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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.

This comment first appeared in The Guardian on 25 April 2013

In both low and middle income countries, well established arguments and solid evidence confirm that there is no real development without peace and only the peace of the graveyard without development. These conclusions have shifted the fulcrum of discussion about development over the past several years. But they have not yet added up to telling anybody how to do it.

Our new paper, Crisis in Mali, looks at what a peacebuilding approach to the conflict in the country could look like.

While there are several narratives about Mali, the one currently dominating the agenda concerns the capture of Mali’s north by radicals and the perceived ungovernability of that region as a result of the lack of governance, and state complicity with criminal groups which in turn was exploited by well-armed, equipped and trained international terrorist groups.

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In November 2012, four young second generation British Sri Lankan doctors travelled to Sri Lanka to learn about healthcare issues on the island. The trip was part of International Alert’s diaspora project, which is funded by the British High Commission in Colombo.

Meera Chindooroy, Project Support Officer, South and Southeast Asia Programme

mchindooroy@international-alert.org

Tue, 19/03/2013

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