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Conflict: Problem and opportunity


What is a conflict, how is a situation diagnosed as conflict? How conflict-resisitant is the current Armenian society? Conflictologists Artak Ayunts and Irina Ghaplanyan talk on the topic “Conflict: problem and opportunity”.

The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Conflict and Education


What is the conflict of contemporary education system? How does our education system treat conflicts? Ethnographer Satenik Mkrtchyan and education expert Serob Khachatryan talk about the conflicts of life and education and its possible solutions.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Conflict and Media


Media is in the center of conflict, media is to cover conflict, sometimes media is the one to instigate conflict, and at times media is the one to solve that very conflict.
General Director of the Center for Media Initiatives NuneSargsyanand Executive Director of Eurasia Partnership Foundation GevorgTer-Gabrielyan talk about the topic “Conflict and Media”.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Conflict and Art


Conflict is the biggers motivator– the stimulator of art. How does art treat social conflicts, what is conflicting in the very art itselt?
The topic is discussed by the Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, art critic Nazareth Karoyan and painter Stepan Veranyan. The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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First Republic: Attempt to Rethink History


In what conditions was the first Republic of Armenia proclaimed? What external and internal factors supported the destruction of state? Did Bolshevik Red Army truly save Armenia? Ara Papian, Head of Analytical Center “Modus Vivendi”, and Harutyun Marutyan, PhD in History, analyse the Soviet and current historiographical contradictions.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Civilizations and empires: part 6


What national-public characteristics create civilizations? What civilizations are able to establish empires? How should the goods of civilization be used and not to get overthrown by the great-power interests? Within the scope of “Civilizations and empires” topic, NikolMargaryan, ethnographer and culture expert converse with Armen Petrosyan, PhD in Philology.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Family: issues and modifications


May 15 is the International Family Day proclaimed by the United Nations Organization. Its objective is to draw the attention of the international public on family issues. What issues of the family as an institute and as an activity of habitat can we identify? The topic is discusses by ethnologist RuzannaTsaturyan and psychologist Khachatur Gasparyan.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Literature of Freedom-Fight


How was the Artsakh freedom-fight and the victory interpreted in our literary texts? Who is our post-independence hero in literature – the freedom-fighter who bears the spirit of victory or the person suffering in the hard state of the war and injustice? The topic is discussed by essayist HovhannerYeranyan and literary critic Arkmenik Nikoghosyan.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Meaning fullness of labor in national-public culture


Even societies with appropriate labor legislation experience lack of the concepts of creative happiness of individuals conditioned by labor and honest earning.
How meaningful is labor in our national-public culture and what does the Christian ethics add to it? The topic is discusses byBishop Bagra tGalstanyan andSerob Khachatryan, PhD in Philosophy.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Armenian Genocide: recognition and andretribution


Mass extermination of the Armenian nation living in the historical Armenia located in the territory of Ottoman Turkey, wa the first genocide of the 20th century. Regardless of the fact, that there is no lack of documentaries and evidence of the great genocide in 1915, no matter how evident is the impact of Armenian Genocide on the political and moral image of the world, nonetheless, Armenian nation still keeps fighting for the recognition and retribution of the Genocide. The topic is discussed by Ashot Melkonyan, the Director of NAS Institute of History, and Arsen Avagyan, PhD in History. The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.
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Confession and Reconciliation


Confession and reconciliation are the key elements of the Christian faith. They are significantly absorbed into the Christian culture. Over time, the phenomena of confession and reconciliation started assuming a regulatory role in interpersonal relations too, thus turning into a norm in the social relationships. Why does the individual spiritual life assume the act of confession and how does it work as a regulation mechanism for the public life? The topic is discussed by Arshavir Gaboujian, program director of the Bible Society Armenia, and Pargev Ohanyan, lawyer and former judge. The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.

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Civilizations and empires: part 5


Involvement in the civilization system or just being civilized is perceived as something positive and prone to development. It lasts up till the moment when the political subject of civilization – the empire, steps forward, the key guarantee of it being supercentralization of power and standardization of life. Within the framework of the topic “Civilizations, empires”, political analyst AghasiYenokyan and orientalist Mikayel Hovhannisyan held a conversation.
The conversation is hosted by Anna Sargsyan.