The 15th volume of Aspects consists of transcripts of presentations and discussions at the conference "Conflict and Migration: The Georgian-Abkhazian Case in a European Context" held in Istanbul, in June 2008.
The present publication is a collection of articles preapred for the conference "Addressing hte Needs of Greater Gender Equality in Georgia" held in the frameworks of the EU funded project "Civil Initiative for Equal Participation".
This publication presents a final product of "Building public confidence and maximizing participation of disadvantage groups in democratic processes through transparent elections in Georgia" project funded by Delegation of European Union to Georgia.
This publication includes articles written on the basis of the public debates organized at the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation in 2007 and 2008. Articles are arranged in 4 groups: City and Citizens, Tolerance and Equality, Ethnic Conflicts: Searching for the Trust, and Georgian Media.
The proposed collection represents the scientific results of the fourth generation of the scholars of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and allows observing the scope of scientific interests of the new generation of researchers in the South Caucasus.
The collection of papers presented to the reader by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, is not entirely ordinary. It is not in the sense that it presents papers written by young scholars whose original research was conducted not within the frameworks of a South Caucasus regional programme that has been carried out by the Foundation since 2003.
This volume includes transcripts of presentations and discussions of the multilateral part of the conference "Georgian NATO accession and Potential Impacts on the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process" held in IStanbul, June 12-15, 2007.
The 13th volume of Aspects includes transcripts of presentations and discussions at the bilateral and multilateral conference "Prospects for Georgia and Abkhazia in the Context of Black Sea Integration" held in June, 2006 in Istanbul.
What role have women played in Georgia’s transition to democracy? What is the formal and legal framework for gender equality in Georgia; how and by whom has it been put into practice? What role does civil society play in democracy building and the advancement of gender democracy?
The 12th volume of Aspects includes transcripts of presentations and discussions at the conference "Russia's Role: Realities and Myths" held in Moscow, in June 2005.