THE PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT "MEN AND WOMEN. REAL STORIES"

Aysor.am
19.08.2009, 17:36

The presentation of book project "Men and Women. Real Stories" took
place in Yerevan. The book is the continuation of booklets "Woman and
Civil Society", "The Conversation of Women". The project is taking
place in Georgia, 3-5 reporters from countries of South Caucasus
participate in the project with their articles and photos.

The head of the project is Tamara Balavadze, the editor of the book
is Galina Petriashvili. The book presents the series of stories
about everyday problems, joy, life and routine of people belonging to
different nationalities of the Caucasian area. Audio tapes, providing
audio diaries, are attached to the book.

This genre was used in Georgia as a Georgian-Abkhazian peacekeeping
program. Later the representatives of known or unknown countries from
South Caucasus joint us, – said Tamara Balavadze.

>From 2002 to 2006 by the radio station South Caucasus the audio diary
"The real stories" was broadcast. The genre of audio diary originated
in BBC in 90-s. It presents people’s talks about themselves. The
stress is put on people who are not in the view of mass media.

The authors of the project hope that this project will help people to
listen to each other, because for the inner conflicts in the Caucasus,
people living in the same area, got so indifferent.

"The mission of this book is to make people trust each other. This
can be one of the means to lead peaceful conversations through
intercultural communication. To ensure the cooperation between people
of South Caucasus who suffered war"-says the booklet.