In Armenia when pursuing the rule of law, social justice and active civic
participation we have oftentimes faced a problem: the citizen does not realize
how important their role is in the state’s ongoing political and civic
processes. The general impression is that people are mostly discouraged,
disappointed and are waiting to rely on some power that one day will, as a
gesture of goodwill, bring about positive changes in their lives. Apparently,
many occurrences particularly among young people who have a more acute
sense of what freedom and independence are in terms of their lives, these
should have caused resistance and intolerance, however in the eyes of many,
such occurrences of injustice and violence, lawlessness and corruption within
the atmosphere of fear and impunity have become all too common.
What are the roots of such a manifestation and what social, economic and
political processes have had an impact on the formation of this indifferent
and fatalistic approach? We tried to r
