Chronology

2003

December 22

Director of the Center Gayane Novikova meets Vladimir Priakhin, Head of the OSCE mission in Armenia

December 18

Ashot Melyan takes part in the seminar “The elections and after: Georgia and Azerbaijan,” organized by Caucasus Media Institute

December 5

SPECTRUM’s seminar “Youth against the war” within the framework of the project “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: in search of the way out,” sponsored by the CoE CBM program

November 29

ADK 119/120, Jg. 2003, Heft 1 & 2, S. 23/24, publishes an article of Dr. Ruben Saftasrtyan “Armenien & Turkei – Zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen / Eine Interpretation”

November 24 – November 26

Ashot Melyan takes part in the seminar “The OSCE Code of Conduct and its implementation in the Armed Forces of Armenia,” organized by the OSCE office in Armenia

November 21 – November 24

Dr. Gayane Novikova delivers report “Security sector management in the South Caucasus: challenges and vision” at the Conference “Security sector management in the South Caucasus,” jointly organized by the Austrian Ministry of Defense, PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes and the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Reichenau, Austria

November 17 – November 21

Director of the Center takes part in the seminar “Armenia and peace-keeping,” organized in Yerevan by the Armenian Ministry of Defense and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

November 16 – November 20

Ashot Melyan and Rouben Safrastian pay an acquaintance visit to the NATO Headquarters in Brussels

October 21 – October 22

G. Novikova, A. Melyan and A. Demuryan take part in the international conference “Armenia on the way to Europe,” organized by the Armenian Center for Humanitarian Studies, Armenian Foreign Ministry and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

October 14 – October 16

SPECTRUM holds in the town of Idjevan a seminar “No war, no peace: the prospects of peaceful coexistence of neighbors” within the framework of the project “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: in search of the way out”

October 10

Ruben Safrastyan organizes a workshop and round table “The Problems of Re-opening the Armenian-Turkish Border,” at the American University of Armenia and presents the paper “The Geopolitics of Armenian-Turkish Border”

October 1 – October 3

Gayane Novikova with Uwe Halbach, Stiftung für Wissenshaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, and Mehrdad Khonsari, Center for Iranian and Arab Studies, London, visit NKR. Meeting with the Archbishop Pargev in Shushi, NKR

September 29 – September 30

SPECTRUM holds International Conference “The South Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability,” sponsored by the NATO HQ PDD

September 15 – September 20

Ruben Safrastyan presents paper “The Turkish Policy in the Southern Caucasus and the Factor of the Republic of Armenia” at the International Congress “Armenian Studies Today and Development Perspectives” in Yerevan

September 11

Gayane Novikova delivers a lecture “The Unresolved Conflicts: The Case of the South Caucasus” at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

August 26

SPECTRUM held the seminar “Refugees as an integral part of the society” within the framework of the project “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: in search of the way out”

July 25

SPECTRUM held the seminar “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the eyes of women” within the framework of the project “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: in search of the way out”

July 18

De-Facto Agency publishes an article of SPECTRUM’s analysts “After the victory – the war”

July 9 – July 12

Gayane Novikova presents a paper “Dual enlargement and its impact on the situation in the South Caucasus” at the International seminar “Security of the South-Eastern Europe after the dual enlargement,” Bucharest

June 25 – June 26

Gayane Novikova takes part in the seminar “Development of relations between the state, local self-government and civil society,” organized in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, by the Council of Europe and Helsinki Committee of Armenia.

June 24

SPECTRUM s seminar “The role of Mass Media in the coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” within the framework of the project “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: in search of the way out”

June 13 – June 18

Gayane Novikova and Ashot Melyan take part in the 6th Annual conference of the Consortium of the Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes in Berlin

June 13

SPECTRUM publishes an anthology “Directions of the Armenian Foreign Policy”

June 5 – June 6

Analyst of the Center, Dr. Ruben Safrastyan attends as an observer at the meeting of Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC), Istanbul, Turkey

June 2 – June 11

Ruben Safrastyan attends at the 15th International Policy Fellows Seminar, CPS-OSI-CEU, Budapest, Hungary

May 29

Dr. Ruben Safrastyan publishes collection of his articles and interviews of 2001-2003 under the title “It is Impossible to set up barriers between neighbors in the XXI Century…”: Armenia and Turkey in regional developments, Yerevan:Zangak-97

May 19 – May 20

Director of the Center takes part in the “Women’s Leadership Development” training, organized by “Trust” Center in Yerevan

May 5 – May 15

Gayane Novikova takes part in the Senior Executive Seminar “Risks and Threats of the 21st Century: Combating terrorism” in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

April 19

Director of the Center takes part in the discussions on “The Concept of the sustainable economic development of Armenia,” organized by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Armenia

April 18 – April 19

Gayane Novikova and Avet Demuryan take part in the International Conference “The religious factor in the political processes of the North and South Caucasus,” organized by the Caucasus Media Institute

April 9

“Respublika Armenia” newspaper publishes Gayane Novikova’s article “Stability in the exchange of oil? The Karabakh settlement in the context of the Iraqi events”

April 3

“Noyev Kovcheg” monthly newspaper, Moscow (N 3) publishes an interview with Ruben Safrastyan: “The Most Important and Actual Goal of Turkey”

March 27 – March 30

Dr. Ruben Safrastyan takes part in the International Scientific Conference “Vectors of Violence: War, Revolution, and Genocide: Turkish-Armenian Workshop,” organized by the University of Minnesota, USA, and presents paper “Armenian Genocide Studies in Armenia: A Paradigm Reconstruction Attempt”

March 27

SPECTRUM is awarded a grant “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in search of the way out” within the framework of the Confidence Building Measures Programme of the Council of Europe

March 24

De-Facto Agency publishes Gayane Novikova’s article “The war in Iraq in the light of the US National Security Strategy”

March 21

Dr. Ruben Safrastyan attended at the specialized policy seminar on “Armenia and Current Regional Realities,” organized by the National Citizens’ Initiative, Yerevan, Armenia, and presents paper “Armenian-Turkish Relations in the Context of the Iraqi War”

March 3 – March 13

Ruben Safrastyan attends at the 14th International Policy Fellows Seminar, CPS-OSI-CEU, Budapest, Hungary

March 3

Ruben Safrastyan gives interviews to “Golos Armenii,” “Respublika Armenia” newspapers and De-Facto Agency

February 11 – February 14

Gayane Novikova takes part in the Marshall Center Alumni Round Table in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

February 10

Ashot Melyan and Avet Demuryan take part in the workshop on the problems of NGOs, organized by the Caucasus Media Institute

January 15

SPECTRUM is awarded a grant of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for equipment

January 10

“Our point of view is interesting for the world”. Gayane Novikova gives an interview to “Respublika Armenia” newspaper