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Why Look West: Georgian Foreign Policy in Retrospect

While many empires and regional powers attempted to impose their rule over this tiny Caucasus country, Georgia always maintained its own, distinctively unique approach to its place in the regional and global political arena. Th...

by Tornike Zurabashvili

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Building peace in Georgia, step-by-step: The importance of youth participation

Successful peacebuilding depends on involving young people. Governments, international organisations and NGOs often focus on how young people are endangered by armed conflict and are at risk of taking up arms in future violence...

by Nicholas Barker

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The tools of peacebuilding: Using the media to build peace in Georgia

In an earlier article, I wrote about the importance of youth participation in peacebuilding. The media is another vital component of successfully building a durable, just peace after conflict. Like any tool, the media can be us...

by Nicholas Barker

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Georgian LGBT organisation requests ‘hate crime’ label for brutal murder

In a statement released today on their website, Georgian LGBT rights group Identoba have called on the authorities to investigate the alleged murder of a transgender woman as a hate crime. Police discovered the body of 25 ye...

by Joseph Smith

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Why Look West: Georgian Foreign Policy in Retrospect

Building peace in Georgia, step-by-step: The importance of youth participation

The tools of peacebuilding: Using the media to build peace in Georgia

Georgian LGBT organisation requests ‘hate crime’ label for brutal murder

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