Participants at 12th Schlaining meeting in Austria in December 2003. Manana Gurgulia, director of the Sukhum Media Club. From left to right: Stanislav Lakoba, secretary of the Abkhaz National Security Council; Zurab Erkvania, chairman of the Georgian committee for missing soldiers; Ruslan Kishmaria, head of the Assembly, Gali region, Abkhazia; Irakli Alasania, special representative of the president of Georgia. On the left, Irakli Alasania, special representative of the president of Georgia; on the right, Garri Samanba, MP, chairman of the committee on Defence and National Security at the Abkhaz National Assembly. On the left, Anatoly Otyrba, Abkhaz political analyst; on the right, Irakli Gegechkoria, deputy special representative of the president of Georgia.

Schlaining Process

A key strand of CR’s work in the South Caucasus has been the establishment of a regular series of 'dialogue workshops' for Georgian and Abkhaz officials, politicians and civil society activists. 

Known as the Schlaining Process (after the Austrian town where the first meeting was held) the workshops offer participants from across the conflict divide the opportunity to meet in an informal and strictly confidential capacity to analyse and exchange information about the peace process.

Over the past decade there have been twenty such workshops involving more than 100 people. Participants have included presidential representatives, government ministers, members of parliament, representatives of non-governmental organizations and the media.

The Schlaining Process was a joint project with the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management (Berlin, Germany) until the end of 2005.

Statements and press releases from the Schlaining Process

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