Caucasus and Central Asia

Background of the conflict and Alert’s engagement

Location

International Alert has been working in the Caucasus since 1993 and in Central Asia since 2005. Our work focuses on supporting civil society, individual peace constituencies and business communities to participate in solving problems of peace and conflict in the region.

Our work includes:

Location

Armenian-Azerbaijan Public Peace Forum (March, 2009) final document in Azeri.

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ArmenianAzerbaijaniForumAz.pdf

Final document of the Armenian-Azerbaijan public peace forum (March, 2009). In Armenian.

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ArmenianAzerbaijaniForumArm.pdf

Final focument of the 3rd Armenian-Azerbaijan public peace forum, March 2009. Russian version.

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ArmenianAzerbaijaniForumRus.pdf

Final document of the 3rd Armenian-Azerbaijan public peace forum.

English version.

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ArmenianAzerbaijaniForum.pdf

Press Release on Consortium Initiative, 26 November, 2008. Russian version.

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ConsortuimInitiativeRus.pdf

Press Release
26th November 2008

NGOs ask for more transparency in the Karabakh Peace Process
and for more contact between governments and non state actors working on this issue.

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ConsortiumInitiative.pdf

Press Release on Nagorno Karabakh, 2 July 2009. In Russian.

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KarabakhPressRelease.pdf

Between 4th-6th February 2011, International Alert’s economy and conflict project partners, the Caucasus Business and Development Network (CBDN), organised a regional beekeepers’ meeting to discuss challenges and possibilities for regional cooperation in the beekeeping sector.

From the 9th-12th of January 2011, International Alert hosted the third in a series of training courses for teachers from South Ossetia in Amsterdam.

Between 25th-29th March 2010 International Alert held an Armenian-Azerbaijani Youth Peace Forum in Amman, Jordan. 25 participants from across the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict divide travelled to Jordan to meet with counterparts from the other side.

The young Armenians and Azerbaijanis took part in training workshops as well as in interactive exercises. The trainers and the facilitators of the Youth Forum were representatives of the older generation of peace activists who have been working in the region with Alert for more than a decade.

‘Global Trends and Threats and the South Caucasus’ was the topic of a regional roundtable that International Alert organised in Tbilisi, Georgia on 13th April 2010. Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian experts took part in this one-day event, together with representatives from the international community and international organisations based in Tbilisi, as well as diplomats from some of the embassies in Georgia.

The repeated recurrences of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict since 1992 following the break-up of the Soviet Union, along with the increasing isolation of South Ossetia from the outside world have resulted in widespread trauma and the destruction of South Ossetian social fabric. In particular, since the latest flare-up of violent hostilities in August 2008, working on such a prolonged and deep conflict requires an extremely careful and balanced approach based on the principle of “do no harm”.

A draft policy concept on the prevention of radicalism among youth in Tajikistan was presented this week at a Forum organised by International Alert in partnership with the Committee on Youth Affairs, Sport and Tourism of the Government of Tajikistan. Over 60 government officials, political party leaders, civil society representatives, students, religious scholars and other key experts joined in constructive discussions on policy steps to increase youth’s resilience to radical ideas.