Resources on conflicts and peace processes in the South Caucasus

Audio resources

• South Caucasus Radio Diaries (2006) CR's partners have been recording real life stories from ordinary people since 2002. These diaries are broadcast on radio stations and published in newspapers across the South Caucasus. Listen to a selection of Russian-language audio diaries or buy the CD compilation. A book about this project can also be downloaded or bought. Read more about the project.
  
  

• Abkhazia – a view from within (2004) This audio CD produced by our partner in Abkhazia, Radio Soma, documents life today in Abkhazia by exploring the capital, Sukhum/i, and its inhabitants, the business community and religion. Listen to excerpts on Soma’s website.

Video resources

• Dialogue through film DVD (2008)
  A selection of short films from a unique project on the conflict over Nagorny Karabakh. Made by young Karabakh Armenians and Azerbaijanis, they chart the hopes, fears and humour of people living with the consequences of conflict. Buy the DVD.

• Abkhazia – one side of a conflict (2004) - a Georgian journalist’s view on life and attitudes in Abkhazia a decade after the year-long war between Georgia and Abkhazia.
  
  

• Ten years on and still waiting  (2004) - offers an Abkhaz perspective on Georgia and the aspirations of its people, including those displaced by the conflict.
  
  

• Karabakh (2004) - a film made jointly by Georgian and Abkhaz journalists about the conflict over the territory of Nagorny Karabakh.
  
  

• Northern Ireland experience (2003) - a film made jointly by Georgian and Abkhaz journalists about the conflict in Northern Ireland.
  
  

• Hoping for peace (2002) - focuses on the impact of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict on the residents of the Gal/i region.

Photos

View the South Caucasus Radio Diaries photo gallery and the Dialogue Through Film photo gallery.

Educational and training materials

• Discussion pack on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. Russian 2002 [pdf 650kb]. Produced with the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, this is used as a tool for conflict analysis with groups of young people in Georgia and Abkhazia.
  
  

• Working with conflict: skills and strategies for action. A source book for people working in areas affected by conflict and violence and used in conflict analysis workshops run by our partners in Georgia and Abkhazia. The original English language version by Fisher et al was published in 2000 by Zed Books in association with Responding to Conflict.

Georgian section 1 [ pdf 1.2mb]    Get Adobe Reader
Georgian section 2 [ pdf 820kb]
Georgian section 3 [ pdf 1.1mb]
Georgian section 4 [ pdf 700kb]

Russian section 1 [ pdf 4.2mb]
Russian section 2 [ pdf 3.7mb]
Russian section 3 [ pdf 3.7mb]
Russian section 4 [ pdf 1.5mb]

Occasional papers and articles

• The Rose Revolution and the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: light at the end of the tunnel? Article by Rachel Clogg, Conciliation Resources, published in Johnson’s Russia List Research and Analytical Supplement, issue no. 24, May 2004
  
  
• Changing the guard. Article by Jonathan Cohen, Conciliation Resources, published in The World Today, [Royal Institute of International Affairs], January 2004 [pdf 1.2mb]
  
  
• The Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: reflections on four study visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Clem McCartney, Jonathan Cohen, Rachel Clogg, February 2003
  
  
• Struggling to find peace. Chapter by Jonathan Cohen, Conciliation Resources, published in Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia, Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen and Juliette Verhoeven eds., Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, 2002


• Abkhazia: ten years on.  Article by Rachel Clogg, Conciliation Resources, commissioned by the Association for the Study of Nationalities Analysis of Current Events in 2001. 

Publications 

• Twelve artists, one town – 2008 calendar (2007) CR and Radio Soma, Abkhazia’s first independent radio station, produced a 2008 calendar which features a collection of paintings of the Abkhaz capital, Sukhum/i by Abkhaz, Georgian, Russian and Tartar artists who lived in the town before the war. In English and Russian.
  
  

• South Caucasus radio diaries book (2006) A selection of real life stories from ordinary people since 2002. These Russian-language diaries are broadcast on radio stations and published in newspapers across the South Caucasus. The book can be downloaded and an audio selection of diaries and a CD compilation are also available. more.
  
  
• The limits of leadership: elites and societies in the Nagorny-Karabakh peace process (Accord Issue 17, 2005). New translations for Accord issue on Nagorny Karabakh are now available in Azeri and Armenian, with a new preface, also in English, by the Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey.
  
  
• Пределы возможностей лидеров: элиты и общества в нагорно-карабахском мирном процессе (Accord выпкуск 17, 2005)
  
  
• Owning the process: public participation in peacemaking (Accord issue 13, 2002) outlines approaches developed by government and civil society that open up the process to more people. Available in Russian.
  
  
• Сопричастность процессу Участие общественности в миротворчестве (Accord выпуск 13, 2002)
  
  
• A question of sovereignty: the Georgia-Abkhazia peace process (Accord Issue 7, 1999)
  
  
• Проблемы суверенитета: Грузино-абхазский процесс мирного урегулирования (Accord выпкуск 7, 1999)
  

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