Letters for Peace Publishes 54 Letters Between Youth in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Letters for Peace (LFP), a project at the intersection of creative writing and conflict transformation, announces the publication of its full catalogue of letters exchanged between Armenian and Azerbaijani youth. A total of 54 letters — available in English, Armenian and Azerbaijani — can now be accessed on the website www.lettersforpeace.org, and soon in a physical book published by Zangak Publishing House. 

Participants in Yerevan and Baku wrote letters after a series of two-week workshops — two in the summer of 2018 and four in the summer of 2019 — involving guest lecturers, site visits and exercises. Through writing and dialogue, LFP participants explored the possibilities for peacefully transforming the protracted conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. For most participants, LFP marked the first opportunity to have an extended dialogue with a citizen on the other side of the closed border.