Speaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey e-book by Leyla Neyzi and Hranush Kharatyan-Araqelyan was released.
The project “Adult Education and Oral History: Contributing to Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation” was launched in August 2009 by the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (dvv international) in partnership with Anadolu Kültür and Armenian Centre for Ethnological Studies “Hazarashen”, with the financial support of the German Foreign Office. The main objective of the project was to contribute to the reconciliation process in this region by initiating an open dialogue through professional oral history research.
This project is an extension of the efforts of dvv international in one of its main spheres of work – adult education – in dealing with the past and sensitive issues in recent history. For more than fifteen years, dvv international has been engaged in contemporary witness and reconciliation work, as well as oral history as a means to deal with the recent past. This is how the dvv international History Network, which includes a number of successful projects in various regions, was created.
In Armenia, an Armenian-Turkish workshop was held for the first time on the topic of Oral History titled History and Identity – Building Bridges for Dialogue and Understanding in October 2008. Civil society representatives, historians, anthropologists and oral historians from both countries participated in the workshop. The concept for the current project was developed at that meeting and we are now pleased to share one of its results.-l
