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International Alert recently published a report on Refugee return to eastern DRC, a discussion document that explores and warns of the dangers posed by the issue of returning refugees from Rwanda to North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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.