Elaborating Visions on Armenia’s Future

Second youth workshop held in Gyumri, Armenia

On September 29, the Caucasus Institute in partnership with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law implemented the second workshop under the auspices of the project ‘Promoting Future Oriented Youth Dialogues’, which is generously funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. The workshop was held in Gyumri, Shirak province and engaged participants from various communities of Shirak.

At the workshop, participants explored visions and future prospects for Shirak and Armenia, focusing on key areas such as security, foreign policy, migration, economic development, and education.

In the course of the workshop, the participants, who hailed from different communities in Shirak, mapped out obstacles and challenges impeding progress in each area and went on to identify the stakeholders who could be involved in promoting the desired outcomes in the future. Finally, the participants suggested points of action that the identified stakeholders should take in order to address the current challenges and to create opportunities for progress and change.

As the second in a series of project workshops, the visions shared during the workshop in Shirak notably differed from those expressed in the previous workshop in the region of Syunik, in the South of Armenia, highlighting the substantial differences between the two regions. Yet, the discussions also revealed some common perceptions, which will be further elaborated on in the final forum in Yerevan that is to take place at the end of the year.