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	Youth Mobilization: Meeting in Tbilisi an article by UNOY - United Network of Young Peacebuilders On June 6-13, a meeting on youth mobilization was held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The meeting was attended by 23 participants from Vanadzor (Armenia), Yerevan (Armenia), Stepanakert (Azerbaijan), Baku (Azerbaijan), Sanski Most (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Berlin (Germany) who were interested in peace-building. The meeting was organized by Vanadzor’s Peace Dialogue NGO and its German partner OWEN. The guests from Sanskiy Most, presented to the participants the experience of their organization, the Center for Peacebuilding (CIM), in the peace-building field. They described the history of the foundation, shared their own personal stories from during and after the war in their country and described what made them found the organization and participate in the meeting. click on photo to enlarge Furthermore, Peace Dialogue and the Center for Peacebuilding (CIM) also represented their strategy on youth mobilization, the actions that have been implemented, and their experiences. After that, the participants discussed what can be used from the presentation in daily life in their communities. Marina Grasse from OWEN observed, “This was my first such meeting and I was very happy to see that, despite the tension at the beginning, at the end of the meeting some participants thought about future joint co-operations and joint initiatives.” Peace Dialogue NGO director Edgar Khachatryan mentioned that the participants who are interested in Peace Dialogue’s Let’s see… Let’s choose… Let’s change… project and are eager to join together with their efforts will be invited to a second workshop. In that workshop, the participants will be introduced to the tools of the Theatre of Oppressed as a means to form critical thinking skills and motivate young people. You can find photos of the meeting here.		DISCUSSION Question(s) related to this article: Is there a renewed movement of solidarity by the new generation?,
This report was posted on August 14, 2012.