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First aid certificates awarded to volunteers: “The more we invest in young people, the stronger our state will be”, G. Chobanyan, municipality of Berd

On August 18, 2024, Armenia Peace Initiative (API), in partnership with the State Crisis Management Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Armenia, held an awards ceremony for volunteers who had completed the ‘First Aid Elements’ course in the border community of Tavush. Colonel Armine Hayrapetyan, Acting Rector of the Academy, […]

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Cybersecurity: Ralph Yirikian visits the 4th edition of API’s training session

Armenia Peace Initiative (API) has launched the 4ᵉ edition of its cybersecurity training course, in collaboration with the French University of Armenia (UFAR) and EIF – Enterprise Incubator Foundation. This intensive programme, led by two renowned French experts, Sébastien Barguirdjian, cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Rennes-Saint Malo, and Nicolas Renard, Cloud Architect at Orange,

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Cybersecurity capacity building: API successfully concludes the 4th edition of its intensive training course

Armenia Peace Initiative (API), in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR) and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), has successfully completed the fourth edition of its intensive cybersecurity training, held from 24 February to 21 March 2025. This new session confirms API’s commitment to helping Armenian companies and banks build their skills in the

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Bahruz Samadov: another dissident voice silenced by the Aliyev regime

They may have left Azerbaijan, worked in exile or studied for their doctorates in European universities, but the increasingly repressive police regime in Baku is still hunting them down. In Azerbaijan, the post-2020 period is characterised by an ongoing crackdown on dissident voices: activists, academics, not to mention political opponents. Some issues are more sensitive

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API trains Tavush border villages in First Aid: “Ladies, in your handbag, next to your lipstick, you must have a tourniquet”

As part of its civil security programme, API (Armenia Peace Initiative) is stepping up its efforts to build capacity to respond to natural and man-made disasters, targeting people in border towns and villages. To date, API has trained 195 people, including 118 women. Our first aid training courses are aimed primarily at the civilian population

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API trains in cybersecurity : successful spring session at the UFAR  

API Armenia Peace Initiative, in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR), recently completed a successful spring session of cybersecurity training. For this second edition, intensive training took place from 8 April to 3 May, designed and delivered by a duo of French experts. Sébastien Barguirdjian, a lecturer at the IUT and Faculté des

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API news: first aid training

As part of its civil protection programme, API organises first aid training courses. These courses are aimed primarily at people living in border and/or isolated regions, who are both the most likely to be affected in the event of a natural or man-made disaster and the best positioned to react. First aid consists of mastering

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Cybersecurity: a successful experiment

API Armenia Peace Initiative, in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR) and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), has just completed a professional training programme in cybersecurity. The course, designed and delivered by a French expert, Sébastien Barguirdjian, a cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Rennes and an entrepreneur in the IT sector, brought

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