Our partners in the South Caucasus
Conciliation Resources promotes local ownership and responds to local needs and analysis in all our work. This means engaging in meaningful partnerships, with real give and take. We plan and carry out our activities in partnership and consultation with official, political and civic actors on all sides of the conflict divides.
Working with partners is invaluable for gauging sensitivities and realities on the ground and trying to expand possibilities for change. Consultation helps us test analysis and strategy and ensure local needs are met. We develop relationships that allow partners to challenge each other’s assumptions and in turn be challenged about their own ideas.
Partners in Georgia
Based in Zugdidi in western Georgia where many people displaced by the 1992-3 war now live, Atinati runs projects on education, civil society development and support for socially vulnerable groups. Our work together centres on its regional radio station, which broadcasts news, documentaries, debates and entertainment programmes to a wide audience. It was also a partner in our Radio Diaries project.
This NGO was set up in 2009 to promote wider public debate and awareness of social, economic, cultural and conflict issues in the South Caucasus. Its Eyewitness Studio project gives a voice to ordinary people in Georgia by training them to make short documentaries on issues of their choice. The Russian-language and English sub-titled films are screened on the Eyewitness site and YouTube, where viewers can comment. Go Group also organizes public film viewings throughout Georgia. Margarita Akhvlediani is its co-founder and director.
IDP Network
This network of over 20 organizations and individuals meet regularly to exchange information, ideas and devise strategies to address the needs of people displaced from Abkhazia by the war and now living in Georgia. You can read more about its work in our recently published report, Out of the margins. Securing a voice for internally displaced people: lessons from Georgia.
Marina Elbakidze
Marina works mostly at the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), a think tank in Tbilisi offering commentary on social and political issues in Georgia. She coordinates our work with a network of IDP organizations, and played a central role in our RIME project in Georgia.
This Tbilisi-based journalists’ association produces independent radio programmes and is a partner in our South Caucasus Radio Diaries project. Staffed entirely by IDPs, it produces information about and for people displaced by the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. It encourages debate about non-violent ways of resolving the conflict and gives listeners advice on issues such as housing and employment through broadcasts in IDP settlements in Georgia. PostFactum also works on TV films about the IDP community.
This independent TV production company promotes democracy and civil society in Georgia. It produces documentaries and TV debates, holds public discussions, and monitors social and political issues. With our support since 2000 it has produced a series of televised discussions on the Georgian-Abkhaz peace process and several joint documentaries with Abkhaz journalists, shown on Georgian state TV and local stations.
Paata Zakareishvili
Paata is a leading Georgian analyst and activist who has played an essential role in our programme since it began. He is a key partner in the Schlaining dialogue process, contributes to our work with displaced people and acts as an adviser on the development of our work on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
Partners in Abkhazia
International organizations we work with
Partners working on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict
