Autor: Shahkeh Yaylaian Setian

The daughter of genocide survivors, Dr. Setian is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has three children and five grandchildren and lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is sensitive to injustice and human rights violations and is dedicated to helping create a just and peaceful world. She lived for a year as an independent volunteer in solidarity with the people that she wanted to help and whom she came to love in post-war Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), a country that was recovering from the little-known war and attempted ethnic cleansing by neighboring Azerbaijan, a Turkish cohort, against the citizens of the Armenian enclave. She taught at Springfield College, Massachusetts; Cape Cod Community College; and Artsakh State University, has facilitated workshops and presented talks about genocide, injustice, and values. She has earned awards for short stories; has had several articles published, including photojournalist newspaper articles; and coedited two volumes for the Values Realization Institute.