Democracy

Opening remarks by Nino Lejava, Director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s South Caucasus Regional Office in Tbilisi.

Opening remarks by David Usupashvili, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Tbilisi.

Arpine Galfayan (Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Yerevan) offers an account of public, street and environmental activism in Armenia.

Z. Ismayil, Director of the Public Association for Assistance to Free Economy, speaks about property rights in Azerbaijan, retracing its current situation to problematic legislation and state policies

David Losaberidze from the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), Tbilisi, analyses public self-determination in the light of street activism.

Gayane Shagoyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan) contrasts technological modernization in Armenia to societal and political de-modernization.