Almost a hundred years after the mass killing of over a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, the subject is still an open wound for both Armenians and Turks.

While most scholars agree that what happened in 1915 constitutes a genocide, Turkey refuses to accept the term, in part, says sociologist Samantha Power, because they "don't want to be put in the same company as Hitler." For Armenians, though, acknowledgment is a necessary first step towards coming to terms with the past.

The fourth instalment of "The Circle of Genocide" film and debate series was about reconciliation and coming to terms in the aftermath of mass violence. The controversial case of the Armenian genocide served as the starting point for the evening's discussion, organised by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The evening began with a screening of the 2006 PBS documentary "The Armenian Genocide" - which laid out the events of 1915 and strongly criticised Turkey for failing to recognize the events as a genocide. The subsequent discussion tackled the issue of reconciliation, can there be reconciliation without recognition on the perpetrators' side of what actually happened?

We'd like to know what you think. Is it ever possible for victims and perpetrators to reconcile after a genocide or mass killing? If so, what conditions need to be met before a society can start to heal its wounds?

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