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THROUGH DEMOCRACY TO LASTING PEACE: PEACE DIALOGUE NGO’S ANNUAL REVIEW | 2023 – 2024
January 03, 2025

At Peace Dialogue, we have always believed that democracy is the foundation for lasting peace. For us, democracy is not just about governance or elections—it is a process that places human dignity, participatory justice, and inclusive dialogue at the heart of peacebuilding. It is a living and evolving commitment to fairness, accountability, and the empowerment of all voices, especially in societies fractured by conflict. Over the past two years, the political and geopolitical challenges in our region and beyond have tested this belief. The transformative power of dialogue, advocacy, and collective action remains our guiding principle, even as the context of our work becomes increasingly complex and fragile.

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Interim Report of the Monitoring Group Observing the Activities RA MoD within the Scope of the National Strategy for Human Rights Protection for 2017-2019

March 28, 2019
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The monitoring group formed within the scope of the “Proactive Civil Society Participation in the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the Armenian Military Forces” initiative is comprised of seven representatives of Human Rights and Media NGOs. 

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Peace Dialogue: Annual Report | 2017 – 2018

February 08, 2019

Dear partners, friends, beneficiaries and supporters. We are happy to inform you that on 10 January 2019, Peace Dialogue NGO celebrated its 10th Anniversary. 

Notwithstanding the tense geopolitical processes underway in the region over the past years, together with its partners, the PD team has carried on its activities directed to the capacity building and empowerment of civil society representatives from Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Russia in the sphere of peacebuilding and human rights protection.

With the present publication, we are presenting to your attention the biannual report of Peace Dialogue NGO for the years 2017-2018. 

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Comic Stripe “March 1: Who Said That It Was The Army That Shot People?”

November 22, 2018
We present to your attention a comic stripe by artist Vahrad Melikjanyan, which is based on the facts disclosed in the aforementioned material. You can find the full comic stripe here

Recently in the website of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia a material has been published under the headline “The head of the former investigative group and the forensic expert on the March 1 criminal case have been involved as accused for falsification of evidence”. According to the material, during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case of the incidents of March 1, 2008, the head of the investigative group, together with the investigators, Police officers, and experts involved in the case falsified case-related evidences by substituting the bullets shot from guns belonging to units of Armed Forces for bullets released from the those belonging to the Police.

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Human Rights in the Armed Forces. A Step-by-Step Guide for Future Conscripts

October 21, 2018
The Guide has been developed based on the issues raised by citizens, who have applied to Peace Dialogue NGO over the past years. That is to say, the authors tried to introduce pre-conscription and conscription aged young people to their rights concerning the compulsory military conscription, as well as the service itself, in an easier and more comprehensive way.

Dear visitors, Peace Dialogue NGO has released a step-by-step guide for future conscripts called “Human Rights in the Armed Forces.” The guide has been developed based on the issues raised by citizens, who have applied to Peace Dialogue NGO over the past years. That is to say, the authors tried to introduce pre-conscription and conscription aged young people to their rights concerning the compulsory military conscription, as well as the service itself, in an easier and more comprehensive way.

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Quarterly Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Armenian Armed Forces/ Vol.8

July 21, 2018
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Period: April – June 2018
The newly formed government presented its program to the National Assembly, which was approved by a majority vote on June 7. A key argument against the program was that it bore a resemblance to a wish list with zero measurability. During the Parliamentary session on the government project, Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated that an action plan to clarify the terms of implementation and the measurability of their outcomes was under development and would soon be presented.

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Quarterly Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Armenian Armed Forces/ Vol.7

April 12, 2018
This report includes the latest analysis and covers the following topics: The concept “Nation-Army”: prospects of improvement of human rights conditions in the Armenian Military Forces; Health Checkups for Conscription and Medical Examination; The MOD Hinders the Demobilization of Officers; Statistics of fatalities in the Armenian Army in the first quarter of 2018; Information related to the investigation of the death of soldier David Terteryan; Information related to the investigation of private soldiers Grigor Avetisyan’s and Souren Aramyan’s death cases; Update on the court case of the death of Private Manuchar Manucharyan; Update on the court case of the death of Private Haroutyun Hambaryan.

January – March 2018
Three of the four fractions of the RA Parliament – the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), the Tsarukyan Alliance and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)- avoided responding to the inquiry initiated by “Peace Dialogue” NGO regarding the “Nation-Army” concept.

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Quarterly Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Armed Forces / Vol.6

January 27, 2018
Peace Dialogue is presenting the current issue of its quarterly report on the conditions of Human Rights in the RA Military Forces. Peace Dialogue is an Armenian non-governmental organization active in peace building, democracy and human rights. One of the main spheres of its activities is monitoring of human rights violations in the RA Armed Forces, in pursuit of justice and initiation of public debate on current issues in the Armenian Armed Forces, particularly aimed, but not limited to, at seeking relevant solutions and promoting those solutions by presenting them to the Armenian authorities and relevant international actors.

October-December 2017
Peace Dialogue is presenting the current issue of its quarterly report on the conditions of Human Rights in the RA Military Forces. Peace Dialogue is an Armenian non-governmental organization active in peace building, democracy and human rights.

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