ACTIVITIES

Empowering Young Minds: "Mind Puzzle" Summer School
Empowering Young Minds: «Mind Puzzle» Summer School
August 11, 2024

From July 29 to August 3, 2024, Peace Dialogue NGO hosted the «Mind Puzzle» summer school in Gyumri, designed to cultivate creative, analytical, and critical thinking among 12 young individuals from the Shirak, Lori, and Tavush regions of northern Armenia. Among the participants were young people from families forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023, who had found refuge in these regions. This initiative was part of the «Contact 3.0» project by Peace Dialogue, in partnership with the German organization OWEN.

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Training for Psychologists Working with Children Affected by the 44-Day War

June 01, 2021
© 2021. PHOTO BY PEACE DIALOGUE NGO. AUTHOR: ASHOT SARGSYAN

With the support of experts, 10 psychologists and social workers from Nagorno-Karabakh got acquainted with the advanced tools and methodologies for identifying war-affected children’s psychological problems and for providing assistance to children through various didactic materials, techniques, role-plays, case studies and relaxation exercises. The trainers gave the participants the opportunity to improve their theoretical and practical knowledge which will be applicable while working with children with anxiety, fears and phobias. The training process will be ongoing during the upcoming months.

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PROSPECT Public Discussion

April 16, 2021
The event was organized in cooperation with Conciliation Resources organization with the financial support of the European Union.

On the initiative of Peace Dialogue NGO, a public discussion entitled Prospect took place on 10-11 April, 2021. The purpose of the meeting was to promote public discourse on possible ways of overcoming the challenges of security, human rights protection and democracy in the newly-created situation as a result of the 44-day war. From a long-term perspective, the event was aimed at shaping a realistic vision of the future with the involvement of various public groups based on critical and self-critical analysis of lessons from the past and the present.

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Prohibition of Torture։ Informational Video for Conscripts

March 24, 2021
We call your attention to an informational video made specifically for conscripts, which tells about the right to refrain from torture and degrading treatment during military service, the state's obligations to ensure the right, as well as possible actions that should be taken to prevent violation of the right.

We call your attention to an informational video made specifically for conscripts, which tells about the right to refrain from torture and degrading treatment during military service, the state’s obligations to ensure the right, as well as possible actions that should be taken to prevent violation of the right.

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Monitoring Results of Defense Sector-Related Actions in the Scope of 2020-2022 Action Plan Deriving from Armenia’s National Strategy for Human Rights Protection

March 13, 2021
THE MONITORING OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEFENSE SECTOR-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF 2020-2022 ACTION PLAN DERIVING FROM THE RA NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS IS CARRIED OUT BY PEACE DIALOGUE NGO WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF GRANTS PROVIDED BY THE GERMAN FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE (REPRESENTED BY THE EMBASSY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY IN ARMENIA) AND OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS-ARMENIA.

This report is devoted to the monitoring of the implementation of the defense sector-related actions in the period from January 1 to December 31, 2020.

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Open Narratives: Series of workshops for young people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh

February 22, 2021
© 2021. PHOTO BY PEACE DIALOGUE NGO

Since February Peace Dialogue NGO has been conducting a series of workshops involving young participants from Nagorno-Karabakh who found a temporary or permanent residence in Lori region of Armenia. One of the main directions of the meetings is workshopping documentary photography, with the aim of developing young participants’ photography skills which will help them to create photo stories about their daily routine, hobbies, and challenges, thus bringing into effect their creative ideas.

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Legal assistance to conscripts

January 10, 2021
© 2021. ILLUSTRATION BY NAREK KARDASHYAN

Peace Dialogue NGO announces its readiness to support protection of conscripts’ rights during 2020 winter conscription for the purpose of avoiding issues raised in the process of ensuring comprehensiveness, completeness, and objectivity of the significant factual circumstances with regard to conscripts’ health condition in the course of 2020 winter conscription.

In order to exclude possible violations of their rights, conscripts can apply to Peace Dialogue NGO to be provided with legal consulting or other necessary professional assistance.

If necessary, please, contact us by email [email protected] or make a phone call by phone numbers +374 (55) 820 632, +374 (77) 188 138 or +374 (99) 888 120.

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Initiatives Aimed at Raising and Solving Women’s Issues will be Implemented in Armenian Regions of Lori and Tavush

September 05, 2020
© 2020. PHOTO BY PEACE DIALOGUE NGO. AUTHOR: MARIANNA KHAZHAKYAN

During the training, the participants discussed manifold women’s rights issues existing in their regions as well as addressed the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on women and girls in the South Caucasus. Besides, the participants were introduced to a number of effective methods and tools for identifying women’s issues and carrying out a root cause analysis in the respective regions.

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