The article explores the challenges and transformations facing Armenian civil society in the aftermath of the revolution and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It centers on the question of whether, under current conditions, civil society has sufficient potential for promoting the public sphere toward social change, social justice and radicalization of democracy. Drawing on five group discussions...
After the Second World War, the second half of the 20th century can be considered the “golden age” of human rights. Referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, almost all states of the world added human rights provisions and normative acts to the content of their national Constitutions. In the second half of the 20th century, the idea and perspectives of human rights were...
The objective of this research is to collect and analyze post-revolutionary rhetoric (including homophobic) related to sexual and gender issues and discursive means available in Armenia, which are being used to target human rights defenders, activists working on women’s and LGBT issues, progressive civil society, aiming at shrinking their space of action, trying to turn this theme into a weapon...
“The Postprotest Context in Armenia: Divergent Pathways for Civic Actors” article, written by our colleagues Armine Ishkanian and Sona Manusyan, was published in the new report of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “After Protest: Pathways beyond Mass Mobilization”. In the chapter they discuss the pathways of civil society development in Armenia since 2018...
The research demonstrates how progressive civil society groups became the avant-garde of the Armenian revolution by acting as an inspiration and role model for larger social groups by popularizing various mechanisms and techniques of resistance. While some individuals from these groups became part of the interim government or local self-government bodies shortly after the revolution and were more...