Our second capacity building workshop of 2023 took place in Yerevan, Armenia, where sixteen teachers from various regions of Armenia participated. Over three days, we saw a great development of ideas for the teaching material, a so-called toolkit, that will use multiperspective approaches to tackle sensitive topics like current and ongoing conflicts in classrooms. In the case of Armenia, we focused on the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh Liberation War. Since the escalation of the war in 2020, this conflict has become even more sensitive, emotional and difficult to deal with in schools.

Outside of the workshop, we had an interesting alternative walking tour of Yerevan and learned about different layers of the city’s history, the highlight of which was the Kond district. It was a hot day and we stopped for a rest on the shady territory of a former mosque in the neighbourhood - there is only one remaining active mosque in Yerevan. Thanks a lot to our wonderful local coordinators and experts Lusine Kharatyan and Shushanik Saratikyan as well as our facilitator Bojana Dujkovic-Blagojevic, who led interesting and provocative sessions.