Diasporan Perspectives – The Gulbenkian Initiative on Armenian Issues (Սփիւռքեան հեռանկարներ) will commission, publish and disseminate new research in the social sciences focusing on the Armenian Diaspora and Armenia, while acting as a convening space for leaders, policy makers and experts.

The think tank aims to contextualise the Armenian experience in a wider international setting. Based in the Diaspora, the initiative brings diasporan perspectives on national issues amplifying the outside-in approach as well as giving the Armenian Diaspora possibility to reclaim its own independent thinking on national issues. Its mission is “to foster cutting-edge social science research, analysis and strategic thinking that is transformative, open to the world and Armenian focussed.”

A special roundtable discussion will mark the official launch of Diasporan Perspectives. It will be opened by the President of the Foundation, Professor António Feijó. It will address key questions such as, why it was created, what goals it hopes to achieve, how it will engage with stakeholders and how it will promote strategic thinking?

The discussion will be in English, without simultaneous translation, and will be livestreamed on this page.