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The Harriman Institute

Friday, September 21, 2012

RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS FROM BILATERAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

10:00am - 12:00pm

Lindsay Rogers Rooms (707 IAB)

Please join the Harriman Institute for a panel discussion with:
George Khutsishvili – Director, ICCN (Georgia)
Vladimer Papava – Senior Fellow, GFSIS (Georgia)
Archil Gegeshidze – President, Georgian Political Science Association (Georgia)
Andrei Ryabov – Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia)
Gregory Shvedov – Editor-in-Chief, Kavkazsky Uzel (Russia)
Ivan Sukhov – Analyst, Moskovskie Novosti (Russia)
Darynell Rodrigues-Torres (Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict)

The panel discussion will reflect on the intermediate results of the dialogue between Georgian and Russian independent experts that took place in Istanbul at what is now called the Istanbul Process.
The Istanbul Process is prominent among the numerous dialogue processes facilitated by GPPAC. In the aftermath of the August 2008 crisis the International Center on Conflict and Negotiation initiated a Russia-Georgia expert dialogue. The meetings take place in Istanbul and therefore the process was dubbed the Istanbul Process. Since its inception, the Istanbul Process has produced a wide-ranging exchange and analysis of the fundamental causes of the conflict, key trigger factors, and potential mechanisms for stabilizing relations through the creation of a Russian-Georgian dialogue between independent political experts. The book "Russia and Georgia: the Ways out of the Crisis" written jointly by the process participants has been assessed as a success. Currently, the Carnegie Moscow Center, whose experts actively participated in the Istanbul Process meetings from the very start, is acting as the Russian institutional counterpart to ICCN within the Istanbul Process.