European Movement Azerbaijan gave a start to a new project.
The Movement aims to bring Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians and Turkish under an umbrella.
European Movement Azerbaijan (EM Azerbaijan) gave a start to a project financed by the German Marshall Fund, USA.
There will be held a training for the youth from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey - 4 young people from bordering regions of each country in Batumi, Georgia, reported EM Azerbaijan Information Department.
The topics of the 2-days training are the followings: "What is confidence-building?"; "Different aspects of building confidence and learning to share again". Professional experts will conduct the trainings.
After the Batumi trainings the trainees will conduct different workshops on confidence building with local youth in borderline regions and shoot films-rolling on life circumstances at the regions that they represent.
Furthermore there will be presentation ceremony of the website "Peace-builders network" in 5 languages. The presentations will be held on the same day and at the same time in Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, in Armenia in Sevan Lake, in Georgia in the Black Sea and in Istanbul in Bosporus Strait. Shot films on peace building will be placed on the website. -06D--
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