South Caucasus Mediation and Dialogue Initiative

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This new training manual is designed to promote critical thinking towards enemy images and discourses at the heart of the conflict dynamic in the South Caucasus. Designed to be useful for professionals such as teachers, students, journalists and peacebuilding practitioners, the training should equip participants with tools to resist the manipulation of public opinion through invented stereotypes.

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International Alert has produced a new training manual to promote critical thinking in relation to the conflicts in the South Caucasus.

International Alert is proud to present a new volume of the South Caucasus Literary Almanac, featuring paintings, essays and poetry by renowned and new wri

«Искусство занимается правдой и извлечением правды; оно дает голос безмолвным»

Паулина Росс, директор драматического театра, Дерри/Лондондерри

‘Art is about truth and the excavation of the truth; giving voice to the voiceless’ - Pauline Ross, Director, Playhouse Theatre, Derry/Londonderry

International Alert has published the second edition of the South Caucasus Literary Almanac, a collection of prose and poetry from the five literatures of the South Caucasus – Abkhaz, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian and Ossetian – published in one volume in Russia

International Alert is proud to present the first in a series of short analytical articles on topical current affairs from the Caucasus region, with a specific focus on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.

On 1st and 2nd December 2010, International Alert hosted a meeting of political analysts, sociologists, journalists, bloggers and civil society activists from the Caucasus to begin to design a new research project examining how to address myths and stereotypes that feed into conflict dynamics in the region.

International Alert hosted a roundtable on Georgian-Abkhaz relations in Brussels on 29th November with experts from the South Caucasus, Russia and representatives of European institutions and the UN. This roundtable was the culmination of a two-year dialogue through research process between Georgian and Abkhaz experts which International Alert has been facilitating with a view to contribute new thinking on conflict related issues to as wide an audience as possible.

Alert is pleased to present its most recent publication on the Caucasus: Dialogue on security guarantees in the context of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict. This paper presents the separate analyses of both Georgian and Abkhaz civil society experts on the need for security guarantees in the region, the reasons why the two sides have been unable to agree on these and the barriers and opportunities for future agreements.