ELABORATING VISION ON ARMENIA’S FUTURE:
THE COUNTRY OF MY DREAMS, HOW TO GET THERE
On December 5, 2024 the Caucasus Institute, in collaboration with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, successfully held the final event of the Promoting Future-Oriented Youth Dialogues project. This initiative was made possible through the support of the German Federal Foreign Office.The final conference brought together active youngsters from Syunik, Shirak, Yerevan and Nagorno-Karabakh. They presented their visions for Armenia’s future in such spheres as security, foreign policy, migration, economic development, and education.
During their presentations, the participants referred to the main impediments in the spheres, and possible ways to deal with them. Attended by representatives from the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, as well as academia and the expert community, the conference enabled a debate between the youth, policy-makers and experts over the most urgent issues in domestic and foreign policies of Armenia. Most importantly, the conference served as a platform for the youngsters to get across policy-makers and experts their visions for Armenia’s future. Our regional partners, the Goris Press Club from Syunik and the All Rights Foundation from Shirak, were actively involved in both the planning and execution of the event and were present among the attendees at the conference.