ICHD's Executive Director Mr. Tevan Poghosyan and Senior Associate Dr. Ashot Khurshudyan,  participated in Bridging the Divide's (BTD) First Regional Conference for the Middle East and Caucasus on May 17 and 18, 2010 in Zahle, Lebanon.

Twenty five representatives of the government, civil society institutions and think tanks, private businesses and development partners had an Off-the-Record discussion on the "Realities of Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish Business Relationship: Potential, Desire and Conflicts in the Region" at ICHD on 12 May, 2010.

The first meeting of the Interagency Commission on Combating Gender Based Violence in Armenia was held in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on 12 May, 2010.  

Twenty four representatives of the government, civil society institutions and think tanks, private businesses and development partners had an Off-the-Record discussion on the "Challenges and Possibilities of Multilingual Secondary Education" at ICHD on 11 May, 2010.

ICHD Executive Director Mr. Tevan Poghosyan participated in the conference: "After Kosovo Declaration of Independence and the August 2008 War: The New Geopolitics and Role of Diplomacy in the Caucasus", held at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, on May 8 and 9, 2010.

Off-the-record discussion on "Realities of Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish Business Relationship: Potential, Desire and Conflicts in the Region" will take place in ICHD at 16:00 p.m. on 12 May 2010.

Օff-the-record discussion on "Multi-lingual secondary education: opportunity or challenge?" will take place in ICHD at 8:00p.m. on 11 May 2010.

ICHD staff met with the Eun Joo Allison Yi and Ann Iren Glimsdal of Norsk Energi (Norway) on 4 May, 2010. They have discussed opportunities of future cooperation.

ICHD Executive Director met with Ms. Jatinder K. Cheema, USAID/Armenia Mission Director on 30 April 2010. They have discussed emerging challenges and opportunities for Armenian society in dynamic global environment including issues of regional cooperation, civil society development,  good governance and domestic violence. ICHD's Tevan Poghosyan briefed the current initiatives of the think tank to the head of the leading development partner in Armenia.

ICHD core staff met with Regional Conflict Advisor for South Caucasus, British Embassy, Georgia Ms. Kate White on April 29, 2010. They have discussed the course of the project "The Resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh Issue: What Do Societies Have to Say?" implemented by the ICHD and its Azerbaijani partner Youth for the Development  NGO. The project is sponsored by the UK's Global Conflict Prevention Pool.