policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the south caucasus region

Policy and advocacy strategies for peacebuilding in the South

Caucasus region

OXON HOATH, UK

November 2011

Conflict environment

Red lines

• Territories insist that recognition is a precondition for any other kind of discussion

• Refusal to acknowledge dignity of other • Insistence on discourse on own terms• Unresolved issues an excuse for failure• Higher-level processes detached from

society

Development environment

• Widespread economic collapse

• Unemployment rate over 40%

• 6% - 16% women in national assemblies

• Gender pay gap of 50% - 60%

• Highest selective abortion rates in world

• Drastic labour migration

• Ethnic conflict retard social development

Advocacy environment

• Reasonable sign-up to international conventions, agreements, etc

• Eagerness to be seen to be adhering to Western-liberal agenda

• No practical implementation of treaties• No understanding or buy in of issues• Tendency to power centralisation• No demand from population for

governance

Levels of action

PARTNER

Community activists

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Levels of advocacy

Local level

National level

International level

Create demand for good governance

Contribute to enabling environment for activists

Make the agenda hang together (multiply further)