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In Armenia, Going From Politics to Policy<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Emil Sanamyan<\/strong>\n \n May 21, 2018<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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As Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s face filled the screen, the Bovard audience surged to its feet. Acknowledging the standing ovation with a warm smile, the charismatic journalist-turned-parliamentarian shyly waved his hand.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to congratulate you all, and mention that your support has played a vital role in the success of our struggle,\u201d he said, speaking live from Yerevan via Skype on May 20.<\/p>\n

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Sunday\u2019s landmark event, \u201cArmenia Tomorrow,\u201d featured 15 political leaders, activists and intellectuals testing the way forward. Weeks earlier, the world had watched in wonder as peaceful protests\u2014accompanied by line-dancing, folk-singing and spontaneous hugging\u2014had overthrown Armenia\u2019s autocratic regime without spilling a drop of blood, sparking hope of real democracy in the post-Soviet republic.<\/p>\n

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Riding the wave of Armenia\u2019s Velvet Revolution, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies put together an ambitious program in just two weeks. The timely event drew more than 1,500 live spectators, and 50,000 others watched via\u00a0web stream<\/a>, available in English or Armenian.<\/p>\n

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Institute Director Salpi Ghazarian framed the event around open-ended questions and a solemn promise.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a reason,\u201d she said, \u201cwe are calling this program \u2018Armenia Tomorrow.\u2019 None of us are expecting anyone to have answers and formulas so quickly. But it\u2019s by asking, exploring, studying, weighing, judging and choosing that we go from politics to policy, from the street to institutions. It\u2019s the job of the academy to feed those institutions with facts, with analysis and with options.<\/p>\n

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Read More:\u00a0\u201cVelvet revolution\u201d in Armenia achieves its first \u201cstep\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo today we commit to supporting and asking these questions. Our commitment is that this isn\u2019t a one-off. This is the beginning of a long process: to break down each aspect of life in a democratic society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The program began with a 20-minute dialogue between Ghazarian and the new prime minister.<\/p>\n

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Speaking in Armenian via English translator, Pashinyan described the \u201cpan-Armenian nature of the movement,\u201d noting that the overarching goal must be to make Armenians feel ownership of their country\u2014a transformation that can only happen with free and fair elections. \u201cA sovereign citizen,\u201d he said, \u201csets the just and honorable path for its people and a just government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pashinyan\u2019s words drew repeated applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

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David Usupashvili, former speaker of Georgia\u2019s parliament, followed up with humorous tips on how to avoid the pitfalls of past \u201ccolor revolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Armenians were wise to postpone their revolution, he said archly, because it allows them to observe and learn from their neighbors\u2019 painful errors. Speaking on a panel moderated by USC Dornsife professor and post-Soviet politics expert Robert English, the Georgian lawmaker said, \u201cI\u2019m more than ready to share our mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Usupashvili urged the new government to \u201ctreat every single Armenian as a citizen. We (Georgia) jumped directly from the concept of communist comrade to the voter,\u201d he said, referring to his country\u2019s 2003 Rose Revolution. \u201cWe skipped the very important concept of the citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other pointers, he cautioned Pashinyan to avoid the temptation to demonize political opponents. Rather than portraying itself as \u201csole actor,\u201d the leadership should support rivals and plan its own exit strategy. \u201cPeaceful political transition must be possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Usupashvili called the political transformation now underway pivotal to his own nation\u2019s well-being. \u201cA prosperous, democratic, stable Georgia is impossible without a stable, democratic, prosperous Armenia,\u201d he said, earning enthusiastic applause.<\/p>\n

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On the same panel, Middle East expert Fayez Hammad, a USC lecturer in political science and international relations, offered his list of red flags to watch for based on the failed Arab Spring experience. \u201cI urge everybody, including this audience, to be vigilant,\u201d he said, advocating special attention to changes in military culture, any rise in sectarianism or political schisms, and signs of interference from regional actors with their own agendas.<\/p>\n

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Read More:\u00a0Pashinyan in Karabakh, Offers Outlines of New Policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joining by video from Paris, energy expert Bedros Terzian, president of the Paris-based Petrostrategies, weighed in on landlocked Armenia\u2019s resource challenges. He strongly encouraged the leadership to abandon the country\u2019s decrepit nuclear power infrastructure in favor of abundant wind, solar and hydrocarbons, explaining that as the path to economic and political independence.<\/p>\n

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Speaking from Boston, MIT economist Daron A\u00e7emoglu suggested ways to root out Armenia\u2019s culture of kleptocracy. Cultivate human capital, he advised, instead of finding ways to punish corrupt people. \u201cYou cannot fire 5,000 judges and prosecutors,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to do that slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yerevan-based jurist Edward Mouradian elaborated on the uphill battle Armenia faces. Absent an independent judiciary empowered to enforce the rule of law, civil society cannot thrive, he warned.<\/p>\n

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Mouradian appeared on a panel moderated by USC Price Policy Professor Daniel Mazmanian, along with Washington D.C.-based journalist Emil Sanamyan and political analyst Irina Ghaplanyan.<\/p>\n

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All expressed optimism for the future. \u201cThere\u2019s a new sense of buy-in that people didn\u2019t have before,\u201d said Sanamyan. \u201cNo more excuses that nothing can change, that everything is fixed.\u201d Mere weeks into Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s term as prime minister, Sanamyan said he already looks forward to the new leader\u2019s \u201cexit moment\u2014hopefully not by protest but by elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking via Skype from Yerevan, Ghaplanyan contrasted the new government\u2019s commitment to transparency with the old regime\u2019s dissemination of Soviet-style propaganda\u2014a cynical tactic that created \u201ca huge gap between the people and the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As proof of Armenians\u2019 new connection with their government, she pointed to the historic May 1 parliamentary Q&A that held all Armenians glued to their screens for 10 straight hours. \u201cThat\u2019s more than the average American\u2019s viewing-time on CPSAN in his or her entire life,\u201d Ghaplanyan said, grinning.<\/p>\n

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Newly elected Armenian president Armen Sarkissian closed out Sunday\u2019s event. Joining via a pre-recorded video from Yerevan, responding to questions posed to him from the Institute, the career Armenian diplomat directly addressed youth in the diaspora.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou are sons and daughters of Armenia,\u201d Sarkissian said, \u201cno matter where you live. It doesn\u2019t matter if you carry American, Argentinian, French or Armenian passport. You have to believe you are a part of this great nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That message resonated with Arpi Barsegian, 24, and Zara Hovasapyan, 25.\u00a0<\/strong>They chatted at a reception following the program, sipping coffee and nibbling on Armenian\u00a0gata<\/em>\u00a0pastries. The young women had come to size-up the prime minister and president.<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>Hearing their vision, hearing them be excited for the future role of the diaspora in Armenia, that topped everything,\u201d said Barsegian, a business consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen that outreach in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Swept up in last month\u2019s euphoria, she had traveled to Armenia with her brother to participate in the peaceful protests.<\/p>\n

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Also Watch:\u00a0Human Rights Fest in Armenia \u2013 A First<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThose five days were among the happiest days of my life,\u201d said the Armenia-born Barsegian, who emigrated 10 years ago with her family. \u201cIt was so incredible to see people dancing, hugging each other, awakened and hopeful. For a very long time, that was missing. We thought that we really didn\u2019t have the power to bring change or to\u00a0be<\/em>\u00a0the change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Her friend Zara Hovasapyan had also left Armenia as a child. A USC graduate who works as a financial analyst for Lionsgate, Hovasapyan, MBA \u201916, was moved by President Sarkissian\u2019s call to the sons and daughters of Armenia to re-engage with their homeland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI have been talking about repatriating for a really long time,\u201d she said. \u201cThe change of government allays the fears we had. It\u2019s a new beginning!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aram Telian, 51, sees a new beginning for the descendants of genocide survivors, too.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten older,\u201d said the third-generation Armenian-American from Van Nuys, \u201cI\u2019ve felt the desire to search for people and ideas that, being born here, I never had a connection to. Now there\u2019s a call to visit the homeland, to engage and make friends with people in Armenia. 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