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By Marine Fidanyan

All the phases of the development of humankind have been accompanied by and reached nowadays with help of different types of art: rock carvings, oral folklore, songs, dances, ceramics...

By Gayane Tonikyan

After the post-electoral crisis in March, 2008 President Serj Sargsyan came up with the idea of forming a Public Chamber - an all-inclusive, representative council where all voices from the public will get a chance to be expressed. The suggestion has been welcome by some and heavily criticized by others. To get a snapshot of this diversity of opinions ICHD held a Town Hall Meeting in Yerevan, where about 120 participants - NGO representatives - discussed the possible scenarios of the Chamber formation outcomes, namely "Status Quo", when the society in large is not being represented, "Imitation", when the Chamber fails to carry out its major functions and turns instead into another bureaucratic agency and "The Voice of the Many", when the institution turns into a real forum for expression of various social perspectives.

By Areg Bagdasarian

Ever since the cease-fire of 1994, Nagorno-Karabakh has found itself no longer at war, but also continuing on without a lasting political peace settlement. Since 1994, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, the United States and France, have worked with the governments of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh to try to find a lasting peace solution that will lead to broader peace in the region and possible international recognition for NKR.