Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation
European Debates were held at the House of Europe in Tbilisi (Georgia) on
15-16 May 2010. Distinguished foreign analysts, experts and observers
assembled to discuss the current situation in the South Caucasus and its
relation with other countries.
The event was opened by President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. Poland's
ex-president Aleksander Kwasniewski also participated in the debates.
Chairman of the Board of ACGRC Stepan Grigoryan took part in the event and made a report during
the plenary session: "Is the region moving closer to the EU?"
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On 29 April - 1 May 2010, the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and
Regional Cooperation organised a Working meeting of civil activists and
historians of the South Caucasian countries in Tbilisi (Georgia). The aims
of the meeting were: to organise discussions about the dilemmas in teaching
and interpreting history of the South Caucasus in Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Georgia, to emphasise our peoples’ positive experience in cohabitation by
means of cooperation between Armenian, Azeri, and Georgian historians, and
to represent the articles which have been written for inclusion in the book
History and Identity: the South Caucasus and Other Regions in Transition.
The project is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
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On 15-16 April 2010 Dr. Stepan Grigoryan participated in the
International Security Forum “From Ukrainian Security to European Security.
21st Century Challenges” in Lviv (Ukraine). The Forum brought together
experts on state security and international relations from 22 countries - EU,
Russia , CIS countries, USA, China and Qatar.
The Forum was organised by the Council for Foreign and Security Policy in
partnership with Razumkov Centre, the International Centre for Policy
Studies, and the West Analytic Group under support of Lviv Regional State
Administration, Lviv Regional Council and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Read resolution of the Forum
here.
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On 6-9 April 2010, coordinators of the Toolkit for Successful Advocacy
project held a meeting in Yerevan.
The project is initiated by the Romanian Pro Democracy Association. The
project partners are Human Rights Centre (Georgia), Centre for Network
Initiatives Support (Russian Federation) and the Analytical Centre on
Globalisation and Regional Cooperation (Armenia).
On 7 April project coordinators from Armenia Georgia, Romania and Russia met
with H.E. Crina Prunariu (Ambassador of Romania in Armenia) and Marius
Florescu (Second Secretary of the Embassy of Romania in Armenia ). The
coordinators presented the project idea and informed the Embassy about the
project advancement.
The project is supported by the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, a
project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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On 26-28 March 2010, ACGRC chairman Stepan
Grigoryan visited Tbilisi. During his stay in Georgia, Dr. Grigoryan made a
report “Development of Social Democracy” at the international conference
“Social Democracy in South Caucasus”.
The conference was organised jointly by the European Forum for Democracy and
Solidarity, the S&D Group in the European Parliament and the Party of
European Socialists (PES). The conference was supported by the British
Labour Party through the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
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On March 21-24, ACGRC and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) conducted the
third “Armenia-Turkey Civil Diplomacy Dialogue” workshop. The workshop
brought together a number of distinguished experts from Armenia and Turkey,
as well as representatives of the diplomatic missions and international
organisations accredited to Armenia.
The workshop aimed for strengthening civil society initiatives for improving
Armenian-Turkish bilateral relations and trust building between societies
through the cooperation of independent experts from Armenia and Turkey
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Chairman of the Board of ACGRC Stepan Grigoryan was one of the speakers
during the Panel on Nagorno-Karabakh, together with Ambassador Bernard
Fassier (OSCE MINSK Group Co-Chair) and Tabib Huseynov, (Analyst,
International Crisis Group, Azerbaijan), during the 73rd NATO Parliamentary
Assembly Rose Roth Seminar in Yerevan, Armenia on March 11-13. Members of
parliaments of more than a dozen NATO and partner countries attended the
seminar.
Focusing on security issues in the South Caucasus region, the seminar
featured panels on the tense relationships between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
as well as between Georgia and Russia in the aftermath of the 2008 war. The
most spirited discussions centred on the Turkey-Armenia rapprochement, with
a frank exchange between members of parliament from Turkey and Armenia on
the issues that continue to block the normalisation of relations between two countries.
READ: The seminar report and Stepan Grigoryan's concept note.
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March 3, 2010
ACGRC organised a seminar: Armenian-Turkish Protocols: Contents and Possible Results with support of the Heinrich Boll Foundation South Caucasus Office. The seminar was attended by students and representatives of youth NGOs. Keynote speakers were Vahan Ter-Ghevondyan (Ambassador, Head of the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Democracy and European Studies, Yerevan State Linguistic University after V.Brusov) and Valeri Poghosyan (Member of the Constitutional Court of Armenia). The seminar was moderated by Prof. Artush Babajanyan (lecturer on political science at the Slavonic University).
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Head of the Public Union of Armenian History Educators working under ACGRC aegis, Prof. Haykaz Hovhannisyan and Chairman of the ACGRC Board Dr. Stepan Grigoryan participated in international workshop Tolerance Building through History Education in Georgia: How to Teach History and Citizenship in a Multicultural and Multi-religious Environment. The workshop was organised in Tbilisi (Georgia) on January 22-24 by EUROCLIO and GAHE and was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
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