1. LIBERAL YOUTH NETWORK OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Newsletter N2
LYNCJanuary-February 2012
LYNC is start-
ing to func-
tion locally
in South Cau-
casian coun-
tries...
From the beginning of
2012 LYNC team
started organizing local
seminars in Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Due to the action plan of
the network, this semi-
nars wi# eventua#y lead
to a joint seminar in
Georgia. These seminars
help the LYNC youth
team to expand the ideol-
Dear 'iends, To k e e p t h e e q u a l i t y o f ogy that they currently
As you already know, Liberal Youth responsibilities and opportunities for the explore. In a# three
member countries, all of them are
Ne t w o r k o f t h e S o u t h C a u c a s u s countries local events
currently functions in three countries of represented in the steering committee have had several phases.
the region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and e q u a l l y. E a c h c o u n t r y h a s t w o In this issue of the news-
Georgia). This time we would like to te# representatives. Moreover, each working letter we want to share
you shortly about the structure of the team has at least one member 'om each with you our experience
community. Thus, our intention is to country. on local actions.
invite you to a short trip along the The Manifesto and Constitution
challenging path of young liberal teams are currently working on the two
thinkers. basic documents of the community, which similar youth initiatives. The
wi# be the ideological base of LYNC fundraising team has the re-
On the way of its formation LYNC sponsibility to prepare a stra-
members, with the guidance of the activities. Organization team, with the tegic plan to co#ect necessary
facilitators of the initial seminars, contribution of other teams, has already resources for LYNC actions.
decided to distribute the workforce of organized several local seminars in the
And now we would like
LYNC between six working teams - member countries, and is preparing for a
to su+est you to go reading
Organization, Manifesto, Constitution, joint seminar. PR & Communication
about the local seminars.
PR & Communication, International team is organizing the linkage between
Relations and Fundraising. the members of the dislocated team of
LYNC and implementing marketing With Liberal Respect,
Each team has three members, tools for creation of a common image of
para#ely, one of them is the responsible the organization. International Relations LYNC Team
steering committee member of the LYNC. team is studying the world experience of
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2. LIBERAL YOUTH NETWORK OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
The Azerbaijani team of LYNC held his first local event.
On the 5th February, 2012, discussions on the topic
i n B a k u " Th e F r i e d r i c h co n ce r n i ng t h e e s s en t i a l
Naumann Foundation for principles of theor y of
Freedom" and “Liberal Youth liberalism by the head of
Network of South Caucasus” “Liberal Youth Network of
held the seminar-presentation South Caucasus” financial
on the topic “The essential department Yegana Hajiyeva,
principles of Liberalism” and head of organization
“Liberal Youth Network of department Asif Orujlu and the
South Caucasus”. member of the constitutional
There were about 50 young department Parvin Guliyev.
participants representing At the second part of the event
different youth organizations, there was a presentation about
institutions of civil societies, the project of “Liberal Youth
members of the youth Network of South Caucasus”.
organizations supporting the During the event youth asked
different political parties and many questions and actively
also journalists treated to join discussed points relating the
the event. But only 25 importance of LYNC, about its
participants were chosen to influence on the peace building
par t i c i pate i n t h e event processes in the region of South
(Representatives from Caucasus and the new
“Democrat Yo u t h movement of liberal youth. As a
Organization" , “Musavat Youth final result of the event, there
First Photo: Asif Orujlu (Or-
ganization team) and Yegane Haji-
Organization”, ADP Youth will be a selection of certain
yeva (Fundraising team) Committee, “Dalgha” Youth active youth among the
Second Photo: The local event Movement, “ Youth Club” participants for the next joint
particitpants with the organizers. Public Union, A zerbaijan seminar of LYNC that will be
Third Photo: Yegane Hajiyeva
with a future youth action member Student Youth Organizations' held in Georgia.
discussing the presentation of LYNC. Union (ASYOU) and others).
During the event there were
THE WORKING MOMENTS OF LYNC TEAMS IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
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3. LIBERAL YOUTH NETWORK OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
LYNC-ARMENIA HELD A LOCAL SEMINAR AND A DEBATES DAY
On 26th of January the young liberals of Yer- regimes that Armenia had gone through and about
evan had a chance to listen to Mrs Yasemin Pamuk’s the situation in the country nowadays.
lecture on the following subject - “What is Liberalism The final point of the program of the seminar
and How it Works”. On that day the Armenian team was the presentation of LYNC to the participants.
of Liberal Youth Network of the South Caucasus The Armenian members of LYNC were pleasantly
joined Friedrich Naumann Foundation in organizing surprised by the interest of the Armenian young ac-
the seminar at Aviatrans Hotel in Yerevan and even- tivists in this kind of youth initiative in our country.
tually we had a chance to present LYNC to the new- Despite the fact, that the seminar was planned to last
comers of the youth liberal world. three hours, in fact it took much more time to inter-
The first presentation of Mrs Pamuk gave to pret, discuss, summarize and make conclusions on
the participants of the seminar a chance to get more the chosen liberal subjects.
acquainted to the goals and activities of Friedrich
Naumann Foundation. It was presented what phe-
nomenas FNF stands for and what it rejects. These
liberal aspects of life, including freedom of choice,
human rights, etc. appeared to be quite interesting, as
they caused an active discussion in the conference
hall among the participants. The young activists had a
chance to express their point of view on the limits of
individual freedom on an example of a person, who
wished to appear in the society with a strange look.
And this was just one of many examples that gave an
opportunity to express youngsters’ individual opin-
ions which varied quite a lot. There was an attempt to
find the relation between education and progress, as
well as the differences between modernization and
westernization. Here also, with the facilitation of Mrs
Yasemin Pamuk, the participants talked about the
importance of education in the formation of the true
path of the progress.
Afterwards, the vice-president of Political
Legal Economic Research and Forecast Center
(PLERF) Vahagn Khachatryan switched the atten-
tion of the auditorium to the economic aspects of
liberalism. He talked about the differences of political
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4. LIBERAL YOUTH NETWORK OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
LYNC-GEORGIA ORGANIZED A SERIES OF LOCAL SEMINARS ON LIBERALISM.
"Liberal Youth Network of the South Caucasus" In the framework of week there were held three
(Georgia) in the framework of the Young Repub- seminars about liberalism. The first seminar was
licans, which is partner of Fridrih Naumann held on 29.02.2012 by Ivliane Khaindrava with
Foundation, Germany and in general the young topic of “Liberalism- liberal ideology and its
liberals of the international liberal youth organi-
competitors”. Second seminar was made by Pri-
zations in Georgia made the set of seminars on don Sakvarelidze about the "Human Rights in
the topic of liberalism. Liberal State” on 01.03.2012 and the last seminar
in this set was held on 02.03.2012 by Gigla Agu-
The lectures were attended by new members of lashvili - "Rule of law & Liberalism".
the Young Republicans, who are interested to ac-
quire more knowledge in terms of ideology, all The participants were introduced the informa-
representatives of LYNC from Georgia and the tion about LYNC and its importance in this re-
employee of Young Lawyers' Association, who is gion, had debates and discusses the most impor-
a member of the LYNC too. tant issues which related to the subject.
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