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  • U.C. Berkeley Armenian Studies Program Event

    Armenian Studies Program
    Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    260 Stephens Hall
    U.C. Berkeley
    Tel: 510-642-3230


    Berkeley Law's Election Administration Research Center (EARC) and The
    Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law;
    the Armenian Studies Program and the Institute of Slavic, East European,
    and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley;
    and the Human Rights Initiative, UC Davis


    PRESENT:
    Elections, Democracy Building, and Civil Society in a
    Peri-Conflict Region: The 2012 Presidential Election in
    Nagorno Karabakh Republic


    Tuesday November 20, 2012
    4:00 pm -- 6:00 pm
    132 South Addition, Boalt Hall
    Free and open to the public


    Please join us for the election observer's reports, followed by a panel
    discussion of the salient issues in elections and governance of Nagorno
    Karabakh.

    Panel 1:
    KARIN MAC DONALD
    Director of the Election Administration Research Center, Berkeley Law
    KEITH DAVID WATENPAUGH
    Associate Professor and Director, Human Rights Initiative
    University of California, Davis
    HEGHNAR WATENPAUGH
    Associate Professor, University of California, Davis


    Panel 2:
    HONORABLE GRIGOR HOVHANNISSIAN
    Consul General of the Republic of Armenia in Los Angeles
    H.E. ROBERT AVETISYAN
    Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
    to the United States
    MR. ASHOT GHULYAN
    Chairman of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic National Assembly
    Discussant:
    STEPHAN ASTOURIAN
    Assistant Adjunct Professor of History and Executive Director of the
    Armenian Studies Program, Institute of Slavic, East European, and
    Eurasian Studies

    On July 19, 2012, the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh held its fifth
    presidential election since declaring independence in 1991. Two
    candidates, Vitaly Balasanyan and Arkady Soghomonyan, challenged the
    incumbent President Bako Sahakyan. President Sahakyan won re-election. A
    team of Elections and Human Rights experts from UC Berkeley and UC Davis
    were part of a California group that travelled to Nagorno Karabakh to
    observe the election.

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