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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

This third volume of the South Caucasus Literary Almanac presents a new selection of prose, poetry and essays from the five literatures of the South Caucasus, published in Russian. Following the theme of the 'ordinary person' suspended between war and peace, this volume expands the scope of artistic material, featuring paintings and sculptures as well as interviews with prominent cultural figures reflecting on the phenomenon of a South Caucasian cultural identity.

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International Alert’s new research, Myths and conflicts in the South Caucasus, sheds light on the ways in which myths and stereotypes about the conflicts in the South Caucasus are created, communicated and used in the region.

Данная публикация пытается пролить свет на способы, с помощью которых создаются и передаются мифы и доминантные нарративы, связанные с конфликтами на Южном Кавказе. Особое внимание уделено тому, каким образом связанные с конфликтами мифы обусловлены местными политическими манипуляциями, как создаются «образы врага» и каким образом они, в свою очередь, способствуют усилению сопротивляемости конфликтов их разрешению.

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This publication attempts to shed some light on the ways in which myths and dominant narratives associated with the conflicts in the South Caucasus are constructed, transmitted and used in the region. A region-wide research project examined three main modern mechanisms through which myths are created and disseminated: through history textbooks; through political discourse; and through the media, including the blogosphere.

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Данная публикация пытается пролить свет на способы, с помощью которых создаются и передаются мифы и доминантные нарративы, связанные с конфликтами на Южном Кавказе. В охватывающем весь регион проекте исследованы три механизма, с помощью которых создаются и распространяются мифы. Особое внимание уделено тому, каким образом связанные с конфликтами мифы обусловлены местными политическими манипуляциями, как создаются «образы врага» и каким образом они, в свою очередь, способствуют усилению сопротивляемости конфликтов их разрешению.

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This publication attempts to shed some light on the ways in which myths and dominant narratives associated with the conflicts in the South Caucasus are constructed and transmitted in the region. A region-wide research project examined three mechanisms through which myths are created and disseminated. A particular focus of interest was how myths associated with the conflicts are subject to domestic political manipulation, how “enemy images” are created, and how these in turn serve to strengthen the resilience of those conflicts to resolution.

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После смены власти в Грузии в октябре 2012, International Alert запустила новый процесс «Диалог через исследование» с грузинскими и абхазскими экспертами – и предложила им критически оценить проблемы и возможности, стоящие перед обоими сообществами в среднесрочной перспективе – до 2020 года. В данном сборнике мы представляем девять дискуссионных статей, которые отображают Грузино-Абхазский конфликт в контексте демократизации и управления, строительства государства и национального строительства, социально-экономического развития и международных отношений.

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Following the change of government in Georgia in October 2012, International Alert launched a new 'Dialogue through research' process with Georgian and Abkhaz experts, inviting them to take stock of the challenges and opportunities facing both societies, taking a medium-term view to 2020.

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Last month International Alert organised a four-day training seminar for students from South Ossetia on overcoming societal trauma through civic activism, as part of a project funded by the European Union and UK Conflict Pool.

Last month ten Armenian and Azerbaijani media professionals travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to attend an intensive conflict study programme organised by International Alert.

The trip was part of our broader programme supported by the European Union and UK Conflict Pool which involves working with journalists from the Nagorny Karabakh conflict context.

We are proud to present four more articles in our Caucasus Dialogues series, which focuses on current issues evolving in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict context. This month the articles focus on three different themes: the role of the church in the conflict context; the new politics of the new Georgian government; and the role and effectiveness of the Abkhaz parliament.