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  • Armenian, Azerbaijani Experts Offer Recommendations For Confidence B

    ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI EXPERTS OFFER RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT REGION

    09:00 16.07.13

    After a joint discussion held on June 15-18 in Tbilisi within the
    framework of the "Breaking the Impasse" series, a group of Azerbaijani
    and Armenian experts from the region of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    produced a document that includes recommendations for international
    organizations and institutions, local governments, donors, and civil
    society. The group believes that to restore trust between the sides
    at this point, the following measures are necessary:

    - To begin a regular monitoring and establish a database of all
    incidents in the zone of armed confrontation that harm civilians;
    to support the inclusion of civil society in the process of monitoring;

    - To begin a regular monitoring of speeches and statements by
    officials and mass media of the conflicting sides in order to detect
    manifestations of xenophobia, hate speech and the language of violence;
    to support the development and implementation of international
    mechanisms to minimize these manifestations;

    - To proceed with the development of specific measures to prevent
    casualties among civilians and military personnel along the entire
    contact line of the armed forces; to carry out a regular monitoring
    and analysis of such incidents;

    - To start the development of measures to strengthen public control
    over compliance with the ceasefire regime;

    - To create a set of legal norms and ethical principles preventing
    violence and excluding any threat of the use of force from rhetoric;

    - To develop mechanisms of revision and reconstruction of the system
    of teaching social science and humanities courses to eliminate the
    practice of the formation and spread of the enemy image in the field
    of education; to monitor textbooks in the context of this problem;

    - To activate existing dialogue platforms and to create new ones to
    strengthen contacts between different social groups involved in the
    conflict (youth, athletes, students, etc.);

    - To activate existing dialogue spaces and to create new ones to
    strengthen contacts between leaders who influence public opinion
    (analysts, artists, journalists, politicians, etc.);

    - To strengthen contacts between environmental organizations to
    address the existing problems in the region of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict; to develop and implement mechanisms of effective control by,
    and involvement of, environmental NGO's in the process of minimizing
    ecological risks;

    - To intensify contacts and meetings between people directly affected
    by the conflict (families of victims, missing persons, etc.) At a time
    in which the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process is in need of stimulation,
    and in particular in need of a greater role of civil society in
    confidence building between the parties, this group of experts from
    the region suggests actively promoting the above-mentioned ways and
    methods to foster trust and cooperation between the parties.

    This document was produced within the framework of the project
    implemented with the organizational support of the Center for
    Peacemaking Practice of the School for Conflict Analysis and
    Resolution of George Mason University and the Imagine Center for
    Conflict Transformation. The project is supported by the UK Foreign
    and Commonwealth Office.

    Armenian News - Tert.am

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