The participants at the conference for peace in the Caucasus, inspired by the positive experience of coexistence of the students of Rondine Cittadella della Pace and on the basis of the document developed by them, are committed to emphasizing their common historical and cultural roots, strengthening the values and features they have in common in full respect of the fundamental rights of man and the rights of peoples.

Peace is the common good which all the peoples of the Caucasus are longing for. It is attainable through cooperation, respect for the different identities and cultural exchanges.

For the realization of this goal we indicate the following points, which we consider essential in order to overcome conflicts:

1. Support opinion movements in the Caucasus and worldwide that will induce governments to establish a permanent dialogue table including all the parties involved in the conflict, dedicated to the solution of political, financial and social disputes.
2. Demand all the parties to the conflicts in the region to commit themselves to peaceful conflict resolution at the dialogue table.
3. Create the conditions where the dialogue table is the ideal place to bring together all the efforts to pursue human, cultural, economic and political growth of the region with the prospect of a gradual and coordinated disarmament of the Caucasus.
4. Re-establish the social status and guarantee the rights of all the people who have suffered because of the conflicts in the region, including the right to return of all those who were forced to abandon their homes and guaranteeing the security of all on the basis of dialogue and any other peaceful measure.
5. Create the conditions where cooperation among companies throughout the Caucasus region is developed as the first step towards the construction of a common economic space and of a freetrade area in order to promote economic integration and the free movement of people, capital, goods and services, with full respect for the environment.
6. Support the investment of international companies, and in particular of european ones, in the economy of the whole region of the Caucasus and promote a plan of financial incentives to encourage the development of local entrepreneurial capacities and the socio-economic growth of the region.
7. Encourage joint scientific research, cultural cooperation and education in order to foster dialogue and tolerance, both being necessary to overcome the difficulties and prejudices stemming from the poor knowledge of each other.
8. Promote joint educational and intercultural projects that include national and international multi-language and summer schools with shared curricula, especially created to foster the knowledge of each other, as well as to accept and protect cultural and linguistic diversity.
9. Develop university projects which include student and faculty exchange programmes between regional and international universities as well as promoting university courses on peace studies and conflict resolution.
10. Create and financially support pluralist, multilingual, multicultural and cross-border mass media.
11. Foster a sense of union through organizing joint sport events on the model of the mediterranean games.
12. Promote cultural initiatives – such as the “caucasian days” - which may include movies, theatre, folklore and art festivals and literary, ethnographical, archaeological events to preserve and advance both the common cultural heritage and the specific features of each ethnic group.
13. Translate the experience of the Rondine students into a network of ngos in the Caucasus to promote a youth forum of all the peoples of the region, to create a multilingual web site and to facilitate the exchange of information on the region.
14. Contribute to the development of inter-religious dialogue as a way to promote peace in the name of universal friendship.

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