2015

Georgia ranks 134th out of 156 countries in the United Nations World Happiness Report 2013. The list is topped by some of the Northern and Central European countries – Denmark, Norway and Switzerland – whereas central African states such as…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 17th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Timothy Blauvelt, American Councils and Ilia State University  Giorgi Khatiashvili, Georgia Regents University “Stalinism and Islam in the Soviet Periphery: The 1929 Muslim Uprising in Ajara”…
Although from 2011 to 2014 there was a slight increase in the perception that in Georgia everyone is equal before the law, almost half of the population still does not expect the courts will treat the rich and the poor equally.
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 16th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! George Welton, GeoWel Research  “Resource Flows, Politics and Instability in the Caucasus: a Discussion on Identifying Cause”
WVS data provides us with the opportunity to find answers to this question by comparing the qualities that Georgian parents report as important for children to learn with their own attitudes and values that they report while answering a number…
Illegal government surveillance is an issue which has been intensely debated in recent years in Georgia. Surveillance related legislation was adopted in 2010 and allowed law enforcement agencies to have unlimited access to telecommunication servers and hence to monitor everyone’s…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 15th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Paul Manning, Trent University
“Animating the City: Safavid Soundscapes in Socialist Tbilisi” Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 6:30pm
EPF/CRRC-Georgia, Kavsadze St. 3, Tbilisi
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 14th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Lucile Bardin, Central European University  “Security and Identity in the South Caucasus. A case study of the Armenian minority of Samtskhe-Javakheti”