Philip Gamaghelyan is a conflict resolution scholar-practitioner, lecturer at Georgetown University, co-founder and director of programs of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, and managing editor of the Caucasus Edition (www.caucasusedition.net). He works in the post- Soviet states, as well as Turkey, Syria, and other conflict regions. His research is focused on the politics of memory in conflict contexts and on the critical evaluation and design of conflict resolution interventions. He holds a Ph.D. from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, masters degree in inter-communal coexistence from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and BA/MA in political science and French from the Yerevan State Linguistic University.