Lectures and Trainings

   

Seminar in Marneuli on Current Georgia–Russia Relations after the August 2008 War

On May 13, 2009, the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, in cooperation with the Institute for Security and Development Policy (Sweden), held a seminar in Marneuli the region of Kvemo Karli. The seminar constituted the third in a series of training and dialogue events within the project on “Strengthening National Integration in Georgia: Avenues for Competence and Confidence Building on Minority Issues”, funded by the Swedish Government. During the first part of the seminar, the President of the Foundation, Dr. Alexander Rondeli held a lecture - “Current Georgia–Russia relations, Mapping out the Roots and Implications of the August 2008 War in Georgia.” The second half of the seminar was dedicated to a lecture – “Georgian Economics in the Global Financial Crisis and Aid Distribution in the Post-War Era” - by the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies scholar, Professor Vladimer Papava.  Both lectures were attended by a large crowd of representatives from the local administration, civil society and students, and were followed by fruitful questions and discussions on contemporary Georgian politics and economics.