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.

The short documentary film “Kapitän Wakusch” or in english: “Captain Wakusch” is a poetical portrait of the German-Georgian writer and philosopher Giwi Margwelashvili.

The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office - South Caucasus region will offer two scholarships for PhD students accepted for the 2022-2023 academic year PhD program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University.

Judicial reforms have been high on the new democratic reforms’ agenda of Armenia since the 2018 Revolution as the low level of trust in the judiciary was one of the reasons behind the Velvet Revolution. 

The goal of the project is to promote critical discussions among Armenian researchers, social scientists, social science students, as well as civil society representatives on the prevailing collective knowledge, power, nation, culture, gender, and sexuality.

The project contributes to the emerging debate on Yerevan’s urban development by focusing on the complex intertwining between its past, present and future, as well as highlighting critical aspects of current urban transformation. 

The project is trying to fill the gap related to trauma literacy and the trauma-informed approach that we observe with peacebuilding practitioners (practitioners) in Georgia and Armenia.

The Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) will train young researchers to assess the changing geopolitical and security environment in the South Caucasus, including the role of regional actors, such as Turkey, Russia, and Iran.

The project aims at establishing an open platform for young artists from the regions and developing an art project focused on democratic development and political participation in smaller towns.