Armenia-Diaspora Relations: Future Endangered?
Call for Proposals
Armenia-Diaspora Relations: Future Endangered?
Call for Proposals
To provide an opportunity for young professionals to discuss Armenia–Diaspora relations, perspectives on and approaches to the present-day challenges facing the Armenian nation, Policy Forum Armenia announces a Youth Forum to take place on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. The full-day Forum will include 3 panels each comprising 4 panelists. An additional panel of academic and policy experts will also present at the Forum. The event will feature a keynote speech on the overall topic of Armenia-Diaspora relations.
- Benefits and drawbacks of the protocols
- Concerns of legitimacy and the signing of the protocols
- Licking the wounds and looking ahead: An optimist’s agenda
- People of Armenia vs. its governments: Who should Diaspora pledge its allegiances to?
- Globalization and transnationalism: Are Diaspora-Armenia relations stuck in the past?
- Legal, developmental, and moral reasons for Diaspora’s engagement in Armenia
- Traditional Diaspora leadership: Out of touch, out of vision, or out of integrity?
How to Apply
Interested undergraduate and graduate students residing in the United States and Canada should submit a 1-page proposal on their topic as well as a cover letter containing the following information:
- Applicant’s full name
- Personal contact information including mailing address
- Institutional affiliation (college or university) and status (years completed)
- Major area of study
- Names and contact information for two referees (at least one academic)
The application deadline is December 14, 2009. Applications should be forwarded electronically to [email protected] with a subject “PFA Youth Forum.” Participants will be informed about the Committee’s decision by December 20. Successful applicants must submit their full position papers (5,000 word limit) by January 17, 2010.
Policy Forum Armenia is an independent professional non-profit association aimed at strengthening discourse on Armenia's economic development and national security and through that helping to shape public policy in Armenia.
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An excellent initiative
Policy Forum Armenia should be commended for this excellent initiative. An organization, a party, ultimately a people that does not listen to its youth fails. In any community it's the young and energetic individuals who challenge the status quo, provide new ideas and eventually lead in future.
Let the young people speak!
Armenians must bring Turks to
Armenians must bring Turks to justice in national and international forums. Furthermore, Armenians must start building modern weapons within Armenia, if they wish to protect their identity. Everything else does not matter.
Այո՛, միայն զէնքով կայ Հայոց
Այո՛, միայն զէնքով կայ Հայոց փրկութիւն…
Wilson – Laudo Arbitral
Auxilliary Bodies of the Young
In my web site-now in re-construction- below the heading "Armenia -Diaspora enhancement road" 2nd line reads: Auxiliary Bodies of the Young.
Indeed the Young are of utmost importance, our future depends on them.
But WE have to build a concrete base for them from which to launch the new organized effort towards attaining our objectives.
After so many futile tries, gatherings, symposia, conventions nothing substantial, if any, has emerged. Why so?
Pretty simple to answer; the Armenian mindset is not as yet quite ready. So how do we go about getting the ground prepared and commence.
A. Formacion Social ("Civil Societies") which is being trumpeted within Armenian circles, political savvies. Can this be obtained? I would dare say – like I have always maintained – talking only for us Armenians – quite suitable to go through a New Concept. That of first forming "Professional Colleagues’ Associations."
What will we obtain through these? Professionals certainly mingle easier within their circles, learn from each other, aid each other. Unheard in Armenians? Not really. It’s exaggeratesd by Turkish agents, who speak perfect Armenian.
We can thus forge ahead. Civil Societies are not formed, as some would have us believe on the street. These good people have studied, got educated and are on their way to progress, are CANDIDATES.
Therefore let us begin from the bottom, not just jump ahead. We need to re-organize our Diaspora structures.
Next,
B. Once professional associations are all formed, with boards etc., as novelty by this servant of the Armenian people, I "suggest"/never advise or offer ..That from each group-in all Armenian-dense townships- a 3 person ELITE-delegates be elected on the basis of MERITS that one can develop, such as having most advanced in a given profession, having networking capacity, etc.
These 3 person delegates then form the Inter-professional groups. Real participation and represesntation from all walks of life.Then proceed to invite all of our traditional parties to send in their 3 person delegates and one each from Spiritual denominations. What have we got? A CENTRAL BODY for each Armenian township.
What happened to the now standard -all over the world- Electoral System, A corrupt unjust and very anti Democrtic system. And they call these VOTING AND ELECTIONS, also from political parties. I do not discard their role. They will always carry on as they have developed over more than a century. But I inisit that alongside these we bring in NEW breath, new advanced, progressive elements.
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