Estonia

The Carter Center worked with Estonia from 1994 through 1996 to prevent violence by involving people of the majority ethnic group, Estonians, in dialogues with Russian minorities.  

Our Work and Methods 

To prevent tensions between the Russian-speaking minority and the Estonian majority, our Conflict Resolution Program collaborated with partners to run a series of six dialogue workshops on ethnicity, nationalism, and political change. The workshops: 

• Provided a nonthreatening, unofficial space for parties to speak openly about their differences with neutral third-party facilitators. 
• Consisted of parliamentarians, ambassadors, academics, and other influential leaders from Russia and Estonia.