RAFFI HOVANNISIAN WELCOMES DELEGATION OF FLETCHER SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 1 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Raffi K. Hovannisian,
Armenia’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Dean Stephen
Bosworth and Professor Alan Henrikson of the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy at the headquarters of the Armenian Center for National
and International Study (ACNIS) today. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Christine Bosworth, Tufts University trustee Joyce Barsam, and
president Aso Tavitian of the Tavitian Foundation. As Noyan Tapan was
informed by the ACNIS, Raffi Hovannisian greeted his distinguished
guests, warmly recalling his acquaintance with Dean Bosworth and
his study under Professor Henrikson, who taught American Diplomatic
History to Hovannisian a quarter of a century ago. Hovannisian
offered a tour d’horizon of Armenia’s foreign and public policy, its
regional challenges and international prospects. Raffi Hovannisian
graduated from the Fletcher School, located in Medford, Massachusetts,
with a M.A.L.D. degree in 1982, specializing in International Law
and Diplomacy, the Foreign Policies of Communist Countries, and
Civilization and World Affairs. Founded in 1994 by Raffi Hovannisian
and supported by a global network of contributors, the Armenian
Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) serves as a
link between innovative scholarship and the public policy challenges
facing Armenia and the Armenian people in the post-Soviet world. It
also aspires to be a catalyst for creative, strategic thinking and
a wider understanding of the new global environment. In 2006, the
Center focuses primarily on civic education, conflict resolution,
and applied research on critical domestic and foreign policy issues
for the state and the nation.