This research is intended to supplement the existing literature on the role of the Syrian Armenian Community (SAC) in the Syrian conflict by offering a study of the Armenian diaspora in international conflict, informed by an explicit analytical and conceptual framework and based on a detailed empirical case. There is less research explicitly on the role of the SAC in the Syrian conflict that began with anti-regime protests in 2011 and escalated into sectarian violence and civil war. The Syrian conflict was internationalized when the United States, the West and Turkey supported the opposition and Russia, Iran and the Lebanese Hizbullah supported the regime. The role of the Syrian Armenians in the conflict was not researched by scholars. A major exception was the work of Simon Payaslian, who wrote about the Armenian community in Syria. The Syrian Armenians are the descendants of the Armenians who lived in the Ottoman Empire and who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide. The normative aim of this study is to attempt to find patterns of diasporic activity in conflict such as to support positive activities and discourage negative activities. The Armenians of Syria shared a number of characteristics identified by William Safran concerning diasporan communities, including the maintenance of “a collective memory” regarding the homeland, the determination to maintain relations with the homeland and the eventual return. Theoretically, this research invades the discipline of political science and international relations and establishes a conflict management analytical framework. This study investigates the role of the SAC in politics and in different phases of what conflict resolution theorists sometimes call the “conflict cycle”. The Syrian conflict that occurred in an unstructured environment, like civil war, rebellion or terrorism, let the parties consider each other as a threat and act violently against each other. Methodologically, and borrowing from Jacob Bercovitch, we argue that each phase of a conflict denotes different types of behavior, different potential for conflict management and different options for intervention by a diasporic community. Related to these phases there are possible arenas, such as political, military, economic and socio-cultural, in which diasporic communities can exercise influence in the course of a conflict. This study concludes by stressing that the historical context of the SAC enables analysts and policy makers to understand the interests, aspirations and objectives of diasporic communities as actors in international conflict.