In June 2010, Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) became one of the five partners of the European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (EPNK). CMI is a leading actor in building sustainable peace and facilitating collaborative conflict resolution by engaging people affected by violent conflict. In the EPNK framework, CMI aimed to strengthen the capacity of Conflict Affected Groups (particularly young leaders) to engage in the conflict resolution processes, contributing to the cumulative growth of a nucleus of people engaged in progressing the agenda of constructive conflict transformation. After a series of capacity building exercises, the young leaders from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh that have participated in the project were given the chance to develop their own peacebuilding initiatives. As a partner of the project, Peace Dialogue actively supports and will go on supporting the participants in the process of implementing their own initiatives.
In 2011, in the framework of the project, Tigran Gevorgyan and Armine Babayan, young leaders from Armenia, organised discussions on the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in several towns and villages of Armenia. At the end of the project, they announced a contest of creative works called “Peace Through My Eyes”, in which a lot of young people from Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Dilijan, and Ijevan took part. In this booklet, which we decided to devote to the International Day of Peace celebrated on September 21, we have published only some of the numerous works presented for the contest, in addition to several other worthy works. We hope that the booklet will remind everybody once again how important the role of each of us is on the complicated way to peace.
Peace Through the Eyes of Youth (PDF, 2 Mb)
