Artsrun Pivazyan, who is currently a fellow for the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme as a researcher at Boğaziçi University, Peace Education, Application and Research Center will be holding a workshop that offers participants a selection of practical, interactive tools useful in addressing and transforming conflicts, particularly inter-group conflicts involving contradicting narratives.
Aylin Vartanyan from Boğraziçi University, Peace Education, Application and Research Center will co-facilitate the workshop and contribute her extensive experience of using expressive arts for conflict transformation. Awareness about the dynamics of conflicts is best gained in experiential and interactive learning spaces.
With this workshop Artsrun Pivazyan, aims to introduce to students, educators, NGO workers and the wider audience a facilitation toolbox that helps advance contact, reflection and discussion among groups through games and creative art exercises. With an extensive background in Armenian-Azerbaijani civil society dialogue processes, Artsrun brings practical experience of working with protracted ongoing conflicts.
The workshop will take place at Havak Hall, on 17th of May, Wednesday, 2017 at 19:00. (GMT+03).
Artsrun Pivazyan holds a BA degree in International Relations from European Regional Educational Academy in Yerevan. Currently he studies Peace Studies: International Cooperation, Human Rights and Policy of European Union at the University of Rome 3. Artsrun has participated in several volunteering projects, focusing on civil education, democracy, human rights and peacebuilding. He has done European Voluntary Service at Cultural Association for Theatre and Origami (A.C.T.O.R.) in Bucharest, Romania. He has also conducted a fellowship at Rondine Citadella della Pace in Italy.
Artsrun Pivazyan is currently a fellow at the Peace Education, Research and Application Center of Bogazici University as part of the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme established by the Hrant Dink Foundation. His current research is focused on the role of memory in peacebuilding activities.
The event will be held in English only and a format of an interactive conversation so everybody is more than welcome to bring their questions for the Q&A session.
The Hrant Dink Foundation has established the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme in 2014 with a view to promote cross-border affiliation and cooperation in areas where further exchange of expertise and lasting cooperation is much needed, such as academia, civil society, media, culture and arts, language-learning and law. 15 fellows from Armenia and Turkey are now living and following a special program at a host organisation in the neighbouring country.
This activity takes place within the framework of the programme
Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process: Stage II
funded by the European Union.
