Trans Caucasus Women's Dialogue
The Transcaucasus Women's Dialogue is an outgrowth of first Women's Forum on Democracy and Development held in Armenia in 1991, and facilitated by National Peace Foundation Board members Professors Sarah Harder and Deborah K. Welsh.
In June 1994, under the Foundation's aegis, six women leaders from each of the three Transcaucasus Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, came to Washington for a week of meetings and dialogue. At the conclusion of the meetings, the women agreed to continue the Dialogue as a means for building peace in the Transcaucasus region, to develop strategies for conflict resolution and democracy building in the areas through creation of centers for peace, and to help create rehabilitation centers for children as a means of addressing critical human needs.
The women have established individual women's councils in each of the three countries, and set up projects in the areas of peace and democracy building and rehabilitation of children. To continue the Dialogue the women have held several face-to-face meetings, including ones in Moscow in January and October 1995 and Tbilisi, Georgia in June 1996 and Athens in October 1997.This functional approach to peacebuilding is working and the Dialogue is increasingly recognized as one of the more important civic enterprises in the three new, still struggling, democracies.
Major funding for this project has been provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Eurasia Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and members of the National Peace Foundation.
of the three Transcaucasus Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, came to Washington for a week of meetings and dialogue. At the conclusion of the meetings, the women agreed to continue the Dialogue as a means for building peace in the Transcaucasus region, to develop strategies for conflict resolution and democracy building in the areas through creation of centers for peace, and to help create rehabilitation centers for children as a means of addressing critical human needs.The women have established individual women's councils in each of the three countries, and set up projects in the areas of peace and democracy building and rehabilitation of children. To continue the Dialogue the women have held several face-to-face meetings, including ones in Moscow in January and October 1995 and Tbilisi, Georgia in June 1996 and Athens in October 1997.This functional approach to peacebuilding is working and the Dialogue is increasingly recognized as one of the more important civic enterprises in the three new, still struggling, democracies.
Major funding for this project has been provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Eurasia Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and members of the National Peace Foundation.