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Salpi Ghazarian

Expert in NGOs in post-soviet society, Citizen journalism and Armenian community of Southern California and the US
  • Program Director
  • USC Institute of Armenian Studies
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 821-2118
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Expertise

  • Republic of Armenia
  • Caucasus
  • Civil Society Development
  • NGOs in post-soviet society
  • Non-profit and civil sector
  • Citizen journalism
  • Turkey
  • Genocide
  • Diaspora development
  • Armenian community of Southern California and the US

Languages

  • Armenian
  • English

Additional Information

  • Worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia (2000-2008)
  • Founding Director, Civilitas Foundation, a non-profit think tank in Yerevan, Armenia
  • Founding Director of the first online television in post-Soviet Armenia, run by young citizen journalists
  • Participated in Armenia-Turkey dialogues, facilitated by the US State Department