AUTUMN 2012 LYNC LAUNCHES 2013 ACTION-PLAN ! DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH-CAUCASUS ! LYNC NEWSLETTER In November 2012 LYNC held its special meeting in Bakuriani, Georgia. Read in our newsletter why this meeting was N5 SPECIAL PAGE INSIDE: LYNC IS 1 YEAR OLD! and who where our guests on this meeting! LYNC is celebrating its 1 year old !!! 400 days of LYNC: Caucasian youth shaping the future. We are glad to share with you our report on the meeting held by LYNC team and newcomers in Bakuriani November 2012 with guidance of JULIs and Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The 16 th of November 2012 was the 4irst day of the seminar on “LYNC‐Caucasian Youth Shaping the Future”. The introduction session was very interesting because of the new format of the energizer. People were being divided into groups based on the questions that one of the trainers had prepared (elder or younger then 22, single or in a relationship, those who have been in Germany and those who younger then 22, single or in a relationship, those who have been in Germany and those who have not). New participants and old members of LYNC were sharing their thoughts about LYNC activities during that one year of the experience and future plans. Experienced members told the story of LYNC, how it was founded, new participants had the chance to share their 4irst impression about the community and how they learnt about it, which seminars they participated in. Hrach Ghambaryan took them for a short, guided tour through the LYNC history and later the LYNC team answered the questions of intrigued new participants. After that the participants had a session called in a very funny way WAWATALA, which combined in fact two different way WAWATALA, which combined in fact two different parts of the discussion (WWW and TALA, i.e. “What Went Well” and “To Take A Look At”). The participants were divided into three local groups and started working on the estimation of their own work and the job done on international level. The presentations of the local LYNC teams on this issue were needed for other participants to 4ind out what were the actual problems in other countries and what were the main achievements. Presentation from Georgia Georgian team mentioned the opportunity to represent LYNC in Gummersbach, as a noticeable achievement. Georgian participants shared their thoughts on the need to PR LYNC in the Caucasus, spread information among more young LIKE US: https://www.facebook.com/lync.youth
We are glad to share with you our report on the meeting held by LYNC
team and newcomers in Bakuriani November 2012 with guidance of JULIs
and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
The 16th o f November 2012 was the 4irst day of the seminar on “LYNC‐Caucasian
Youth Shaping the Future”. The introduction session was very interesting because of the new format of the energizer. People were being divided into groups based on the questions that one of the trainers had prepared (elder or younger then 22, single or in a relationship, those who have been in Germany and those who
younger then 22, single or in a relationship, those who have been in Germany and those who have not). New participants and old members of LYNC were sharing their thoughts about LYNC activities during that one year of the experience and future plans. Experienced members told the story of LYNC, how it was founded, new participants had the chance to share their 4irst impression about the community and how they learnt about it, which seminars they p a r t i c i p a t e d i n . H r a c h Ghambaryan took them for a short, guided tour through the LYNC history and later the LYNC team answered the questions of intrigued new participants.
After that the participants had a session called in a very funny w a y WAWATA L A , w h i c h combined in fact two different
way WAWATALA, which combined in fact two different parts of the discussion (WWW and TALA, i.e. “What Went Well” and “To Take A Look At”). The participants were divided into three local groups and started working on the estimation of their own work and the job done on international level. The presentations of the local LYNC teams on this issue were needed for other participants to 4ind out what were the actual problems in other countries and what w e r e t h e m a i n achievements.
Presentation from Georgia
Georgian team mentioned the opportunity to represent LYNC in Gummersbach, as a noticeable achievement. Georgian participants shared their thoughts on the need to PR LYNC in the Caucasus, spread information among more young
LYNC engaged those who are new to the liberal ideology. That might be done via seminars and other activities. LYNC should work more act ively with political parties and provide them with new working tools.
Presentation from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani team mentioned their experience of organizing regional seminars in Baku, Sumgait and other regions of A z e r b a i j a n . T h ey h a d a campaign called “Free Future” to suppor t t he po l i t i c a l prisoners. They have also had open discussion in Baku and on this “Mobilizing young people” meeting representatives from E u r o p e a n p a r l i a m e n t participated. Azerbaijani team t r i e s t o s e l e c t a c t i v e participants from local events and keep in continuous touch with them. Their partners in the regions were Musavat party, six other liberal organizations in Azerbaijan.
W e a k n e s s e s : L a c k o f responsibility. Some members did not respect the main working schedule of LYNC Azerbaijani team by organizing something different in the country. LYNC used to have skype cal ls formerly and currently the team feels the lack o f t h o s e c a l l s w h i l e c o m m u n i c a t i n g . T h e Azerbaijani and Armenian team have a separate challenge to think about concerning the political relation between two countries and LYNC has to think how to approach and react to this question. Possibly for avoiding lack of information on the local events and personal opinions about them, it might be good to appoint certain p e o p l e w h o c o u l d b e responsible for posting news from three countries in the Facebook group.
Azerbaijani participants had the idea to invite Georgian LYNC members in cooperation with FNF to their local events, which would keep the team in touch
more actively. Though this practice is not suitable to be realized between all three countries equally.
Presentation from Armenia
The Armenian team of LYNC mentioned that they meet continuously in Yerevan. And the fact that they are friends and keep in touch all the time makes it easier to organize something. The team just gets together and decides what to do and shares the responsibilities.
Armenian team has also a good recruiting mechanism. It has i nd iv i dua l p a r t ne r s and organizations, NGOs, think‐tans that it works with. Two months ago LYNC Arm organized an event with Woman Rights Center which included also a street action on gender issues.
The Armenian members of LYNC have opportunity to represent LYNC internationally on var ious youth events (Germany, USA, Moldova , Hungary etc.). But Armenian team has a problem to 4ind long‐term motivated people and keep them being motivated all the time.
Then followed the input from Yasemin Pamuk concerning cooperation between FNF and LYNC with the idea on the further action plan. Later two participants from each country were invited to share the news and last events of their countries to keep other participants up to date about the collective situation within the region. The discussion intrigued the participants with the opportunity to ask question concerning this events directly to those who come from the country of origin.
Mrs Pamuk referred to two m a j o r i s s u e s t h a t t h e participants mentioned:
‐ Relation with FNF altogether, being more independent from FNF;
‐ Activities of LYNC are not perceived by FNF. Local events meet no interest from the side o f t h e f o u n d a t i o n .
The central part that is combining the three circles is important for FNF. Somehow the bilateral parts also do. The local parts are ok, but not the centre of attention. FNF is willing to support locally, but more important is the Centre. If LYNC gives FNF the Centre, it can easily require support on t h e l o c a l l e v e l . H r a c h Ghambaryan’s remarks was the following: “If we do not have the circles, we will not have the overlapping part of the graphic.”
FNF suggested doing two local seminars in Azerbaijan and Armenia in February before a joint seminar in Georgia. LYNC can build the program of the seminar. The idea of Mrs Pamuk is to choose the same program for the local events. FNF would look forward to the list of poss ib l e top i c s o f th ree countries and the concept of the program. FNF is open for proposals. Besides that, FNF would also need the list of LYNCers of three countries, which would also include the names of those, who are ready to join the meetings at the appointed time sharp.
T h e 6 w o r k i n g g r o u p s introduced the results of their work, moderated by the JuLis members. With their help the groups concretized the main tasks that LYNC faces in their special sphere and gave their suggestions on what could be done next. The new participants of the seminar were also engaged into the working
groups, and this fact gave them an opportunity to decide which group would they want to continue working with. The experienced LYNC staff members and those who were engaged in the works of LYNC formerly, had
the chance to finally raise the main challenges that LYNC faced during one year. There were some issues mentioned that seemed to be quite tough for the members to approach because of the political situation and relations between
member countries, but this time the LYNC team was confident to discuss them tet-a-tet to prevent further possible conflicts during online cooperation.
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