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Haigazian University
Mira Yardemian, Public Relations Director
P.O.Box: 11-1748
Riad El Solh 1107 2090
Beirut, Lebanon
Tel: 01-349230/1
01-353010/1/2
Haigazian University Students meet with Professor Gerard Chaliand
Renowned political scientist, Dr. Gerard Chaliand of France met with
Haigazian University students on campus and had a discussion concerning
current political affairs.
Dr. Chaliand author of some 40 books has written extensively on terrorism,
guerilla warfare, and liberation wars, the Kurds, Third World wars, the
Armenians, the Karabagh conflict. He is the founder of the Minority Rights
Group (France) and was its Director between 1978 and 1987. Between 1997 and
2000 he was the Director of the European Center for the Studies of
Conflicts, Paris. He has been a visiting professor in several universities
including the University of Montreal, University of Sussex, Harvard
University, UCLA and Berkeley.
After touring the Haigazian University campus and meeting the President of
the University Rev.-Dr. Paul Haidostian, Professor Chaliand had an informal
meeting with a group of Haigazian students.
In some 25 minutes, Dr. Chaliand narrated the political developments that
took place after September 9, 2001 particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq. He
stressed the Iraqi case due to its regional impact. The students listened in
absolute silence. Eventually they asked questions about whether there would
be an independent Kurdistan, the Iran-USA tension, whether a Palestinian
state would be proclaimed and how he sees the world order in light of
current economic and demographic developments in India and China. Dr.
Chaliand differentiated between the diverse modes of fighting and war, like
guerilla warfare, defensive war, resistance movements, terrorist acts, etc.
He also touched on the latest round of fighting between Hizbullah and
Israel.
Mira Yardemian, Public Relations Director
P.O.Box: 11-1748
Riad El Solh 1107 2090
Beirut, Lebanon
Tel: 01-349230/1
01-353010/1/2
Haigazian University Students meet with Professor Gerard Chaliand
Renowned political scientist, Dr. Gerard Chaliand of France met with
Haigazian University students on campus and had a discussion concerning
current political affairs.
Dr. Chaliand author of some 40 books has written extensively on terrorism,
guerilla warfare, and liberation wars, the Kurds, Third World wars, the
Armenians, the Karabagh conflict. He is the founder of the Minority Rights
Group (France) and was its Director between 1978 and 1987. Between 1997 and
2000 he was the Director of the European Center for the Studies of
Conflicts, Paris. He has been a visiting professor in several universities
including the University of Montreal, University of Sussex, Harvard
University, UCLA and Berkeley.
After touring the Haigazian University campus and meeting the President of
the University Rev.-Dr. Paul Haidostian, Professor Chaliand had an informal
meeting with a group of Haigazian students.
In some 25 minutes, Dr. Chaliand narrated the political developments that
took place after September 9, 2001 particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq. He
stressed the Iraqi case due to its regional impact. The students listened in
absolute silence. Eventually they asked questions about whether there would
be an independent Kurdistan, the Iran-USA tension, whether a Palestinian
state would be proclaimed and how he sees the world order in light of
current economic and demographic developments in India and China. Dr.
Chaliand differentiated between the diverse modes of fighting and war, like
guerilla warfare, defensive war, resistance movements, terrorist acts, etc.
He also touched on the latest round of fighting between Hizbullah and
Israel.