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International Center for Human Development (ICHD) was established in 2000 as an independent research and public policy institution - think tank, which pays close attention to research, as it attempts to develop a unique vision for addressing the main issues regarding economic development and social safety. ICHD’s major goal is to actively involve the public in current geo-political, socio-economic, and cultural developments. In doing so, ICHD hopes to facilitate the development of social processes, as well as work out and further elaborate alternative approaches and solutions.

ICHD has a rich experience in regional co-operation projects and has implemented dozens of projects aimed at regional co-operation and promotion of synergetic solutions to existing socio-economic and political problems. ICHD has a record of working on many Armenia-Turkish Track 2 diplomacy projects in the past as well as conducted Armenia-Turkish development scenarios discussions with ordinary citizens recently via specific town hall meeting (THM) designed technique.

What matters to ICHD:

When World War I broke out, it was a complex period in the Eastern Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans and Czarist Russia fought a series of bloody battles in historical Armenia. Only in the last few years with the collapse of the USSR have the two sides been able to examine the conflict closely. Unfortunately, the current conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh has added another point of conflict. As a Turkic people, Turkey supported Azerbaijan against Armenian aspirations to regain what Armenians claimed to be historic parts of Armenia. The two countries went to war over that area in the early 1990s and, in 1993, after one Armenian operation which captured a large Azerbaijani province, the Turks closed the border.

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Tevan Poghosyan

July 20,2011 — admin
Yerevan, Armenia

When we look at what happened in the Eastern Ottoman Empire and historic Western Armenia in the early 20th century, it represented one of the first great tragedies of the 20th century. There were more than two million Armenians living in what is now the Eastern part of Turkey, Eastern Anatolia. Within a few years there were none left—they had died, been deported, or assimilated. Many of them went to other parts of the Ottoman Empire, namely Syria and Lebanon, and many of them went West, which is why we have such a large Armenian diaspora in the United States, particularly in California and Massachusetts. Many of them went to Eastern Armenia which then became part of the Soviet Union. That border was then closed during the Cold War when Turkey was the only member of NATO sharing a land border with the USSR.

Mr. Tevan Poghosyan is the Executive Director of the International Center for Human Development (ICHD) since its establishment in 2000, and since 2001 and states that ICHD is determined to keep on influencing the current state policy and perspectives of policy makers, thus eventually developing an adequate public opinion, and striving to accomplish this goal by providing relevant analyses and alternative recommendations developed in the result of open discussions on current political, economic, social developments and other pressing issues across the spectrum. 

Today ICHD regards the future with greater confidence, believing that ICHD will serve as a solid foundation for the realization of even the most daring ideas and projects. ICHD hopes that such a beginning is a sure guarantee for sustainable development, and that the International Center for Human Development will be able to meet the expectations of its supporters and partners.

Mr. Tevan Poghosyan is the has also been serving as the Executive Director of the Armenian Atlantic Association. From 2002, he began lecturing on Conflict Management and Leadership at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. Mr. Poghosyan has served as the NKR Public Affairs Office Director in the USA, worked with the Central Bank of Armenia, and graduated from the American University of Armenia's Political Science Department in 1996, having also attained a degree in Computer Science at the Yerevan State Engineering University in 1994.  

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