Remembering Azerbaijani Peace Expert Avaz Hasonov

One Year ago, the Civil Society Institute’s and inmedio’s longtime Azerbaijani project partner Avaz Hasanov passed away without any warning. We miss him much. Avaz was one of the most important Azerbaijani peace building experts and his sudden death left a big gap not only for his friends and family but also the peace building […]

Multitrack Peace Mediation 2022/3

Now Open for registration – our 9th Multitrack Peace Mediation Course in cooperation with CSSP – Berlin Center for Integrative Mediation. The 15-day course focuses on mediation in development cooperation and peacebuilding contexts and covers the core content of a general mediation training. It will take place in Berlin from September 2022 to April 2023. […]

How to talk to people in bunkers

So many Ukrainans who live abroad or had to flee communicate with their family members or friends who have to stay in cellars, metro stations, bomb shelters and try to provide remote phychological support while their own heart is broken, too. On request of a network of Ukrainian expatriates, we drafted a short guidance for 'How to talk to people in bunkers' in Ukrainan, Russian and English. It is based on the recent experience of our Armenian collegue who found shelter in bunkers during the 44-day war in 2020, on psychological first aid concepts and our work with war-affected people in the Western Balkans, South Cuasus and Nepal. Hope it can be of a little help.