Projects in Eurasia
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Workshops and Policy Development with Professionals from Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan Any solution to conflicts that date back decades or centuries, will not be simple or quick. Such conflicts impact people's hearts and minds and shape entire societies. Growing up, children learn who the 'enemy' is at school, from the media, from their grandparents. Thus when countries' leaders make peace on paper, it takes much longer for this peace to translate to the civic level. ICfC will be conducting collaborative workshops with educators, journalists, non-governmental leaders and others who are in position to contribute towards a shift in public opinions. These workshops will result in policy recommendations for public agencies to enable the shift in public attitudes to take hold in Turkish, Armenian, and Azerbaijani societies. |
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Imagine 2008 In the summer of 2008, ICfC will cooperate on organizing the Imagine Dialogue bringing together Armenian and Azerbaijani students and Turkish and Armenian students enrolled in the universities in the U.S. The one week long intensive program combines joint living, outdoors team-building programs with intensive dialogue and training focused on enhancing dialogue and conflict resolution skills. ICfC joins the program that is building on a few years of experience with this and related programs. Dialogue groups in 2007 Prior to joining ICfC in 2007 as a Fellow , Phil Gamaghelyan co-organized the Turkish-Armenian Dialogue group (TADG), based at Brandeis University, and ran several other Turkish-Armenian and Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue groups (project Imagine) with students and young professionals from the region. The Imagine project was facilitated by three faciliators: one from Armenia, one from Azerbaijan, and one from the Unites States. It sets as its goal to change attitudes of the participants, form a strong network of future professionals from the region, and jointly generate new learning that takes the needs, concerns and hopes of both sides into consideration and that can be used in the peace process. Imagine groups will continue to meet in the summer 2008. To read more about the project Imagine, please visit the Imagine website.
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