Agenda
The Local Roots of Global Peace:
Junior Voices on Global Security Studies Annual International Conference
June 23-24th, 2017
Sponsored by Stonehill College (USA), Eurasia Partnership Foundation (Armenia) and
Eurasia International University (Armenia)
Conference Venue: Eurasia International University
24/2 Azatutyun Ave., Yerevan, Armenia; +37410 (29 90 88), (24 94 38), (29 90 77)
Email: info@eiu.am http://www.eiu.am/eng/
The conference is free and open to public. The deadline for registration to attend the conference is June 12th. For registration, please contact Asya Hayrapetyan at info@eiu.am or call at 29-90-88.
Conference Background
The year 2016 signaled an era of centrifugal world politics. The Brexit unsettled the regional fabric of European Union as the new US administration across the Atlantic is calling for renegotiating terms of engagement regionally as well as globally. The electorates in many Western democracies registered a displeasure against economic globalization, defied global refugee protection policies and called for stringent positions on immigration. Institutional and political support for cosmopolitan values and human rights has been weakening in many parts of the world. Elsewhere, the level of social protest and transnational activism against governments, democracies and dictatorships alike, has been on the rise. Despite persistent turmoil in the Middle East, inter-state wars have nearly disappeared from the world system, and the intra-state violence has experienced a steady decline in the post-Cold war period. Transnationally organized collective responses to problems defying state-centric solutions, from crime, corruption to global warming, remain weak. With the seeming global erosion of liberal values and institutions, more apparent domestic democratic declines world-wide over the last decade has been a parallel trend. Since 2000, democratic break-down is registered in twenty seven countries. Some democratic erosion is registered in twenty two European countries. From France to Philippines, right wing populism is on the rise. Still, parallel to these trends, others point to successful democratic transitions in Gambia, Georgia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Tunisia, among several others.
Centrifugal forces elevate short-term strategic security concerns, but undermine global institutions of governance and weaken human security as a result. Bullets and ballots shape national politics and transform security systems, regional to global. Understanding whether these developments, nationally and globally, are a bump in a road or a massive fracture with what seemed like a democratic destiny a decade ago, is the overarching theme that will be driving the conversations at the conference.
Is liberal world order under threat? How liberal was that order? How much order was there? What are its prospects moving forward? Is the “West” in decline, and is the “Rest” on the rise? How to build global cooperation in an era of centrifugal politics? The conference seeks to explore these questions in terms of their significance for Global Security Studies. Explaining how the experiences from developing countries confirm, conform and challenge traditional understandings of Global Security Studies is one of the overarching goals of the conference.
June 23rd, Friday
9:00-10:00 AM Registration, Student Hall
10:00– 11:00 AM Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address, Conference Hall
10:00AM Anna Ohanyan, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College, USA
10:10AM Richard B. Finnegan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Stonehill College, USA
10:20AM Deborah Grieser, USAID-Armenia Mission Director
10:50AM Gevorg Ger-Gabrielyan, Director, Eurasia Partnership Foundation Armenia
11:00-11:30 AM Coffee and Media Break, Conference Hall
11:30-1:00 PM Plenary Session
Security Practitioner Roundtable , Conference Hall
Poverty, Development and Human Security, Deborah Grieser, USAID-Armenia Mission Director
Gender and Security Studies, Nvard Manasyan, UNISEF, Armenia
Gender and Security Studies, Maro Matosian, Executive Director, Women’s Support Center, Armenia
Criminality, Radicalization and Global Security, Aleksandra Nesic, Senior Social Scientist & Faculty, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS)
US Special Operations Command (USSOC)
Journalism of War and Peace, Tatul Hakobyan, Author and Reporter with Civilneta.am, Armenia
Peacebuilding and Security Studies, speaker tbd, EPF
Moderator: Richard Giragosian, Director, Regional Studies Center, Armenia
1:00-2:30 PM Lunch, Student Hall
1:30-2:00 On Belfast and Brexit: Will the Peace in Northern Ireland hold after British Exit from the EU?
Dr. Richard B. Finnegan, Professor Emeritus, Stonehill College, USA
2:30-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2
Concurrent Session 1: Changing Patterns of Conflict, War and Violence, Tempus Conference Hall
Session Chair: Richard Finnegan, Stonehill College, United States
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: active and frozen, by Gurgen Muradyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
The role of volunteers and mercenaries in conflict: The Nagorno-Karabakh case, by Maria Nebolsina
Center of Euro-Atlantic Security of the International Studies Institute, MGIMO, Russia
A Psycho-Emotional Human Security Analytical Framework: Origin and Epidemiology of Violent Extremism and Radicalization and What States Can Do About It,
by Dr. Aleksandra Nesic
US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS)
US Special Operations Command (USSOC)
Cyber attack in the context of international humanitarian law, by Mariam Antonyan
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, Armenia
Discussant: Prof. Richard Finnegan, Stonehill College
Concurrent Session 2: Identities, Borders and Global Security, Viva Cell MTS Computer Room
Session Chair: Naira Sahakyan, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationalism, Religion, and Contemporary Armed Conflicts, by Gevorg Galtakyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Armenia on the Crossroads of Migration
Gevorg Grigoryan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Searching for a Place: The Case of IDPs of Abkhazia, by Ketevan Epadze
Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Cultural Difference in Conflict Management Strategies: Comparing Adolescents in Lithuania and Poland, by Gražina Čiuladienė
Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Transformation of Gender Issues throughout the USSR, by Lilit Hayrapetyan
Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
Discussant: Artak Ayunts, Eurasia Partnership Foundation Armenia
4:15-5:30 Plenary Session: Professional Development Roundtable
Effective Communication: Change the World, Word by Word, General Conference Hall
Richard Giragosian, Regional Studies Center, Armenia
Richard B. Finnegan, Stonehill College, USA
Maria Titizian, EVN, Armenia
Aleksandra Nesic, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS)
US Special Operations Command (USSOC)
Moderator: Isabella Sargsyan, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Armenia
June 24th, Saturday
9:15 AM-10:00AM – Morning Coffee, Student Hall
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Domestic Violence a threat to the fabric of Armenia’s Society
Maro Matosian, Executive Director, Women’s Resource Center, Armenia
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2
Concurrent Session 1: Security Systems, Old and New, Tempus Conference Hall
Session Chair: Richard Giragosian, Regional Studies Center (RSC), Armenia
Is the Focus on Geopolitics? A Look at Russia’s Post-Cold War Foreign Policy, by Andrew Gillis
Stonehill College, USA
The peculiarities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ involvement in the Syrian Conflict: Its strategy, methods and interests, by Avnik Melikian
Yerevan State University, Armenia and Iran
The legal framework of the Kuril Islands dispute, by Gor Nalbandyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Regional Security System of South Caucasus, by Ani Hovasapyan
Eurasia International University, Armenia
Electoral Fraud and Prevention Mechanisms in Armenia, by Meline Avagyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Discussant: Richard Giragosian, RSC, Armenia
Concurrent Session 2: Human Rights as a Global Security Precondition, Viva Cell MTS Computer Room
Session Chair: Anna Davtyan-Gevorgyan, Yerevan State University
A Recurring Phenomenon: Тhe Prohibition of Torture and the Question of Judicial Corporal Punishment under International Human Rights Law, by Anna Karapetyan
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands
Gender-based violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Varduhi Harutyunyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
The concept of citizenship and development trends, by Merri Shahbazyan
Eurasia International University, Armenia
The legal and institutional framework of human rights in the unrecognized Artsakh Republic, by Armine Sahakyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Discussant: Prof. Aleksandra Nesic, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) US Special Operations Command (USSOC) USA
11:30 AM -11:45 AM – Break
11:45AM-1:00PM Plenary Session: Professional Development Roundtable
Where do ideas come from, and where do they go? General Conference Hall
Prof. Aleksandra Nesic, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) US Special Operations Command (USSOC) USA
Prof. Richard Finnegan, Stonehill College
Richard Giragosian, Regional Studies Center
Prof. Irina Ghaplanyan, American University of Armenia
Isabella Sargsyan, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Armenia
Moderator: Prof. Anna Ohanyan, Stonehill College
1:00-2:30 PM Lunch, Student Hall
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions 3, 4 and 5
Concurrent Session 1: Resource Management, the Environment and Economic Development, Tempus Conference Hall
Session Chair: Richard B. Finnegan, Stonehill College
Transboundary Water Management: Kura-Araks River Basin, by Alvard Sargsyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Human Security and Sustainable Development, by Hovsep Matevosyan
St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Economic Stabilization: The Agricultural Sector and Poverty Reduction in Armenia,
by Daniel Lavigne, Stonehill College, USA
Agricultural Cooperation as the way of economic development and improvement of national security in Armenia, by Levon Arzumanyan and Olga Shakhsuvaryan
Agrarian University, Armenia
Armenian Monopolies in a Global Context: A Comparative Analysis, by Erica Cordatos
Stonehill College
Discussant: Irina Ghaplanyan, American University of Armenia
Concurrent Session 2: International Organizations and Non-State Actors in Global Security, Viva Cell MTS Computer Room
Session Chair: Aleksandra Nesic, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) US Special Operations Command (USSOC)
The Role of International Organizations in the Protection of Human Rights in Internationally Unrecognized Entities, by Yana Avanesyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Accountability at The World Bank, by Kayla McNulty
Stonehill College, United States
The Role of Social Media in Revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, by Anna Sisoyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Corruption, Good Governance, and Integrity, by Marat Atovmyan
Eurasia International University, Armenia
Discussant: Isabella Sargsyan, Eurasia Partnership Foundation
Concurrent Session 3: Politics of Peacebuilding and Security Provision, Library
Session Chair: Anna Ohanyan, Stonehill College
Civil society in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict transformation: Impact assessment and untapped potential, by Shushanna Tevanyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Envisioning Armenian-Turkish Relations as a Complex Dynamic System, by Nichali Michael Ciaccio
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
Edita Dalia Rakauskaitė, Mykolas Romeris University
Women Leadership Talks in the Context of Peace Operations, by Sona Hakobyan and Nune Jomardyan
Eurasia International University, Armenia
Discussant: Anna Ohanyan, Stonehill College
4:00PM – 4:15 PM Break
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM The Last Word … and the Image
Tentative: Onnik James Krikorian – videos, photos and discussion
Moderated by Nichali Michael Ciaccio, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Anna Ohanyan, Stonehill College
