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For over a decade, Peace Dialogue NGO has been committed to enhancing human rights conditions within the Armenian Armed Forces. Since 2015, the organization’s monitoring group has been diligently assessing and monitoring these conditions. Between June and August 2024, Peace Dialogue’s monitoring group conducted a series of in-depth interviews with participants of the military training program in the Armenian Army. The goal was to gather comprehensive insights into the human rights conditions experienced during these military trainings.

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.

On July 26, 2024, Peace Dialogue NGO hosted a multi-stakeholder discussion titled “Mapping and Addressing the Needs of Conflict-Affected Groups in Armenia: Hopes, Fears, and Expectations in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Process.”

This report presents findings from standardized interviews conducted with individuals displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh who have found refuge in Armenia. It includes perspectives from those displaced during the mass exodus in September 2023.

The “Promotion of Human Rights in the RA Defense Sector” is an initiative led by Peace Dialogue NGO, focusing on leveraging the potential of civil society to boost the effectiveness of governmental efforts in enhancing human rights within the Armenian Defense Sector.

This initiative seeks to establish oversight by civil society on the formulation and execution of state policies and to identify existing challenges within the Defense Sector with the goal of devising recommendations for their resolution.

Peace Dialogue NGO is committed to supporting the rights of conscripts during the 2024 summer conscription period.
Conscripts and their families are invited to contact us for legal advice and professional support before the end of the conscription period. Additionally, we offer assistance to citizens participating in Military Reserve Force Trainings.

This research specifically aims at identifying the perceptions existing within the Armenian society regarding issues such as security (including peace), freedom, identity, and prosperity. The theories on basic human needs, particularly Johan Galtung’s typology of Basic Human Needs shape the theoretical framework of the research. A particular objective was set forth to determine societal expectations regarding the process of normalizing the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and to identify the prevailing narratives on the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations.