There will be a reception to launch the Armenian version of David Phillips’ "Unsilencing the Past: Track Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation" (Berghahn Books, 2005), on Thursday, February 4, at 6pm at the Sil Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. The book explains how the Turkish-Armenian Reconcilliation Commission (TARC) was created and the difficult task of bringing Armenians and Turks together. Mr. Phillips served as moderator on the commission. David Phillips is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has worked as a senior adviser to the US Department of State and the United Nations Secretariat.He has held academic positions as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for Middle East Studies and as a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Phillips is currently an Associate Professor at New York University's Graduate School of Politics and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.