Caucasus Laboratory of Geopolitical Modelling of Caucasus International University is a research unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Caucasus Institute of Regional Security.
Laboratory activities are implemented in the frameworks of STI&E (Science, Technology, Innovation and Education):
Public Lectures organized on the initiative of Laboratory:
2012 - “Culture of protest and dialogue in post-communist countries” - Adam Michnik, famous Polish journalist, leader of the Polish community, dissident journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza.
2013 – Ambassador John MacDonalds, Amercan Diplomat, the author of the Multi-track diplomacy concept.
2017 – Ambassador David Djalaghania Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
2017 –Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Ighor Dolgov
2018 – Ambassador Günther Baechler, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus
2018 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Georgia Mariusz Maszkiewicz
2018 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to Georgia Ingrīda Levrence and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Georgia David Aptsiauri
2019 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden to Georgia. H.E. Ulrich Tidestrom
2019 - Ambassador Rudolf Michalka Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the South Caucasus - Rudolf Michalka
Main projects implemented with participation of Laboratory
2012 - “ARTZONE-2012”, Donor: MFA Poland Program “Public diplomacy 2012”, Main implementer: The Other Space Foundation and Helsinki Citizens Assembly
2013 - “Informational and analytical support of Ukraine’s leadership in OSCE”, Donor: the Embassy of Switzerland in Georgia, The Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia
2013 - To contribute to the employment of women in Tskhinvali, Donor: The Friedriech Ebert Stiftung
2014 - Pilot project: building an OSCE Youth Network in Georgia, Donor: OSCE
2014- Perspectives of the settlement of the Ukraine crisis, Donor: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
2015 - New Threats to Security in Black Sea - Caspian region, Donor: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
2015-2016 To support democratic participation and civil integration of youth representing minority Muslim communities in areas characterized by low levels of development, Donor: Embassy of Canada,
2015-2018 - Mskhalgori Expedition - Agency of Cultural Heritage and other partners
2016 - New challenges in OSCE region: civil support of the process of Austria’s OSCE Chairmanship in 2017, Donor: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
2017 – co-partners in the project “Minsk Process at the Civic Level – Black Sea Trust German Marshall Fund
2017 - The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) (Ukraine) - International School of Municipal Diplomacy
2019 – “How to Make Eastern Europe’s Gray Zone less Gray?”, International Centre for Black Sea-Baltic Studies and Consensus Practices
2019 – “German-Georgian Cooperation: developing music diplomacy”, Chamber Choir Voci di Fuoco, Goethe-Institute
2018-2021 -Interdisciplinary comparative analysis of the complex system of the Abkhazian conflict via innovative 4D-RAV-17 method - Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG)
2019 – Presentation of the idea of Global University in Parliament
Current project:
Political Studies of the Caucasus - Opportunities for Regional Cooperation in conditions of Unresolved Conflicts
Main scientific publications of Laboratory Experts
2021 -Monuments of sorrow: tools for rooting confl icts and peacebuilding on the example of post-Soviet Georgia, Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. LV (3) p.173-190
2020 - Abkhazian crisis: from the Concept of Awareness of Common Threats to the Building of an "Abkhazian Security Community" Scientific and Theoretical Almanac Grani, 23(3), 118-134. 2020
2020 - Nuclear and radiation threats as resources for modelling the security community on the example of the Abkhaz political crisis Scientific and Theoretical Almanac Grani, 23(4), 75-92 2020
2020 - CRISIS IN THE PROVISION OF PEACE PROCESSES IN GEORGIA WITH QUALIFIED SPECIALISTS (DEFECTS IN TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE), Tskhum-Abkhazian Academy of Sciences
2020 - International politics of secessionists and unionists and prospects for their cooperation, CULTUROLOGICAL BULLETIN: SCIENCE AND THEORETICAL YEARBOOK OF NYZHNIA NADDNIPRIANSHCHYNA (THE LOWER DNIEPER UKRAINE) Issue 41. Volume 1 (2020)
2019 - The concept of polydiplomacy and the innovative educational foundations of Georgian international politics Scientific journal of the Institute for Political Studies Caucasus International University POLITO/LOGOS
2019 - Neological conflict as a component of complex system of Abkhazian conflict, SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS OF GURAM TAVARTKILADZE TBILISI TEACHING UNIVERSITY VOLUME #9
2019 - The Abkhaz Conflict in the Context of Abkhaz Studies (Abkhazian Studies) Tskhum-Abkhazian Academy of Sciences PROCEEDINGS XVII-XVIII
2018 - Caucasian partnership of the Eastern Division of "Solidarity Fighting" in 1989-1991 Conference materials
2018 - Georgia: between Zephyrus and Boreas, Zaporizhia State University, Conference materials
2018 - SIM method as an opportunity for deserved employment, Conference materials
2017 - From educational/professional deprivation to professional happiness, Conference Proceedings
2017 - SIM method of minimization of educational and professional deprivation (Innovative approach for management of science and education in Georgia), Scientific journal “Public Administration”, 3-4/2017, ISSN1829-0167 p.499-507
2015 - Small and Large dimensions of the South Caucasus in multipolar world, Yeni Türkiye, Yeni Türkiye Stratejik Araştırma Merkezi, 75-2015, p.97-111
2013 - ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICTS AND PEACE PROCESSES, THE BLACK SEA PEACEBUILDING NETWORK bulletin #12
2012 - PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES FOR CHRONIC NON-REGULATION OF ‘OUR’ CONFLICTS THE BLACK SEA PEACEBUILDING NETWORK Bulletin #9
2012 - Power Differentials and Identity Formation: Images of Self and Other on the Russian-Georgian Boundary National Identities Volume 14, 2012 - Issue 2, ISSN 1460-8944. 14(2), s 139- 155
Head of the Laboratory:
Dr. Alexander Rusetsky
alex_scirs@yahoo.com
Deputy Head:
Dr. Olga Dorokhina
olga_dorokhina@ciu.edu.ge