Video about the study visit to Armenia

What is Peace for the participants

Follow-up projects made by the participants

These four projects are drafts of follow-up projects made by the participants during the study visit to Armenia

1.
Project name - Peace Builder's
Aim - To provide peace building tools to the youth leaders.
Objectives
- To develop the knowledge regarding to Caucasus Conflict, Human Rights, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Management;
- To share good practices;
- To create follow activities.


2.
Project name - Peace Building Armenia-Turkey
Aim - Provide two young people from Armenia & Turkey to give a possibility get familiar with the cultural social life in country through personal experience in order to disseminate results online/published like diaries.
Objectives
- Creating awareness;
- Breaking prejudices of participants of project;
- Building bridges between two communities;
- Learn about each other cultures;
- Publish a book which contains two sides’ articles.

3.
Project name - Step-by-step for Peace
Aim - To increase youth role in peace building processes in local and international level
Objectives
- To support youth workers in realizing their role in peace building processes;
- To give basic information about peace education;
- To understand their approaches in peace building processes.

4. 

Project name - Dismantling media’s discursive practices about conflicts in the Caucasus
Aim - Empowering youth to better cope with media discourses about conflicts in the Caucasus
Objectives
- Give youth specific tools to react to the information they receive through media in a critical way;
- To increase understanding of the group about the motivations/interests specific media/governments have to adopt certain discourses;
- Increase awareness about most common media discursive practices;
- Create network;
- To change/develop attitudes towards critical thinking/openness.

Visit - NGO Armavir Developement Center

Arman Azizyan from the NGO Armavir Developement Center talked about the projects they developed in their NGO related with Peace Education and Peace Building.

For more information about their Peace Education and Peace Building projects, please visit the organization website.

Organization link - http://www.armavirdc.org/

Visit - NGO Regional Studies Center

Meeting with the Diretor of the Regional Studies Center, Richard Giragosian. This meeting was one of the highlights of the project regarding the understanding of the conflict in Armenia with the neighboring countries and the stages of Peace Building process.

Organization link - http://www.regional-studies.org/

"Youth Peace Camp” and “Peace Ambassadors”

Talk with the participants Vahan and Seg from the "Youth Peace Camp” and “Peace Ambassadors”, projects organized by the Council of Europe.

Vahan and Seg talked about their experience in those projects, what where there learning outcomes and what they brought to their local communities after the projects.


"Youth Peace Camp” - http://youthpeace.coe.int/Youth-Peace-Camp

“Peace Ambassadors” - http://youthpeace.coe.int/Project/Aims-and-objectives

Meeting with the representative of Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs

Davit Hayrapetyan is the Director of the Youth Events Holding Center from the Ministery of Sport and Youth Affairs. On this meeting we get to know the about youth policies in Armenia, the
project made and the approach of Armenian Government in relation to Peach building and to Peace education and the support the government gives to youth NGOs.

Visit from NGO IPYG

During our project we had the good fortunate of receiving a visit from the Vicky and Joshua, youth workers from the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG), that talked about the work they do regarding Peace Building around at an international level.

For more information about their Peace Education and Peace Building projects, please visit the organization website.

Organization link - http://ipyg.org/

Visit - NGO DVV International

Lusine Kharatyan was the representative of the NGO DVV International that talked with us about her NGO, the projects about Peace Building developed in Armenia and good practices related with Peace Education and Peace Building..

For more information about their Peace Education and Peace Building projects, please visit the organization website.

Organization link - http://www.dvv-international.am/

Visit - NGO Hrant Dink Foundation

We had the please of receiving Anush Babajanyan from the Hrant Dink Foundation, where she explain us the projects made and ongoing of her NGO related to Peace Building and Peace Education.

For more information about their Peace Education and Peace Building projects, please visit the organization website.

Organization link - http://www.hrantdink.org/

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