28/08/2025 | Writer: Kaos GL
The Critical Peace Network’s final declaration of the Amed Peace Workshop has been published.
The Critical Peace Network organized the Amed Peace Workshop on August 9 at the Diyarbakır Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The workshop brought together civil society organizations, professional chambers, rights groups, and initiatives.
Drawing on lessons learned from past experiences, participants discussed current peace issues, shared social testimonies, and set out principles and concrete demands for building an honorable, just, and lasting peace.
The workshop’s final declaration has also been published. The declaration emphasized that peace is not only the silencing of weapons but also depends on ensuring equal citizenship, truth and justice, cultural pluralism, and the protection of human dignity.
The principles of peace
The declaration outlined the framework of peace principles. Among these principles, ensuring that the needs of “women, children, young people, and LGBTI+ individuals are made visible and that equal representation is achieved” was highlighted under the heading of gender equality.
The main principles and themes emphasized during the workshop were:
- Equal and Honorable Peace
- Truth, Justice, and Reparation
- Participation and Transparency
- Gender Equality
- Pluralism, Belief and Cultural Rights
- Human Dignity
- Accessibility
- Memory Studies
- Spaces for Dialogue
“Limited participation opportunities for LGBTI+ people”
The declaration noted that the opportunities for participation in politics and social life remain limited for young people—especially young women, LGBTI+’s, persons with disabilities, and members of all communities and faith groups.
The Amed Peace Workshop stressed that peace is possible not only through the end of conflict but also through equal citizenship, justice, gender equality, cultural pluralism, memory work, disarmament, and socio-economic justice. Participants called on the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) and all relevant institutions to take these demands into account and invited civil society to actively join the process as a subject of peace.
Tags: human rights, military, trans, gey
