Project title: Promoting broader and more informed dialogue on conflict, security and peace in Georgia06.11.2012
Project title: Promoting broader and more informed dialogue on conflict, security and peace in Georgia Partners: Saferworld and Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA)
Project coordinator: David Losaberidze
Duration: 01.10.2009 - 31.03.2011
Donor: EC
Description
The project Promoting broader and more informed dialogue on conflict, security and peace in Georgia is jointly implemented by the Caucasus Institute, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and Saferworld, is designed to develop the capacity of Georgian civil society to analyse and play a constructive role in conflict and security issues. The process involves a two-way conversation between core groups of community representatives and wider society in the four target regions, with the following objectives: 1. to elicit information from community members about their perspectives on conflict issues 2. to provide more balanced and impartial information about conflict issues 3. to stimulate communities to think about these issues in new and wider ways 4. to share perspectives between community members in the different regions. The process is not intended to provide authoritative sociological data on the attitudes of the Georgian public, but rather to promote a deep and sustained discussion among a consistent group of interlocutors, that will reveal the diversity of views and feelings, especially as expressed in different regions of the country. The methodology for the discussion focuses on three levels: community, regional and national. In each of the four regions there are regular meetings to brief a core group of community representatives. The core group members then consult with their respective communities, based on common objectives and guidance for each round of consultations, and they then feed back the outcomes at the next regional meeting. The outcomes in each region are then compiled, before being presented and discussed with representatives of the other regional groups at periodic national meetings. The shared and different perceptions across the country are then fed back to core group members, and subsequently to the communities, in each region. The more nuanced and regionallydisaggregated perspectives of conflict and security issues developed in this process will then serve as the basis for dialogue between Georgian civil society and policy-makers at the national and international levels. Publications Community Perceptions of the Causes and Effects of the August 2008 conflict in Kvemo Kartli, Samegrelo, Samtskhe Javakheti and Shida
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