After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, among the other former member states of the Soviet Union, faced tremendous challenges related to the political and economic transformation. All states had to redesign their administrative and bureaucratic structure, and at the same time they were confronted with the collapse of their economic and social structures. In addition, foreign policy conflicts have arisen in the region, which mean a growing geopolitical importance to the region's future.
More than 25 years since the beginning of the transformation, a new generation of political leaders has emerged, who have made their first experiences especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR. This generation can hardly be compared with the still predominantly Soviet character of their parents' generation. At the same time, the massive political conflicts in the region also influence the thinking and fate of this generation of new Leaders.
As the young generation has proven to be the driving force in all transformation processes in the region, the project activity “Regional Dialogue of Young Leaders” is aimed at increasing political education and at encouraging young people to participate in political life of their respective countries. At the same time, all activities are focused on building dialogue in-between neighbours.
Mutual understanding between neighbouring countries and a prosperous future of nations strongly depends on the future generation of leaders, the assurance of human rights, and economic development based on the principles of social equality.
In the framework of our activities within the “Regional Dialogue of Young Leaders” we are working with young leaders, who are open for building bridges in the regional context, especially between the Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) and the Russian Federation. All the projects in the framework of this regional young leaders’ program are aimed at promoting of peaceful dialogue, at finding a consensus in conflict situations and at the exchange of social democratic policies, principles, and values.
Main objective is to strengthen political, scientific, and cultural exchange between the young people within the region and to create a sustainable network that will gather young progressive activists - politically and socially active people from EaP countries and Russia, who will enforce the peaceful transformation processes and will implement changes in both domestic and external policy of the respective countries.
The projects in frames of the “Regional Dialogue of Young Leaders” activities incorporate different formats of educational activities:
The most important projects that have been already successfully launched in the framework of the “Regional Dialogue of Young Leaders” are:
All the "Regional Dialogue of Young Leaders" projects are meant to be sustainable and are followed by impact monitoring activities, projects follow-ups and alumni meetings and other networking events.
The Regional Office "Dialogue Eastern Europe" encourages and supports alumni’s joint projects that are aimed on tightening cooperation and on piece/dialogue building between youth within or between youth coming from the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.
Andrusevych, Andriy; Andrusevych, Nataliya; Mishchuk, Zoriana
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Kolot, Anatolii; Herasymenko, Oksana; Yarmolyuk-Kröck, Kateryna
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