Rafayel Seyranyan

Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Institute for Philosophy and Law

44 Aram str.,
Yerevan, Armenia 375001

Telephone: (374-22)2-02-15
rseyranyan@yahoo.com

During the 2000-2001 academic year, Rafayel Seyranyan was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. His stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S.Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. His mentor at GW was Professor Jerrold Post.Rafayel Z. Seyranyan is a senior researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Law of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan and an associate professor of the Yerevan Branch of the Moscow New Institute for Law. He teaches courses in logic, rhetoric, and philosophy of law. His research interests are social philosophy, conflictology, and sociology. 

Rafayel Z. Seyranyan received a B.S.in engineering from the Azerbaijan Institute for Oil and Chemistry (Baku); and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1993 in Yerevan, Armenia, he attended a summer course of Cambridge College and received a certificate in Conflictology. 

His publications include: 

“The Concept of the Interaction Between Society and Nature.” Moscow: Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences,1986 (In Russian).

“Civil Society in Armenia: Retrospective and Perspectives,” Man at the Cross-Roads. Yerevan: Avangard, 1999. 

“Common Migration Space: Main Approaches of Study,” Common Migration Space. Yerevan: Armenian Sociological Association,1996 (In Russian). 

“National Ideal: Utopia and Reality,” Yerevan: Synopsis, #5, 1995.

“Philosophical Aspects of National Development,” Yerevan: Synopsis, #4, 1994 (In Russian). 

“The Concept of Refugee Adaptation in Armenia,” Yerevan: Synopsis, #3, 1994.

“Utopia and Reality,” Yerevan: Synopsis, #2, 1993.