ACTIVITIES
European Union Mission in Armenia – 1st Anniversary: Contributing to Human Security and Confidence-Building
On March 14, 2024, a roundtable discussion was convened in Yerevan, featuring Dr. Markus Ritter, Head of Mission of the European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA), his team, and representatives from the Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF ANP). This meeting was initiated by Edgar Khachatryan, president of the Peace Dialogue NGO and national facilitator of the EaP CSF ANP, with the support of the EUMA team.
Planning Workshops for Women’s Peace Agency Project Held in Yerevan and Vanadzor
The Women’s Peace Agency (WPA) team from Peace Dialogue NGO held a series of project-planning workshops in Yerevan and Vanadzor, Armenia. Forty-five participants representing women and women’s groups active in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Akori, Archis, Ayrum, Stepanavan and Spitak attended the meetings. Additional workshops will be held in the coming months in other cities like Ijevan or Stepanakert. These workshops are organised by Peace Dialogue NGO (PD) with the support from the Finish organisation Crisis Management Initiative(CMI).
Young Women’s Leadership Workshop
Peace Dialogue NGO organized a three-day workshop entitled Young Women՛s Leadership Workshop from August 15 -17. It was aimed at capacity building in human rights, democracy and peaceful settlement of the conflicts for young women and girls who are involved in civic activism in different cities and villages of Armenia.
The Perspective of Armenian Youth on Current Political and Civic Developments
For already two weeks Peace Dialogue NGO has been implementing a research within its Safe Soldiers for a Safe Armenia project. The research is aimed at studying the political and civic attitudes and values among young people.
UK Ambassador to Armenia Shared With the Lessons Learned from Peace Initiatives
The Ambassador discussed the conflict with the representatives of NGOs, political parties, and media, as well as young people; however she preferred to talk more deeply about what lessons were learned during the conflict resolution from peace building initiatives.
How Democratic and Peace-minded are we?
In the 1980s a group of Jewish scholars and teachers were concerned about the growing hostility towards democratic values and growing ethnocentrism in the Jewish society. They had already recorded long time ago the failure of the education system in the area of peace and democracy.
Partnership Was Established Between Russian and Armenian Human Rights Defenders
While presenting with a speech during the workshop Human rights in the Armed Forces: Systemization of Experience, he announced: “What we have heard during these two days from our Armenian colleagues about the human rights issues in the army makes us feel seriously concerned.”
The History-Theatre Workshop in Tbilisi
Collective memory gives people a sense of belonging. History helps to explain the world. A shared view of history can motivate people to take action that changes the future. These were the main massages that the organizers intended to pass to the participants of the History-Theatre workshop, held in Tbilisi from 17-24 of November, 2013.
