Eu Peace-Building Efforts In Nagorno-Karabakh: Second Phase Of Civil

EU PEACE-BUILDING EFFORTS IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH: SECOND PHASE OF CIVIL SOCIETY PROGRAMME LAUNCHED

ARMENPRESS
OCTOBER 26, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS: The second phase of EU-funded
civil society programme, aimed at supporting the peace-building
efforts around the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has been launched,
reports Armenpress citing EU Neighbourhood Info Center. The European
Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh (EPNK) is a continuation of a programme launched in
2009 under the Instrument for Stability, promoting a dynamic dialogue
between a broad range of policymakers, media and civil society from
all sides of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It also
supports a wider participation of conflict-affected people in the
peace process, including women, youth, internally displaced persons
and refugees. EPNK is a consortium of five European NGOs, which seeks
to work with local partners in the South Caucasus on a wide range of
peace-building projects to improve framework conditions conducive to
positively impacting the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process.

The activities will run for three years and are arranged around three
main themes: media, public policy and conflict-affected groups. They
aim to broaden the base of participation in peace-building initiatives,
with special attention given to marginalised groups, build confidence
between all sides of the conflict through increased people-to-people
contact, promote fresh analysis and new ideas that challenge
existing discourses on the conflict with peace-oriented visions of
the future and actively engage civil society in dialogue with policy
makers at national and international levels on the transformation
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The European Union’s Instrument
for Stability is a special financial instrument created to support
the peaceful settlement of conflicts, de-escalation of tensions and
post-conflict rehabilitation world-wide.

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