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The Association ‘Rondine Cittadella della Pace’ has been committed to actions of solidarity, dialogue and peace in the Caucasus since its beginnings. For more than ten years university students of different cultures or coming from conflict zones in several parts of the world, and particularly from the Caucasus area, have been selected through a network of partners from the institutional, academic, religious, associational and diplomatic fields, to take part in the project of dialogue building and reconciliation of the International Hall of Residence in Rondine.
The project ‘Ventidipacesucaucaso’ (Windofpeaceoncaucasus – www.ventidipacesucaucaso.it) is the outcome of a focused elaboration of the Association with international partners and Italian institutions.
It aims at creating an international feeling of friendship and cooperation for the Caucasus so as to give a contribution to the resolution of tensions in that region where the Association has been operating since 1995 and has built many relationships at an institutional, cultural, economic and religious level.
The ‘Conference of the peoples of the Caucasus’ saw the participation of around 130 guests coming from several parts of the region and from the rest of the world (young people, mothers and families, members of the cultural and economic world and exponents from the civil society), together with international specialists, students of the International Hall of Residence and the members of the Association.
First result of the meeting, held from the 16th to the 19th May 2009, was the ratification of a document for peace in the Caucasus in 14 points that is to be used as a path or track to replace the old bureaucracies which now appear inadequate for international crisis’ prevention and management, besides generating international sympathy and joining the forces of the involved peoples.
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ACGRC became a member of the Danish Development Research Network
ACGRC became a member of the Black Sea Research Network (BSRN). BSRN is an action-focused and multidisciplinary network of policy-oriented research institutes that develop research programmes on issues of importance to the political, social and economic development of the Black Sea region. It represents an innovative attempt to structure and coordinate a network of research institutes (and researchers) focusing on the wider Black Sea region. The Network is working under the patronage of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (Greece).
Chairman of the Board of the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation Stepan Grigoryan took part in the Czech Television film Sore Spots of Southern Caucasus.
Petruška Šustrová is the script author and Martin Mahdal is cameraman and producer of the film.
ACGRC became a member of the Central and Eastern European Citizens Network (CEE CN). The network was created to provide opportunities for citizens' grassroots initiatives from CEE region to learn, exchange experiences and ideas as well as enhance their organisational growth through establishing and managing a partner relationship among themselves.