ICHD Quarterly Newsletter N2

In order to make heard the voice of ordinary people from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as to engage the citizens in active discussion on this issue
of high public importance, two non-governmental institutions - the International Center for Human Development (ICHD, Armenia) and Youth for Development (YFD, Azerbaijan) organized Town Hall Meetings (THM) on the possible scenarios of peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh through 2008-2009.

This book is devoted to ICHD 10th anniversary and consolidats the decade long work of the Center.

The ICHD Quarterly Newsletter is published since Spring 2010. The Newsletter is intended to improve our communications with partners in civil society, government and development community in Armenia and abroad.

We hope that the Newsletter will help you stay informed about our activities and gain a better understanding of who we are and what we do.

ICHD published the Armenian version of the David Philips' book "Unsilencing the Past". The book is about the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC) and other Turks and Armenians who participated in Track Two activities.

This book authored by ICHD Executive Director Tevan Poghosyan has been published by the Crisis Management Initiative, as part of the project “Civil Society Participation in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) - A Regional Approach to Conflict Resolution”.

The relevant international conference was held in Yerevan.
Armenia on October 28 to 29, 2008, with the support of the EC Delegation, UK Department for International Development, Frledrich Ebert Foundation, the OSCE and the CoE offices in Yerevan.
The conference brought together representatives of various interested organizations from Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania as well as major European Institutions such as the EU, NATO, OSCE. CoE.
This publication includes the speeches made and papers presented at the conference.

In the framework of a project titled "Support to Migration Policy Development and Relevant Capacity Building in Armenia" the Center published information leaflets and booklets, which were aimed to provide relevant information to Armenian migrants.

The international conference was organized in Yerevan, Armenia
on November 18-19, 2007 by the ICHD in partnership with the Center for European Law and Integration with the support of DFID, Delegation of the European Commission to Armenia and OSCE.
The conference was attended by more than 20 foreign and 125 local
participants, representing government agencies and non-governmental
organizations, as well as a number of foreign missions in Armenia and
leading international institutions.
This publication includes the speeches made and papers presented at
the conference.

The book introduces the results of comprehensive statistical analysis of demand for tobacco products in Armenia, and tries to estimate the demand elasticity for these products.