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Colonialism and the Environment - Call for Participation in the Green Laboratory Armenia 2023

We announce a call for participation in the Green Laboratory Armenia 2023: Colonialism and the Environment.

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Self- Government in Georgia – Imitating Change Without Purpose?

The article examines the current state of self-government in Georgia - an area that has received relatively less attention in the process of forming the agenda of modern Georgian public life.

By Dr. David Losaberidze

Artwork by Sevinj Abaasova, personalities

Azerbaijan: The Use of Violence and Discrimination against Feminist and LGBTQ+ Communities

The feminist movement and the LGBTQ+ community represent marginalized populations in Azerbaijan - they experience social, political, and economic discrimination and exclusion.

A Green European Perspective for Georgia

On April 1, 2023, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office - South Caucasus Region, in collaboration with Mtsvaneebi (Greens Georgia), organized an online discussion entitled "A Green European Perspective for Georgia". The discussion focused on the recent massive street protests in Georgia led by young people and a broad civil society

The backbone of democracy: Robin Wagener on civil societies in the South Caucasus

Robin Wagener, member of the German Bundestag, became the Federal Foreign Office’s coordinator for inter-societal co-operation with the South Caucasus, the Republic of Moldova and Central Asia on 1 March 2023. In this conversation, we are going to be talking about his new task and the condition of civil societies in the South Caucasus.

By Dr. Sonja Schiffers

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History of Other Heroes

What values can the representation of minority cultures in the teaching of history promote among young people? What can be the importance of studying the history of Georgia as a place of meeting and fusion of different cultures?

By Sophie Zviadadze

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The article analyses the main trends of the memory politics in contemporary Azerbaijan. The author focuses on the specifics of the memorialisation of the events and heroes of the 'First Republic' (1918-1920); the events of January 1990 as the most important site of memory; the personality cult of the previous president Heydar Aliyev; and the memory politics with regard to the Karabakh conflict, including the commemoration of the Second Karabakh War (autumn 2020) unfolding in front of our eyes.

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Politics of Memory In Independent Georgia

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a global-historical transformation, and as a result, the Soviet system unraveled, and new nation-states emerged.

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Illustration by Sevinc Abassova, Caucasian women and men

Feminist Foreign Policy and the South Caucasus

This dossier looks at the possibility of feminist foreign policy in the context of the South Caucasus, a region coined by armed conflict, destabilizing external interference and military threat, and all but feminist governments

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ცხოვრება მანგანუმის ქალაქში | Living in the city of manganese - Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus

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Living in the city of manganese

The Chiatura manganese reserves have been one of the most strategic natural resources of the country since the Soviet period. The life of the small town of Chiatura and the surrounding villages entirely depends on manganese mining. At the same time, current practices of manganese extraction and processing are linked to drastic environmental and social impacts, abandoned and disappearing villages.