Azerbaijan Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) and the Armenian Research Center "Region" created the site "Public dialogue» (http://www.publicdialogues.info), the official presentation of which will be held in mid-January Yerevan and Baku.
This is the first Azerbaijani-Armenian website, created by years of cooperation between the two NGOs - IPD and Research Center "Region", headed by Leila Yunus and Laura Baghdasaryan.
The site has been operating since September. As reported by IMD director Leila Yunus, the web-based resource is a platform for online discussions and press conferences for journalists, experts, politicians, civil society activists, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Since 2005, the NGO of the two countries have implemented a collaborative project. The main idea is that the representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani societies receive first-hand information.
Initially, the project was to conduct a so-called "parallel interviews." Thus, journalists from Armenia and Azerbaijan asked the same questions one on certain topics - experts, politicians, civil society activists in their countries.
The themes of these interviews were diverse and concerned issues of human rights, justice, labor, cinema, tourism and so on. Of course, the central place occupied Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which was illuminated from different perspectives - through the views of veterans and disabled people, politicians and students.
Then the interview published in the Azerbaijani and Armenian press.
Subsequently been held online conference, during which journalists from Armenia and Azerbaijan had the opportunity to ask questions directly to politicians from neighboring - Georgia, Turkey, Russia, as well as representatives of international organizations.
All of these materials from previous years are included in the resource base of the site.
In addition, with the creation of the site the opportunity to post videos has appeared.
Thus, the Azerbaijani side produced two video's relevance to our problems - the violation of the freedom of assembly, in particular, the dispersal of peaceful demonstrations and the facts of mass forced evictions of people from the demolished houses on the pretext of improvement.
In addition, the site will include information on other joint projects between the two countries NGOs. It is also planned to open the news section.
Another innovation of the site will host the materials on the history of the two countries.
The site has a link to the social network Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPublicDialogues%3Fref%3Dhl).
The project is supported by the UK Foreign Office. -06B-
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