I recently came across a project by the Dutch organisation IKV. Through its projects this organisation tries to promote peace and understanding in conflict-areas in the Caucasus-region, the Balkans and Israel-Palestine, among others. They recently started a project in the Caucasus which involves four young Dutch professionals who will work for three months at human rights NGOs in Armenia (Helsinki Citizen's Assembly or HCA, Yerevan), Azerbaijan (HCA, Ganja and HCA, Baku) and Nagorno-Karabagh (Helsinki Initiative ’92, Stepanakert). After that young people from these NGOs will visit Holland. The aim of the project is to bring young people from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabagh in contact with each other to promote peace and understanding in the region.

The participants write about their experiences on IKV's own website, but the guy based in Stepanakert and the guy working in Baku write their own weblogs as well. Unfortunately, the blogs are only in Dutch. Also, the info about the project they are taking part in, is only in Dutch. I tried to open the English-language site of the IKV, but it didn't work. Even though the vast majority of the readers of this blog don't speak any Dutch, I decided to post about the sites anyway. For those few who do speak Dutch....;-)