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Policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the South Caucasus region

Policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the South Caucasus region. OXON HOATH, UK November 2011. Conflict environment. Red lines. Territories insist that recognition is a precondition for any other kind of discussion Refusal to acknowledge dignity of other

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Policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the South Caucasus region

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  1. Policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the South Caucasus region OXON HOATH, UK November 2011

  2. Conflict environment

  3. Red lines • Territories insist that recognition is a precondition for any other kind of discussion • Refusal to acknowledge dignity of other • Insistence on discourse on own terms • Unresolved issues an excuse for failure • Higher-level processes detached from society

  4. Development environment • Widespread economic collapse • Unemployment rate over 40% • 6% - 16% women in national assemblies • Gender pay gap of 50% - 60% • Highest selective abortion rates in world • Drastic labour migration • Ethnic conflict retard social development

  5. Advocacy environment • Reasonable sign-up to international conventions, agreements, etc • Eagerness to be seen to be adhering to Western-liberal agenda • No practical implementation of treaties • No understanding or buy in of issues • Tendency to power centralisation • No demand from population for governance

  6. Levels of action PARTNER Community activists COMMUNITY MEMBERS

  7. Levels of advocacy

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