The Association of Experts for Security and Global Affairs (Romania) and its partners, Promo-LEX Association (Moldova), European Initiative Liberal Academy Tbilisi (Georgia) and Ukrainian Institute for International Politics (Ukraine), organised on May 13, 2022, the first meeting of the experts involved in the activities dedicated to the implementation of the conflict analysis methodology in the Black Sea region, as well as the strengthening and deepening of cooperation between the project partners. The activity is part of the “The unresolved conflicts from Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. A common EaP and EU vision for reconciliation and confidence-building across the region” project*.

Thus, the first online workshop activities dedicated to developing the toolkit focused on four levels of work – PERSPECTIVES AND LEVELS OF THE CONFLICT ANALYSIS, ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK / CONTEXT ANALYSIS, CONFLICT ANALYSIS TOOLS and PRINCIPLES FOR CONFLICT ANALYSIS.

At the same time, we were glad that from the discussions and debates, the project team managed to develop the main areas of analysis and offer the prospects of deepening cooperation for the establishment of a Virtual Laboratory for Conflict Analysis.

We remain firmly engaged in developing this type of methodology, especially since the state of regional and continental security requires such approaches in research and explanation of conflicts.

*The project benefits from support through the EaP Civil Society Forum Re-granting Scheme (FSTP)to Members and is funded by the European Union as part of its support to civil society in the region. Within its Re-granting Scheme, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) supports projects of its members that contribute to achieving the mission and objectives of the Forum. 

Grants are available for CSOs from the Eastern Partnership and EU countries. Key areas of support are democracy and human rights, economic integration, environment and energy, contacts between people, social and labour policies.