"Regional Security and Role of Youth in Peace Building: A Year After: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future" was organized in Yerevan on November 2-5, 2004, by the initiative of Armenian Atlantic Association (AAA) and it's youth branch - AYAA and the assistance of NATO Office of Information and Press designed to be the reasonable continuation of the last-year initiative due to the keen necessity and significance of this type of gatherings in the region.

The conference was another major manifestation of the growing intention to overcome political boundaries on the way towards economic re-integration and development of the region. It gave impetus for more profound understanding in each country the benefits of development of true public policy research institutions within the each country and throughout the region. The structure of the conference was designed in such a manner as to delineate and define the potential role of the youth in the region, abilities to initiate joint-projects and conduct public policy research in security field. It was a four-day-workshop - meeting to elaborate and prepare project proposals - with NATO official invited to support young policy-makers to draw up project proposals.

Young representatives of national YATAs from Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia being devoted to the strategies and methodology of conducting in-depth research on public policy/security relevant issues as well as networking were invited to partake in the workshop.