21 April, 2010
TV PROGRAM ON “GENDER AND GENDER EQUALITY” – HELD ON MIG TV
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Edgar Khachatryan, the director of “Peace Dialogue” NGO, was the guest of
“Gender and Gender equality” program within the framework of the TV project “Our rights” on Vanadzor’s “MIG-TV” on April 14, 2010. The aim of “Our rights” project, which is being implemented within the framework of the German Marshall Foundation’s “Black Sea regional co-operation” project, is to increase the level of Vanadzor citizen’s legal awareness towards human rights by informing people. The guests of the live broadcast, along with project’s experts, are trying to represent to the TV audience the idea of Gender, its connection with human rights and democracy, and its influence on social and political developments in Armenia.
more»02 April, 2010
“GENDER COUNTS” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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SUMMARY: The “Gender Counts: 10 Years of UN Resolution 1325 - Retrospective, Challenges and Perspectives” international conference was held from 24th-26th March, 2010 in Berlin. The conference was aimed to analyze different experiences in the implementation of UN Resolution 1325, as well as to understand the needs of local actors in conflict transformation strategies and reconciliation work, in the development of democratic societies, in conflict and post-conflict regions, and in training and deployment of military and civilian personnel in intervention countries.
more»28 January, 2010
10 Years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 - “RETROSPECTIVE, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES”
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From 24 to 26 of March of 2010 Peace Dialogue NGO has been invited to participate in the work of the International Conference Celebrating 10 Years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 - “Retrospective, Challenges and Perspectives”, organised by OWEN e.V. in Berlin/Germany. The purpose of the conference is to analyse different experiences in the implementation of UN Resolution 1325, as well as to understand the needs of local actors.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, accompanied by his wife and representatives of the Russian government, arrived in Yerevan on August 19 on a state visit to cement the Russo-Armenian military alliance with a new defence agreement. During his visit he also took part in unofficial summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). 
Vanadzor youth has celebrated the international youth day on August 11 in the Vanadzor State Theater named after H. Abelyan with a photo exhibition and a concert. This was the first time that this holiday was celebrated so significantly in Vanadzor; more than five hundred people participated in the photo exhibition and in the concert. The preparatory activities for this project were started by Peace Dialogue NGO with the support of the NGO’s board members, NGO OWEN in Germany, and from individual contributions from German citizens. From May 2010, more than forty young people were participants in the photo contest and representative of music bands in Vanadzor were involved in the organization. 
The screening discussion of the documentary “Neither War nor Peace” was organized by Peace Dialogue NGO for Zangakatun charitable foundation’s Zangak social service center’s beneficiaries on August 27. The previous screening discussion of Peace Dialogue member Vahagn Antonyan and his Azerbaijani colleague Asef Guliev from AzTV was held in “Crossing Roads” NGO on August 2. Several participants of “One day with my friends” project of Peace Dialogue also attended the discussion in Zangak, who had been actively involved in the discussion and shared together with the Zangak beneficiaries their emotions and thoughts after seeing the documentary. 
“The Role of Youth from the South Caucasus in Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts: Possibilities of Participation” youth seminar was held in Kutaisi on the 1st and 2nd of May by the Sukhumi Foundation. The aim of the seminar was to actively involve youth in peace building processes. The seminar was organized with the support of OMNIBUS 1325 International Peacebuilding Network and was one of several seminars organized by the network within the framework of peace building issues within the region. 
From the 28th to 29th of July Peace Dialogue NGO hosted its partners from Georgia in the framework of ‘Active involvement of women in political life of Georgia through integration of gender perspective and democratization of electoral processes’ project. Representatives of Sukhumi Foundation visited Vanadzor. 
The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) is recognized as a leading organisation in the fields of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, violence prevention and post-war recovery.