Implemented Projects

Peace Dialogue NGO to Train Young Civic Journalists Thanks to CFLI Funding.

Peace Dialogue recently received a 24,000 Canadian dollar grant from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) to run a series of media trainings for next-generation, civic journalists in the three northern regions of Armenia: Shirak, Lori and Tavush. The project starts in September, 2019 and will support 21 aspiring, young journalists (7 from each region) with trainings at workshops in Gyumri and Dilijan led by local and international journalists and media experts.

In 2019, Peace Dialogue will be involved as a partner organization in an initiative called “Developing Capacities for Women Focused Networks in the Southern Caucasus”. The project is run by the organization CRISP, a Berlin-based NGO actively working on directions of conflict transformation and civic education. The project is aimed at establishing a network of empowered women from civil society and local administration and from villages who will support each other and work together to address the needs of women in remote villages.

Peace Dialogue NGO has initiated a project directed to the prevention of cases of torture against persons involved in criminal proceedings at the Military Police Departments. In the frames of the Project, PD will try to disclose the faults in the national legislation regulating the area from the point of view of the protection of citizens’ rights of freedom from torture and disclose the discrepancies between international documents ratified by the RA and proposals made by international institutions involved in the field. Besides, the Project Staff will also present suggestions on legal reforms in the sphere, which will be aimed at raising the public awareness on the topic and promoting positive changes in the law-enforcement practice.

On August 20-27, 2018, 24 young people aged 18-25 representing France, Germany, Turkey, and Armenia, reunited in Vanadzor and Yerevan for implementing the second phase of the four-national exchange program launched in November, 2017. The project is organized by the Marseille-based organization “Une Terre Culturelle” with the participation of Centre Français de Berlin (French Center in Berlin), AFS in Istanbul, and the Vanadzor-based “Peace Dialogue” NGO.

In September 2018, Peace Dialogue NGO will start an initiative called “Proactive civil society participation in the protection and promotion of human rights in the Armenian Military Forces”. This project is aimed at promoting civil society mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of actions derived from the National Human Rights Action Plan for 2017-2019.

On September 26, 2017 the Peace Dialogue NGO team, in partnership with the grass roots community, completed the three-month project entitled “Our platform’’, the focus of which was on leadership and community organizing.

The project is called “Promotion of Human Rights Mechanisms among the Future Conscripts in the Armenian Military Forces” and is aimed at raising awareness of the future conscripts about the mechanisms of the human rights protection in the Military Forces and at equipping them with practical skills and instruments that will help them to stand for their rights during the military service.