The EU and Civil Society in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict
This paper deals with the role of the EU in supporting civil society in the case of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. It analyses the patterns of development of civil society actors that played a direct or indirect role in the development of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. In the case of Georgia the paper focuses on NGOs representing the interests of internally displaced persons and civil society players involved in promoting dialogue with the Abkhaz. In the case of Abkhazia, the paper focuses on the development of Abkhaz civil society, the relative strength of which is a mini-phenomenon in itself, as well as the Abkhaz approaches to dialogue with Georgia. The paper then outlines the main EU activities vis-a-vis the civil society actors on both sides of the conflict. The paper concludes that in the absence of strong EU political engagement in conflict-resolution, EU assistance to civil society could not prevent the re-escalation of the conflict and the radicalisation of the Abkhaz and Georgian societies. However EU assistance to civil society contributed to the (parallel and separate) strengthening of civil society on both sides of the conflict lines, which can be considered an achievement in itself, however modest.
LIMITY GRUZÍNSKÉ OBČANSKÉ SPOLEČNOSTI PŘI BUDOVÁNÍ MÍRU (LIMITS OF GEORGIAN CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE PECEBUILDING PROCESS)
Cilem tohoto textu je na přikladu Gruzie identifikovat roli, jakou organizace obcanske spolecnosti hraji v procesu budovani miru. Dale pak poukazat na faktory, ktere cinnost obcanske spolecnosti při transformaci konfliktu limituji. Terenni výzkum byl proveden prostřednictvim rozhovorů s představiteli gruzinske obcanske spolecnosti, jež proběhly v Tbilisi v průběhu cervna a cervence 2015. (The aim of this text is to identify the role of civil society organisations in the peacebuilding process on the case study of Georgia and then point out the factors, which limit the activities of civil society in the conflict transformation. The study is based on field research focusing on civil society organisations in Georgia, carried out in Tbilisi during June and July 2015.)
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