Call for proposals: The 6th Annual CRRC Conference "Coming together and growing apart: A decade of transformation in the South Caucasus"Place and date: June 26-27, Tbilisi, Georgia The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) seek proposals for the...
Roy Southworth, our dear friend and colleague, died on July 23rd in California from cancer.About a dozen years ago Roy volunteered to be the founding chair of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation. The organization emerged from Eurasia Foundation’...
On Wednesday, March 21, at 18:30 Dustin Gilbreath will give a talk impact evaluation in agriculture: "Post-Hoc Blocking for Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation: An example from the Impact Evaluation of the Agricultural Support Program in Georgia". T...
CRRC-Georgia calls for proposals for "The 6th CRRC Methodological Conference: How Evidence-based Urban Policy Can Make Cities Inclusive, Just, and Livable" that will be held on June 22 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference will bring together loca...
On Wednesday, February 14, at 18:30 Koba Turmanidze will present his paper "Talk to them: How election campaigns increase partisanship in Georgia" at the third talk of the Spring 2018 Works-in-Progress series. The talk will explore the impa...
This Wednesday, on January 24, 2018 at 18:30, CRRC, ARISC and American Councils are opening the Spring/Summer 2018 Works-in-Progress series with the first talk by Abel Polese from the Dublin City University, "The SCOPUS diaries and the (il)logic...
"For the Wrath of God: Fatalism and Images of God in Violent Regions of the World" by Christopher D. Bader, Andrea Molle, Benjamin Gurrentz and James J. Coyle was published in the Sociology of Religion (Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 2017,...
The Caucasus Analytical Digest (issue no.100) explores Georgia's domestic political landscape and offers the following articles: "Georgia’s 2016 Parliamentary Election: One Year Later" By Tornike Zurabashvili "The Public Political Mood in G...
On Wednesday, December 13, 18:30 at the CRRC-Georgia Office, Dr. Stephan Rindlisbacher from the University of Bern will give a talk about his work in progress "The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic as an Object of Neglect". Ste...
On Wednesday, November 22, 18:30 at CRRC-Georgia office Dr. Vincenc Kopeček from the University of Ostrava (Czechia) will present his work "De Facto States and Their Patrons: Towards Theory-Building". Terms such as occupation, puppet state, protecto...
The borderlands of the Caucasus mountains have been the site of fierce territorial contestation and enduring religious rivalries. The communities that historically inhabited this region were frequently subjected to the tumultuous aftermath of the shi...
Call for proposals: The 6th Annual CRRC Conference "Coming together and growing apart: A decade of transformation in the South Caucasus"Place and date: June 26-27, Tbilisi, Georgia The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) seek proposals for the 6th Annual CRRC Conference, and welcomes proposal...
CRRC Georgia is carrying out an omnibus survey in December 2019. In past rounds of the survey, researchers from the IOM and Harvard among others provided questions for the survey.Individuals and organizations interested in adding questions to the survey are invited to get in touch about potential in...
Roy Southworth, our dear friend and colleague, died on July 23rd in California from cancer.About a dozen years ago Roy volunteered to be the founding chair of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation. The organization emerged from Eurasia Foundation’s work in the South Caucasus and is dedicated to e...
CRRC-Georgia is looking for a Policy Analyst, who is expected to participate in designing, implementing, and analyzing CRRC’s research outputs in Georgia. This is a full-time position of 40 hours per week with a minimum time commitment of two years.Requirements: MA degree or higher in...
“If you had a chance, would you leave Georgia for a certain period of time to live somewhere else?” According to Caucasus Barometer 2017, over half of the adult population of Georgia (55%) responded positively to this question....
The September issue of CRRC's Data Bites newsletter is out. Read about most popular blog posts of CRRC, media coverage and launch of new surveys in the September 2018 issue of CRRC's monthly newsletter....
On Wednesday, March 21, at 18:30 Dustin Gilbreath will give a talk impact evaluation in agriculture: "Post-Hoc Blocking for Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation: An example from the Impact Evaluation of the Agricultural Support Program in Georgia". This is the fourth talk of the Spring 2018 Works-in...
CRRC-Georgia calls for proposals for "The 6th CRRC Methodological Conference: How Evidence-based Urban Policy Can Make Cities Inclusive, Just, and Livable" that will be held on June 22 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference will bring together local and international researchers to discuss innovat...
On Wednesday, February 14, at 18:30 Koba Turmanidze will present his paper "Talk to them: How election campaigns increase partisanship in Georgia" at the third talk of the Spring 2018 Works-in-Progress series. The talk will explore the impact of party-voter linkages on partisanship - how f...
CRRC-Georgia is announcing the vacancy of the Development Manager, who will work under the supervision of the President of CRRC-Georgia. The Development Manager leads the fundraising team and contributes to external communications and quality assurance of written outputs. This is a fu...
This week, 2017 Caucasus Barometer survey (CB) data will become publicly available on CRRC's online data analysis portal. CB is the longest running survey project in the South Caucasus region, with data available from 2008 to present. It enables the comparison of trends in the region over ...
This Wednesday, on January 24, 2018 at 18:30, CRRC, ARISC and American Councils are opening the Spring/Summer 2018 Works-in-Progress series with the first talk by Abel Polese from the Dublin City University, "The SCOPUS diaries and the (il)logics of academic survival. A short guide to desi...
"For the Wrath of God: Fatalism and Images of God in Violent Regions of the World" by Christopher D. Bader, Andrea Molle, Benjamin Gurrentz and James J. Coyle was published in the Sociology of Religion (Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 2017, 78:2 173–191). The article is based on data...
The Caucasus Analytical Digest (issue no.100) explores Georgia's domestic political landscape and offers the following articles: "Georgia’s 2016 Parliamentary Election: One Year Later" By Tornike Zurabashvili "The Public Political Mood in Georgia" By Tsisana Khundadze (CRRC-Georgia) "Why ...
On Wednesday, December 13, 18:30 at the CRRC-Georgia Office, Dr. Stephan Rindlisbacher from the University of Bern will give a talk about his work in progress "The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic as an Object of Neglect". Stephan Rindlisbacher is currently working in Moscow,...
On Wednesday, November 22, 18:30 at CRRC-Georgia office Dr. Vincenc Kopeček from the University of Ostrava (Czechia) will present his work "De Facto States and Their Patrons: Towards Theory-Building". Terms such as occupation, puppet state, protectorate etc. are quite often employed in order to des...
The borderlands of the Caucasus mountains have been the site of fierce territorial contestation and enduring religious rivalries. The communities that historically inhabited this region were frequently subjected to the tumultuous aftermath of the shifting power balance of the empires that sought to ...
Are you a research-minded university graduate who wants to gain an important skill set that is absent in Georgia? Do you want to work hard and open the door to international opportunities? If so, then this is for you!...
Territorial integrity is frequently cited by Georgians as one of the most important national issues, but the relative salience of Georgia’s territorial conflicts has declined since the 2008 Georgian-Russian war. Evidence from the 2013 Caucasus Barometer suggests that there is a high level of uncertainty about when or if the conflicts will be resolved and that there is little public support for any type of settlement involving less than the full restoration of Georgia’s territorial integrity (such as high levels of autonomy for Abkhazia or a confederation state).
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