burgeoning redress movement. By juxtaposing classic ideas with a relatively obscure statute (the Alien Tort Statute or ATS) and modern strategies, advocates won an improbable cour…
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach
How Soon We Forget: National Myth-Making and Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
Scholars in genocide studies have covered much ground in identifying causes and consequences of genocides. But much less has been done in the area of genocide recognitions: Why have countries recognized some genocides but not others? Strategic and economic relations with perpetrator states, or the influence of diasporan ethnic minorities are often assumed as causes, but we propose that conceptions of national identity may underlie these other fac…
The Realpolitik of small states: Explaining New Zealand’s silence on human rights violations in Turkey (Türkiye) and China
When and why do human rights-defending countries tolerate the actions of known rights violators? This paper examines that question using New Zealand’s bilateral relationships with the Republic of Turkey (also Türkiye) and the People’s Republic of China. The aim is to ascertain systematic regularities as to when and why New Zealand, a liberal democratic state with an expressed commitment to human rights, has been relatively mum on atrocities in Ch…
The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy
Why do conservation policies fail to prevent species extinctions and die-offs in contravention of stated intentions and goals? Bringing together a range of literature, including political ecology, political theory, conservation science, communication theory, environmental communication, with original data, this article explores this question, then addresses these failures within Aotearoa New Zealand's context. Using the New Zealand case, it offer…
Troubled Waters in New Zealand
Blessed with an extraordinary abundance of freshwater, New Zealand faces complex governance challenges of simultaneously protecting public health, powering the country, bolstering its economy, and honoring obligations to its Indigenous population—all which are water-dependent. In this article, we discuss New Zealand’s water quality challenges, water governance structure, and analyzed the framing of its water issues and polices by the country’s tw…
In search of a genocidal frame: Preliminary evidence from the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide
Research on genocide has provided a rich background of common structural, ideological and psychological antecedents that culminate in the attempted annihilation of a specific ethnic or religious group. Integrating the literature on framing, genocide, emotions and social psychology, this article first presents the concept of a master ‘genocidal frame’ and preliminary evidence from two modern-day genocides, Rwanda and Nazi Germany, where it located…
The frame changers: Journalists, the conflict, and peace process
This paper explores some of journalists’ struggles in gathering and framing news during the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Based on interviews with eight journalists who covered both periods, it details how they navigated what has been called a ‘propaganda war’ or what I call ‘frame wars’ that ran parallel with the physical conflict. These frame wars became complicating factors with which journalists grappled when seeking to produce…
Introducing new datasets on Northern Ireland’s media in the peace process and a test of newsworthiness in times of ‘troubles’
To assist researchers studying the relationships between mass media messages and escalating conflict or peace-building, this article introduces two new datasets generated from Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the critical period before the Belfast Peace Agreement’s ratification. The first, the Northern Ireland Media Dataset (NIMD), contains coded data from a stratified, systematic random sample of articles from the three daily newspapers plus av…
Constructing “the Others” During Conflict: How Journalism’s Norms and Structures Temper Extreme Portrayals
Psychologists and scholars of politics and political communication suggest that portrayals of “the others” impact emotions and behaviors toward them, particularly during conflict. When extremely negative, these portrayals can be used to justify harmful behaviors. Other scholars have found that the norms and structures of professional journalism can moderate extreme portrayals. This paper examines two factors that help construct “the others”—one t…
Constructing “the Others” During Conflict: How Journalism’s Norms and Structures Temper Extreme Portrayals
Psychologists and scholars of politics and political communication suggest that portrayals of “the others” impact emotions and behaviors toward them, particularly during conflict. When extremely negative, these portrayals can be used to justify harmful behaviors. Other scholars have found that the norms and structures of professional journalism can moderate extreme portrayals. This paper examines two factors that help construct “the others”—one t…
The frame changers: Journalists, the conflict, and peace process
This paper explores some of journalists’ struggles in gathering and framing news during the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Based on interviews with eight journalists who covered both periods, it details how they navigated what has been called a ‘propaganda war’ or what I call ‘frame wars’ that ran parallel with the physical conflict. These frame wars became complicating factors with which journalists grappled when seeking to produce…
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations
This article examines a 40-year policy history of efforts to redress survivors of egregious violations, such as torture, massacres, and genocides. Using oral history interviews and document analysis, it first focused on the ideas and creative advocacy that undergirded a burgeoning redress movement. By juxtaposing classic ideas with a relatively obscure statute (the Alien Tort Statute or ATS) and modern strategies, advocates won an improbable cour…
Constructing “the Others” During Conflict: How Journalism’s Norms and Structures Temper Extreme Portrayals
Psychologists and scholars of politics and political communication suggest that portrayals of “the others” impact emotions and behaviors toward them, particularly during conflict. When extremely negative, these portrayals can be used to justify harmful behaviors. Other scholars have found that the norms and structures of professional journalism can moderate extreme portrayals. This paper examines two factors that help construct “the others”—one t…
Introducing new datasets on Northern Ireland’s media in the peace process and a test of newsworthiness in times of ‘troubles’
To assist researchers studying the relationships between mass media messages and escalating conflict or peace-building, this article introduces two new datasets generated from Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the critical period before the Belfast Peace Agreement’s ratification. The first, the Northern Ireland Media Dataset (NIMD), contains coded data from a stratified, systematic random sample of articles from the three daily newspapers plus av…
The frame changers: Journalists, the conflict, and peace process
This paper explores some of journalists’ struggles in gathering and framing news during the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Based on interviews with eight journalists who covered both periods, it details how they navigated what has been called a ‘propaganda war’ or what I call ‘frame wars’ that ran parallel with the physical conflict. These frame wars became complicating factors with which journalists grappled when seeking to produce…
In search of a genocidal frame: Preliminary evidence from the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide
Research on genocide has provided a rich background of common structural, ideological and psychological antecedents that culminate in the attempted annihilation of a specific ethnic or religious group. Integrating the literature on framing, genocide, emotions and social psychology, this article first presents the concept of a master ‘genocidal frame’ and preliminary evidence from two modern-day genocides, Rwanda and Nazi Germany, where it located…
Troubled Waters in New Zealand
Blessed with an extraordinary abundance of freshwater, New Zealand faces complex governance challenges of simultaneously protecting public health, powering the country, bolstering its economy, and honoring obligations to its Indigenous population—all which are water-dependent. In this article, we discuss New Zealand’s water quality challenges, water governance structure, and analyzed the framing of its water issues and polices by the country’s tw…
The Realpolitik of small states: Explaining New Zealand’s silence on human rights violations in Turkey (Türkiye) and China
When and why do human rights-defending countries tolerate the actions of known rights violators? This paper examines that question using New Zealand’s bilateral relationships with the Republic of Turkey (also Türkiye) and the People’s Republic of China. The aim is to ascertain systematic regularities as to when and why New Zealand, a liberal democratic state with an expressed commitment to human rights, has been relatively mum on atrocities in Ch…
The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy
Why do conservation policies fail to prevent species extinctions and die-offs in contravention of stated intentions and goals? Bringing together a range of literature, including political ecology, political theory, conservation science, communication theory, environmental communication, with original data, this article explores this question, then addresses these failures within Aotearoa New Zealand's context. Using the New Zealand case, it offer…
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations
This article examines a 40-year policy history of efforts to redress survivors of egregious violations, such as torture, massacres, and genocides. Using oral history interviews and document analysis, it first focused on the ideas and creative advocacy that undergirded a burgeoning redress movement. By juxtaposing classic ideas with a relatively obscure statute (the Alien Tort Statute or ATS) and modern strategies, advocates won an improbable cour…
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach
How Soon We Forget: National Myth-Making and Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
Scholars in genocide studies have covered much ground in identifying causes and consequences of genocides. But much less has been done in the area of genocide recognitions: Why have countries recognized some genocides but not others? Strategic and economic relations with perpetrator states, or the influence of diasporan ethnic minorities are often assumed as causes, but we propose that conceptions of national identity may underlie these other fac…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Framing (construction (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)