 biographies of presenters ani kalayjian ani kalayjian is a psychology professor american board certified expert in traumatic stress psychotherapist genocide scholar conflict resolution expert researcher and international consultant she has over twenty years of experience in disaster management masstrauma interventions conflict resolution as well as two decades of university teaching experience and psychotherapy practice in both ny nj dr kalayjian conducts workshops around the world healing the wounds of generationally transmitted trauma of wars genocides and holocaust she has presented her research papers conducted workshops and chaired panel discussion nationally and internationally she has published widely in scholarly journals as well as authored and edited several books the most recent being the two volume emotional healing around the world rituals and practices for resilience and meaningmaking  praeger publishing november 2009  j antranig kasbarian john antranig kasbarian holds a phd in geography from rutgers university where he studied under neil smith his doctoral dissertation dealt with the geography of nationalism during the 19881994 war in nagornokarabagh based largely on his own experiences on the ground it is entitled we are our mountains the geography of nationalism in the armenian selfdetermination movement nagornokarabakh 198898 he has published widely on nagornokarabagh in both academic journals and the press professionally he serves as executive director for the new yorkbased tufenkian foundation supervising a variety of programs in armenia and nagornokarabagh he is also active within the armenianamerican community currently serving as chairman of the armenian revolutionary federation eastern usa asbed kotchikian asbed kotchikian is a lecturer at the global studies department at bentley university he has written lectured organized conferences and delivered presentations on topics such as foreign policies of small and weak states national identity and regional developments in the middle east and eurasia within academic and public venues in the south caucasus middle east us and europe he has published articles and book chapters in various media among which demokratizatsya insight turkey and central asia and the caucasus  his book titled the dialectics of small states foreign policy making in armenia and georgia was published in 2008 by vmd verlag he is currently the editor of the academic peer reviewed journal armenian review  dr kotchikian holds a phd in political science from boston university and is a senior fellow at the policy forum armenia  