Ararat Center for Strategic Research

On February 8, 2006, just two days before the meeting between Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliev in Rambouillet (France), the center held a presentation of the book titled The Liberated Territory of Armenia and the Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict' (Pro Patria series, vol. 1) at the Armenia-Marriott hotel in Yerevan.[http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/16290/ "Liberated Territory of Armenia and the Settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict" Book Published], Panarmenian.net, 08.02.2006 The purpose of this book was to demonstrate the strategic importance of territories surrounding ex-NKAO administrative borders now controlled by the Armenian Army. The book also promoted the idea that these territories should not be exchanged for any hypothetical recognition and that they should be regarded as compensation for other Armenian territorial losses.

Those present included celebrated actor Sos Sargsyan, writer Zori Balayan, the Artsakh liberation war veteran officers (including two generals), MPs and other political figures.

The center specializes in research on Armenia's geopolitics and military history and identity as well as other topics. Its website offers a variety of information, in-depth research and analysis on data from the Armenian-Turkish conflict, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Javakheti, information warfare, national identity and other related fields.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}

Pro-Patria is one of the most well known works published by the center. Released in 2006 and 2007, Pro-Patria is a two-volume publication containing a series of selected studies including facts and analysis on strategy and security. It was compiled and edited by the head of the center, Dr. Armen Ayvazyan.

• The Liberated Territory of Armenia and the Settlement of The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict (Pro-Patria, Volume I, 2006) [http://ararat-center.org/index.php?p=9&l=eng The Liberated Territory of Armenia and the Settlement of The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict], ARARAT Center for Strategic Research, Yerevan, Lusakn, 2006, 372 pp.
• ''Studies on Strategy and Security' (Pro-Patria, Volume II, 2007)

Other publications include:

• Javakhk: The Problems and Perspectives, 2008
• An English-Armenian Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Military Terms, 2009
• Turkification of the Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, Lusine Sahakyan, Montreal – Arod Books, 2010 [http://www.ararat-center.org/upload/files/Toponym_Lusine.pdf "Turkification of the Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey"], Lusine Sahakyan, ARARAT Center for Strategic Research, Center of Ottoman Studies, Yerevan State University, Montreal – Arod Books, 2010

In 2009 the Ararat Center for Strategic Research filed a suit against the Caucasus Institute based on accusations of an Armenian genocide denial in one of their publications called Caucasus neighbourhood: Turkey and South Caucasus․[http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/society/news/36564/ Armenian court was to hear Genocide denial case in October ], Panarmenian.net, 23.09.2009 Amongst other articles was one by Turkish author Aybars Görgülü called "Turkey-Armenia relations: an eternal deadlock?" in which the author used the term genocide in quotation marks 34 times․[http://www.armenianow.com/news/10538/scientific_article_or_scientific_de Scientific article or scientific denial of Genocide?: Political analysts argue over the content of the book], Armenianow.com, 29.09.2009 This was the first accusation of denial of genocide in Armenia․[http://www.ardarutyun.org/?p=186&lang=en English Translation of the Full Text of the First Lawsuit Against the Denial of Genocide in Armenia], Ardarutyun.org

Most of the center's publications are available via its online library.[http://www.ararat-center.org/index.php?p=42&l=eng Online library] Additionally, the center launched several independent projects which were later discontinued., such as the Foreign Press Review[http://artmamul.ararat-center.org Foreign Press Review ] and the Summer and Evening Schools{{Cite web |url=http://dproc.net/ |title=Summer and Evening Schools |access-date=2019-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116021943/http://www.dproc.net/ |archive-date=2009-01-16 |url-status=dead }}

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