How to talk about social conflicts? How to build a dialogue between conflicting parties? How to develop a research position in relation to any conflict? These are the questions, to name a few, facing not only researchers working on conflicts, but also practitioners dealing with conflict transformation and peacebuilding in conflict affected areas.
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Giorgi Kanashvili Executive Director at Caucasian House The original version of the article was published in German in “Security…
Archil Sikharulidze Researcher, Tbilisi State University On December 31st, 2015 President Putin signed Russia’s new national security strategy updating the…
Zviad Avaliani The Second Channel of Georgian Public Broadcaster This entry is available only in Russian.
The 24 November, 2015 two Turkish F-16 jest shoot down a Russian Su-24 bomber supposedly in the Turkish air space.
The 19th century is an age of political opportunism. The European pentarchy – a system of the five great powers balancing each other – was a Congress of Vienna direct consequence.
The idiom ‘Georgian experience’ is frequently mentioned in the context of the Georgia-Ukraine relationships. The Maidan government set an ambitious goal to bring Ukraine to the EU’s acquis communautaire standards.
As a transit country, Georgia has been experiencing high levels of smuggling from all sides for a long period of time, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Abkhazia however, smuggling has increasingly developed, more particularly in the conflict zone although statistics on the matter seem to be difficult to find.
The impunity of law enforcement officers and their service as protectors of the government and not the rule of law were two of the main reasons why mass protests transformed into a full-scale revolution in winter 2013-2014.
The sociological survey conducted by the “Democratic Initiative” Fund in December 2014 shows that in Ukraine the balance of trust/mistrust towards Ukrainian judges has deteriorated from -52% to -72% over the last year.
