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1 Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus A NEW SOUTH-CAUCASIAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! The young team of Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus is excited to present its first newsletter which shares with you the story of initiation of LYNC from the very beginning. Dear Friends, If you are reading this newsletter, then we have discovered you on our adventurous way towards formation of a new youth liberal organization and highly value your support, readership, friendship and other links with us. We have been looking through the experience of exceptional and quite successful liberal organizations and individuals, including you, while trying to create our own rules and principles. This is why we decided to share our first steps, ambitions, interests and plans with those who not only talk, but also greatly act, and are the leaders in the sphere of fighting for freedom and human rights. Herewith... We are excited to present you the first newsletter of Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus, i.e. LYNC ! This newsletter aims to present the newly formed youth organization, which has adopted liberal ideology and concepts. Despite the regional political and economic unstable situation we, liberal youth from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia decided together to establish LYNC to spread the idea of liberalism in South Caucasus not just as a theory but also as a practical social and political tool. As socially active, quite well educated, professional youth with skills and deep knowledge of liberalism and liberal values, we mobilized our power for activating regional cooperation based on individual freedom, tolerance and equal rights. We strongly hope that our initiative will greatly contribute to the peace making process, dialogue of civilizations, will have a great impact on free market development, political and social freedom establishment. On this stage we aim to prepare a solid base for our concrete ideas to become a reality by October of the next year as a juridically functioning organization. By that time we plan to have proceed a series of local seminars which will lead to a regional seminar in Georgia in February 2012. After the joint seminar we are planning to finalize our basic documents as constitution and manifest, which will be discussed and voted during the LYNC Congress in September 2012 in Georgia. We will be very glad to share our ideas and experience with increasing amount of newly engaged, interested readers and potential members of LYNC. Let’s get it started! With Respect, LYNC Team. LYNC N 1 October - december 2011 NEWSLETTER

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We are glad to present you the brand new youth organization launched in the region of South Caucasus. We are called Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus. Other information is inside the newsletter. More newsletters upcoming...

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Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus

A NEW SOUTH-CAUCASIAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN LAUNCHED!The young team of Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus is excited to present its first newsletter which

shares with you the story of initiation of LYNC from the very beginning.

Dear Friends,

If you are reading this newsletter, then we have discovered y o u o n o u r adventurous way towards formation of

a new youth liberal organization and highly value your support, readership, friendship and other links with us. We have been looking through the experience of exceptional and quite successful liberal organizations and individuals, including you, while trying to create our own rules and principles. This is why we decided to share our first steps, ambitions, interests and plans with those who not only talk, but also greatly act, and are the leaders in the sphere of fighting for freedom and human rights. !Herewith...

We are excited to present you the first newsletter of Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus, i.e. LYNC !

This newsletter aims to present the newly formed youth organization, which has adopted liberal ideology and concepts. Despite the regional political and economic unstable situation we, liberal youth from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia decided together to establish LYNC to spread the idea of liberalism in South Caucasus not just as a theory but also as a practical social and political tool.

As socially active, quite well educated, professional youth with skills and deep knowledge of liberalism and liberal values, we ! mobilized our power for activating regional cooperation based on individual freedom, tolerance and equal rights. !

We strongly hope that our initiative will greatly contribute to the peace making process, dialogue of civilizations, will have a great impact on free market development, political and social freedom establishment.

On this stage we aim to prepare a solid base for our concrete ideas to become a reality by October of the next year as a juridically functioning organization. By that time we plan to have proceed a series of local seminars which will lead to a regional seminar in Georgia in February 2012. After the joint seminar we are planning to finalize our basic documents as constitution and manifest, which will be discussed and voted during the LYNC Congress in September 2012 in Georgia.

We will be very glad to share our ideas and experience with increasing amount of ! newly engaged, interested readers and potential members of LYNC.

Let’s get it started!

With Respect,LYNC Team.

LYNC N 1October -

december 2011NEWSLETTER

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Starting the LYNC

From 9th to 16th of October once again in the region of South Caucasus there was an attempt to trigger the youth interest in regional cooperation and tolerance. 6 trainers invited from Germany, whose purpose was to lead a group of young active representatives f rom South Caucasian countr ies (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) to creation of regional youth organization, which was initially called LYNC (Liberal Youth Network of South Caucasus). The seminar had two stages: on the first stage, from 9th to 11th October, two pre-seminars were organized paralelly in Armenia (Tsahkadzor) with trainers Maximilian Klefenz , Johannes Wolf and Sabine Weizel and in Azerbaijan (Novxani) with Frederik Ferié, Philip Hansen and Anna Catharina Müller, during which the groups of participants tried to draw out a draft overview of the future organization, i ts purpose, structure, action-plan, etc. On the second stage more than 25 participants were chosen from two groups, who met in Georgia (Bakuriani) on the 12th of October and continued working on the common idea till 16th of October. During the second stage the trainers helped the youth from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia understand the possibilities that so called umbrella organization LYNC can give, the problems it can face as a dislocated working team. In this aspect it was quite useful to look through the experiences of other countries and regions, which also attempted to create regional umbrella organizations, but eventually failed. In this context for the participants it was quite useful to have a day of presentations of di!erent tools of working in a team by Frederik Ferié.

On the first stage of the seminar, by the end of each day, two groups in Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged video

greetings and shared the summarized results of the day with each other. This helped to start immediate cooperation, when they met in Bakuriani. And already in Bakuriani the future LYNC working group members had their first voting on the steering committee formulation issues and particular points of the LYNC future action plan. By the end of the seminar the LYNC already had the following departments: fundraising, constitution, manifesto, organization, public relations and international relations. Each department now has its responsible member in the steering committee, which has already designed a common action plan with timeline for the upcoming year.

In December LYNC team had a four-days informal meeting in Tbilisi to review what had already been done, how e!ectively they worked, exchanged internal feedbacks and tried to clarify and i m p l e m e n t n e w m e t h o d s a n d technologies for e!ective communication and cooperation.

The South-Caucasian youth now works towards organizational a!airs of local seminars, after which the LYNC team plans to have a joint seminar in Georgia again at the beginning of 2012.

Thinking

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WORKING

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LYNC Teams• Organization

• PR & Communication

• Constitution

• Manifesto

• Fundraising

• International Relations

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