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Georgia: An Azeri Wedding By Onnik Krikorian Last weekend saw an unprecedented event occur in the South Caucasus. Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines blogger Arzu Geybullayeva, an Azerbaijani citizen based in Istanbul, Turkey, and Baku, Azerbaijan, worked with Global Voices Online’s Caucasus Editor Onnik Krikorian, a British citizen partly of Armenian descent based in Yerevan, Armenia, to produce various reports on an ethnic Azeri village situated close to Telavi, Georgia. |
Trip to Georgia By Arzu Geybullayeva Last week, I was in Telavi/Georgia at a four- day retreat for an event called Model Caucasus Parliament (MCP). […] There was another highlight of the trip, and that was a visit to a village- Karajala- 15 minutes outside of Telavi, populated by ethnic Azerbaijanis. |
An unexpected visit to an Azeri village wedding By Onnik Krikorian It was a dream come true. Despite knowing each other for several months online, the chances of meeting regional analyst and superstar blogger Arzu Geybullayeva seemed remote at best and unlikely at worst. As Arzu is based in Istanbul, Turkey, and Baku, Azerbaijan, it’s not easy for someone based in Armenia with an Armenian surname to meet even virtual friends from the country’s eastern neighbour in the South Caucasus. |
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Georgia: Un matrimonio azerí Traducido por Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe La semana pasada ocurrió un hecho sin precedentes en el sur del Cáucaso. Arzu Geybullayeva, blogger de Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines, ciudadana azerbaiyana radicada en Estambul, Turquía y en Bakú, Azerbaiyán, trabajó con Onnik Krikorian, editor para el Cáucaso de Global Voices Online, ciudadano británico de ascendencia armenia y radicado en Ereván, Armenia, para producir diversos reportajes sobre una aldea de etnia azerí ubicada cerca de Telavi, un centro regional en Georgia. |
喬治亞：亞塞拜然村婚禮 譯者 Leonard 上星期在南高加索地區出現史無前例的情況，Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines部落格 的Arzu Geybullayeva出身亞塞拜然，現居於土耳其伊斯坦堡與亞塞拜然巴庫；全球之聲高加索地區編輯Onnik Krikorian為具亞美尼亞血統的英國國民，現居於亞美尼亞雅里溫，兩人前往喬治亞Telavi附近的亞塞拜然裔村落，合作製作多篇報導。 |
জর্জিয়া: একটি আজেরী বিয়ে অনুবাদ করেছেন রেজওয়ান দক্ষিণ ককেশাসে গত সপ্তাহে একটা অভূতপূর্ব ঘটনা ঘটেছে। তুরস্কের ইস্তাম্বুলে বসবাসরত এক আজারবাইজানী নাগরিক ফ্লাইং কার্পেট এন্ড ব্রোকেন পাইপলাইন্স ব্লগের ব্লগার আরজু গেবুলায়েভা কাজ করেছেন আজারবাইজানের বাকুতে অবস্থিত গ্লোবাল ভয়েসেস অনলাইনের ককেশাস সম্পাদক অনিক ক্রিকোরিয়ানের সাথে যিনি আংশিক আর্মেনিয়ার বংশভূত একজন ব্রিটিশ নাগরিক। আর তারা জর্জিয়ার তেলাভির কাছে অবস্থিত ঐতিহ্যবাহী আজেরী গ্রাম নিয়ে বিভিন্ন ধরনের রিপোর্ট করেছেন। |
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Research Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies By Ivan Sigal Throughout history, war has affected media, with conflict often creating an information void. In the 21st century, media has begun to affect war more than ever before. Digital media technologies – particularly participatory, networked tools – have increased communication and information dissemination in conflict settings, affecting all sides and involving new producers of news coverage. These new tools can be used to foment violence or to foster peace, and it is possible to build communication systems that encourage dialogue and nonviolent political solutions. The international media development community must adapt its conflict-zone programs to fit a new media environment, designing projects that encompass digital media applications that encourage more open communities and states, provide venues for dialogue, and reduce control of information. Conferences Social Media for Social Change Tbilisi, Georgia, 9-10 April 2010 Leaders from the world of technology, politics, government, journalism, blogging, and social activism will share how they’re using social media to enhance civic engagement, improve transparency in the media, and foster open governance. The two-day conference will offer morning keynotes, afternoon breakout sessions and a panel discussion at the end of each day. |
Interviews Caucasus: An interview with Micael Bogar By Onnik Krikorian With three frozen conflicts and many ethnic fault lines, peace and stability in the South Caucasus often seems unreachable. After living and working in the the region for many years, Micael Bogar is now Projects Manager at the American University’s Center for Social Media and speaks to Global Voices Online about the potential for new media tools to circumvent divisions and bring estranged neighbors together. Armenia-Azerbaijan: An interview with Elizabeth Métraux By Onnik Krikorian DOTCOM, a program implemented by PH International and sponsored by the US Department of State, is an online initiative using blogs and video to bring American, Armenian and Azerbaijani teenagers together to work on creating socially conscious media. With the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh understandably creating some problems, especially when ten teenagers from each of the two countries met up with their American counterparts in the U.S. last month, Program Director Elizabeth Métraux speaks candidly about some of the challenges experienced so far as well as some of the program’s successes. |
Research Where Hostile Governments Meet Public Media By Micael Bogar How can public media develop in regions where governments are hostile to press freedoms? A look at emerging projects in the South Caucasus—a region of independent former Soviet countries linked both geographically and historically—offers some clues. We have created a list of five notable public media projects: Institute for Reporter’s Freedom and Safety, Caucasus Center of Peacemaking Initiatives, Internews, the South Caucasus blogosphere and lastly everyone’s favorite Facebook. Articles Social media and conflict resolution in the South Caucasus By Onnik Krikorian In the 15 years since the May 1994 ceasefire agreement put the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh on hold, various peace proposals have faltered. But if Armenia’s first president, Levon Ter-Petrossian, was forced to resign in 1998 by nationalist hardliners in his government opposed to a compromise settlement, the main obstacle in recent years has been public opinion. |
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