STRENGTENING ARMENIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
The four-day training course held in Yerevan on March 6 concluded as part of the “Strengthening Armenia’s National Security Policy” project. Lectures were delivered by Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Head of the “International Courts and Arbitration” Master’s Program at Yerevan State University and PhD in Law; media expert Artur Papyan; Nina Iskandaryan, Head of the Program Planning and Development Department at the Caucasus Institute; Anna Pakhlyan, Doctor of Economics and expert at the AMBERD Research Center of the Armenian State University of Economics; Alex Finnen, researcher at King’s College London; and Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute. The lectures focused on international best practices in investment policy, global developments in artificial intelligence, regional logistics opportunities, as well as modern trends in hybrid conflicts and interference in electoral processes. The course also covered methods for preparing effective policy briefs and discussed the role of policy analysis in that process. Participants included representatives from the Office of the Security Council of the Republic of Armenia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of High-Tech Industry, the Ministry of Economy, and the National Security Service. The project is funded by the Government of the United Kingdom as part of its international development assistance.