The YSU Center for Gender and Leadership Studies is organizing the presentation of the research on "STRENGTHENING WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA: EXISTING EFFORTS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES " conducted by Anna Melikyan and Irina Ghaplanyan in the context of the Small Grants Program 2014.
Irina Ghaplanyan
In 2004 Irina Ghaplanyan graduated from the university of Malta. She commenced her course in Diplomatic Studies the winter semester of 2005 at the Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminster. In 2009 Irina commenced the PhD program at the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis focuses on how the political leadership of post-Soviet Armenia influenced Armenian identity construction and how it was articulated in foreign policy.