ACTIVITIES

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

The members of an evening activity club called Theatre of the Oppressed presented their first performances for the students of Vanadzor High School Number 11. It has already been two weeks since the club was first organized at Peace Dalogue NGO.

“As a result, we have three short films: ‘Me,’ ‘Choice’ and ‘The Dreamers’ that were combined into one film entitled ‘To be young in…,’” said Edgar Khachatryan, the President of Peace Dialogue. All three films talk about the issues that relate to young people.