Good morning: Karen Hakobian at TEDxYerevan

Karen Hakobian, Singer, Consultant, Artist, Civic Activist at TEDxYerevan 2012 Karen Hakobian is a musician and a researcher, as well as a human rights advocate/trainer based in New York. He is currently the President of Huys (Hope), a human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) in Armenia. Hakobian has years of experience in both the government and NGO sectors in Armenia, including with United Nations Development Programme and United States Agency for International Development. He is the author of "Advocacy for Public Policy Making", a manual for trainers published for Armenian NGOs. Hakobian was previously invited to New York by the International Center of Tolerance and Education to implement a project on the protection of human rights of soldiers in the Armenian army. Hakobian is currently lectures worldwide on contemporary issues in politics and arts. He was a PhD candidate at Yerevan State University, where he was working on his thesis on Aspects of Ethnic Mentality in Public Administration. He is a graduate of the Yerevan State University, the St. Petersburg Academy of Civil Service, and the University of Twente in the Netherlands. With his publication on "How to colonize a nation in 19 steps" he was invited to "Atlantis 11″ project at Venice Biennale, and most recently he was a part of "and and and" project of Documenta 13, speaking on "How to embrace the morning and go into the night". In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)