Bella Karapetyan, Armenia Bella Karapetyan is an associate executive director at the Armenian Monuments Awareness Project (AMAP) Human Development NGO, where she works on EU-funded cultural projects between Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Moldova. She oversees the preservation of a medieval fortress, funded by the US Ambassadors Cultural fund and installations of multilingual signs at major historic-cultural and natural heritage sites in Armenia, as well as the creation of a web portal about these sites. Ms. Karapetyan has worked in several forward-thinking rehabilitation projects, for example in the establishment of “The International City of Peace”. Prior she coordinated humanitarian assistance and community development projects for the United Nations World Food Program in their Armenia office. Ms. Karapetyan co-authored publications about Armenian architecture and holds a degree in philology, pedagogy and translation from Yerevan State University.