Peace Dialogue
| Address | 1apt. 71 Tigran Mets str., Vanadzor |
| Postcode | 2001 |
| Country | Armenia |
| Phone number | +374 322 4 60 59 |
| Website | www.peacedialogue.am |
| Facebook group | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-Dialogue-NGO/207421050170 |
| Twitter account | http://twitter.com/peacedialogue |
| Youtube | http://www.youtube.com/user/PeaceDialogueNGO |
| Date of foundation | 10/01/ 2009 |
| Name Contact person | Armine Zakaryan |
| Email contact person | email hidden; JavaScript is required |
| Number of Staff | 6 |
| Number of Volunteers | 4 |
| Vision and aims of organization | The vision of the organization is, through the formation of multilayer dialogue, to create consciousness among members of society so that they themselves are responsible for peace, that they are vested with the right to demand peace from the authorities. Our mission is to support the active participation of civil society in the processes of peaceful conflict resolution and promotion of respectful dialogue among members of conflicting societies, with the long-term aim of contributing to peaceful regulation and prevention of new conflicts. |
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| Activities main focus | The main activities of the organization is aimed at
Our organization strives to achieve its strategic goals through organization of various conferences, seminars, workshops, researches, monitorings, etc. |
| International Activities 2010-2011 | International Training Course “Connecting Peace – Connecting Active Non-violence (August 30 – September 5, 2010) The aim of the international training course was to establish a network of young representatives of peace NGOs from Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, UK, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, and Armenia who are actively involved in peacebuilding activity, get acquainted with the conflicts in which the mentioned countries are involved and come with joint initiatives. See more: http://peacedialogue.am/english/activity_more.php?SID=2&AID=311&TopicId=4&Language=EngProject “Mountains of Peace” (October 2009 – October 2010) The website www.mountainsofpeace.org is a project of the peace organization IKV Pax Christi (the Netherlands) . The project is aimed at stimulating a safe and respectful sharing of visions and ideas on the conflict on Nagorno Karabakh and the Georgian – South Ossetian conflict and at providing links between the region and the outer world. See more: www.mountainsofpeace.org Study Trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina (October, 2010) The project was |
| Regional Activities for 2010-2011 | Seminar: “The Role of Youth from the South Caucasus in Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts: Possibilities of Participants (May 1-2, 2010) The aim of the seminar held in Kutasi, Georgia, was the active involvement of youth from the conflicting regions in the South Caucasus in peacebuilding processes. See more: http://peacedialogue.am/english/activity_more.php?SID=2&AID=274&TopicId=4&Language=Eng Workshop: “The Impact Project: “Youth Leaders |
| Local Activities for 2010-2011 | Workshop: “Media Roles” (September 18-19, 2010) The workshop organized by Peace Dialogue was aimed to find out modern mass media’s impact on perceptions of youth about their social roles and how youth become the agents of this influence. See more: http://peacedialogue.am/english/activity_more.php?SID=2&AID=313&TopicId=4&Language=Eng Public Discussion: “Significant Changes in Turkey’s Foreign Policy and Recent
The Screening Discussion of the Documentary “Neither War nor Peace”
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| Upcoming events | At the beginning of 2011 Peace Dialogue NGO has launched the project “Let’s See… Let’s Choose… Let’s Change…” in the framework of its three-year youth strategy “See Who We Are, Choose Who We Want To Be”. The project is aimed to establish a group of young men and women in Vanadzor, who take responsibility and recognize the importance of their role in achieving peace in their community, country and region. They will be working towards the creation of a society that is aware and accepting of non-violent solutions to Armenia’s conflicts, through the mobilization of their peers and cooperation with active youth groups and civil society organizations from other conflicting and post-conflict countries. The uniqueness of the launched project is the fact that it will be implemented exclusively based on the suggestions and the ideas of the involved participants. Actually, it is going to be an experiment, not in the sense of whether it will succeed or not, but that there is no developed plan for every activity and single step, and at the same time the expected impacts and outcomes are planned. In the framework of “Let’s See… Let’s Choose… Let’s Change…” project the process will really depend on the initiatives, needs and potential of the involved youth. |
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| International Day of Peace | In the framework of the project “Let’s See… Let’s Choose… Let’s Change…” we plan the organization of the celebration of the International Day of Peace. The idea of the project is that the participants choose themselves what initative they want to implement dedicated to this date. |
| Do you organize a special event for the Women’s Day (8 March) |
Peace Dialogue intends to organize a series of three workshops on gender issue for the community youth which will be dedicated to the International Women’s Day. |
