Peace, security and stability in Georgia

A community-informed strategy

This report summarises the results of a process to identify and plan for challenges to peace, security and stability in Georgia, undertaken by a network of four representative groups from Kvemo Kartli, Samegrelo, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Shida Kartli in 2009 and 2010. The first section of the report summarises a 'strategy' to meet five key national challenges, as identified by the network, while the subsequent five sections analyse each challenge in more detail and recommend preconditions and concrete steps for how they should be addressed.

The ‘strategy’ is community-informed. This means that the network of representatives groups consulted with a wide group of communities at each step of the process (i.e. identification of challenges, analysis of key challenges and strategising solutions) in order to get their thoughts and perspectives. As such, this is not an ‘expert analysis’, but one grounded in the understanding and reality of people living in four parts of Georgia. We hope that this report will help local, national and international decision-makers to better address challenges facing the country.

This report is one outcome of the project Promoting broader and more informed dialogue on conflict, security and peace in Georgia. Jointly implemented by the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and Saferworld, this project is designed to develop the capacity of Georgian civil society to analyse, and play a constructive role in policy development on, issues related to conflict, security and peace.

The views expressed in this report are not those of Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association or Saferworld.