PROJECTS

In June 2020, Peace Dialogue NGO (PD) launched a project entitled Development of Civil Society Potential for the EffectiveMonitoring of Activities of the RA Ministry of Defense in the scope of the Action Plan deriving from the National Strategy on Human Rights Protection.

Peace Dialogue will continue to monitor the activities of the RA Ministry of Defense within the framework of the Action Plan deriving from the National Strategy on the Protection of Human Rights.

Starting 1 February 2020, Peace Dialogue NGO will launch a project aimed at strengthening and promoting democratic values among Armenian youth. The program will involve 18 young men and women from Vanadzor and the surrounding area.

Peace Dialogue NGO to Train Young Civic Journalists Thanks to CFLI Funding.

Peace Dialogue recently received a 24,000 Canadian dollar grant from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) to run a series of media trainings for next-generation, civic journalists in the three northern regions of Armenia: Shirak, Lori and Tavush. The project starts in September, 2019 and will support 21 aspiring, young journalists (7 from each region) with trainings at workshops in Gyumri and Dilijan led by local and international journalists and media experts.

In 2019, Peace Dialogue will be involved as a partner organization in an initiative called “Developing Capacities for Women Focused Networks in the Southern Caucasus”. The project is run by the organization CRISP, a Berlin-based NGO actively working on directions of conflict transformation and civic education. The project is aimed at establishing a network of empowered women from civil society and local administration and from villages who will support each other and work together to address the needs of women in remote villages.

Warrant officer Kamo Sargsyan, Galina Harutyunyan’s son, who also participated in the Karabakh war, disappeared from the combat field. He has been considered a missing person since 1994.

There is very little constructive public discussion on the legacy of the recent violent past in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Mainstream narratives in the societies foster collective memory that leaves little space for alternative understandings of history and a variety of ‘truths’.

The Karabakh Conflict Archive is a non-governmental initiative to create a collection of materials reflecting the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The project is being implemented by civil society organisations interested in collecting a range of sources that help preserve the memory of how the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict evolved and what people lived through.

Peace Dialogue NGO has initiated a project directed to the prevention of cases of torture against persons involved in criminal proceedings at the Military Police Departments. In the frames of the Project, PD will try to disclose the faults in the national legislation regulating the area from the point of view of the protection of citizens’ rights of freedom from torture and disclose the discrepancies between international documents ratified by the RA and proposals made by international institutions involved in the field. Besides, the Project Staff will also present suggestions on legal reforms in the sphere, which will be aimed at raising the public awareness on the topic and promoting positive changes in the law-enforcement practice.