Citizens’ Assembly (Yd) and the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa) Vanadzor / Armenia office are organizing summer schools for the young attendants from Turkey and Armenia to support the effort of trust-building and process of reconciliation between Armenian and Turkish societies. 2017 summer school will take place between 10th and 16th of July in Istanbul. Academicians, educators, writers, journalists, researchers and filmmakers from Turkey and Armenia will make thematic presentations every day in the framework of summer school program that has been prepared regarding teachers, who are one of the most influential actors in social transformation processes, can contribute the building and strengthening of communication channels between two countries. The program will also include workshops, roundtable discussions, movie sessions and group workshops on the purpose of strengthening the tools of participants for conflict resolution.
Some titles of seminars and workshops from the program include:
- Teacher’s ability of creating change as a guide
- Re-meeting in the school environment and transforming the conflict to awareness
- Representation of Turks and Armenians in Ottoman Armenian Literature
- Turks in Armenian Literature
- Ethnic and religious discrimination
- Traces of Armenian Culture in Anatolia
- Past, confrontation, reconciliation and future
- Reading the media and effective usage of media
- The practices of Democratic-Participatory Classroom Management
- Peace, When?: What have we done under the Armenia-Turkey Normalization Process Program?
Sixteen and eighteen young educators from Turkey and Armenia respectively have been invited to the summer school. The announcement of summer school was made with an open call. The half of participants will be classroom teachers and other teachers from various branches. The other half will be teacher candidates who study in faculty of education.
