Our mission

To build journalistic connections across the Caucasus, share information and form collaborations across the borders and divides of the Caucasus

Our values

Human rights, freedom of expression, local empowerment, tolerance

What we do

• Establish a sustainable network of over 50 journalists from South and North Caucasus
• Develop their skills especially in reporting conflict and national minorities
• Increase the knowledge of the Caucasus journalists of their own region
• Provide the readers of the respective societies with accurate and balanced reporting
• Build dialogue and cross-border cooperation

CCJN works through over 50 journalists representing a group of newspapers which are independent, reliable and professional and will want to become a “family” of associated newspapers spanning the North and South Caucasus. These journalists are provided with regular training opportunities in different countries and regions of the Caucasus. The trainings concentrate on issues of conflict resolution as well as reporting national minorities.

Another notable component of CCJN project, journalistic missions, gives media professionals a chance to report an important event or phenomenon in the Caucasus, working together in an international group. Working around a common goal – balanced reporting of an important issue – brings journalists representing countries in conflict closer together.

The breakaway territories of the Caucasus, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorny Karabakh, are all represented in CCJN project. Journalists from these territories meet regularly with each other as well as with journalists from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. During conflict resolution trainings, the journalists analyze and discuss conflicts, contributing to new ideas and approaches to conflicts, often surrounded by hate speech and war propaganda. Joint articles written by Armenian and Azerbaijani, Georgian and Abhaz journalists bring pluralism of thoughts and opinions to the pages of local newspapers.

Website, the heart of the CJNN, brings journalists together virtually. In addition to the collaborative articles, the journalists will be able to read each other’s work in their own newspapers, translated to Russian. Training and mission reports will be published in the website, giving the journalists a picture of what is going on, and the biographies of participating journalists give the outside world a glance of journalists working for CCJN.