International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN)

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

(as of March 1, 2010)

Prof. Dr. George Khutsishvili (native pronunciation: `giorgi `huci`shvili)
Founder and Director of the International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN)

Primary Present Position: Director and Chair, International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN)
Secondary Present Positions: Full Professor, University of Georgia (UG) [formerly, Georgian University of Social Sciences]; the Caucasus Regional Coordinator, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)

Born:
November 15, 1948 in Tbilisi, Georgia, then USSR

Marital/Family Status:
Wife: Nina Tsihistavi, MA (biology), Founding Director of the Caucasus Women's Research and Consulting Network (CWN); Co-Founder of the Women’s Peace Council (WPC) of Georgia; born 06.28.1966;
Daughter: Victoria-Sophia Khutsishvili, student: Georgian-American Reber School, Tbilisi; born 05.27.1996

Addresses and Contact Info:
Office: 5 Machabeli Str., 1st fl., Tbilisi 0105, Georgia; (995-32) 999 987 (office); (995-32) 939 178 (fax)
PO Box 38, Tbilisi 0179, Georgia (ICCN mailing address)
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Webpage (institutional, see Director’s Column): www.iccn.ge

Education/Degrees/Qualifications:
Philosophy Doctor (1991) from the Ukraine Academy of Sciences
(Endorsed by Supreme Attestation Commission in Moscow);
Professor of Philosophy (1982) from Supreme Attestation Commission, Moscow;
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences [equivalent to Ph.D.] (1977) from Tbilisi State University;
Graduate Diploma in Mathematics (1971) from Tbilisi State University;
Certificate of the Fall 1995 Negotiation Training, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School
Certificate of Completion with Honors of the Advanced Two-Year Translator Courses (1987) at Tbilisi Institute of Foreign Languages (English Dept., Simultaneous Translation);

Previous Positions:
2008-2009 Chief Investigator (Georgian side), Multi-track Dialogue for the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict (international project supported by the European Commission), part time
1994-2005 Founding Director, ICCN (primary)
1995-2000 Editor-in-Chief of the ICCN Bulletin Conflicts & Negotiations (part time)
1995-1997 Professor of Sociology at American University of Hawaii, Tbilisi Campus (part time)
1994-2006 Associate Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the Department of
International Law and International Relations, Tbilisi State University (part time)
1998-2001 Professor of Conflict Studies, Humanitarian-Technical Dept., Georgian Technical University (part time)
1994-1995 Consultant on Ethnic Conflict in FSU to the Center for International Security
and Arms Control, Stanford University (Contract # PR 8575)
1993-1994 Research Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University (resident)
1992-1993 Director of the Center for Conflict Analysis / Head of Department for Foreign Relations, State Committee for Human Rights and Ethnic Relations, Republic of Georgia
1989-1993 Professor of Philosophy at Tbilisi Institute of Foreign Languages
1988-1989 Head of Department for Social Sciences, Ministry of Education of Georgia
1980-1988 Co-Chairman of the Council for Methodology of Science at Georgian Academy of Sciences HQ
1972-1979 Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Georgian Academy of Sciences
1971-1972 Mathematical Engineer, Tbilisi Institute for Means of Automatic Control
1966-1971 Student of the Department of Mathematics, Tbilisi State University

Fellowships, Awards and Honors:
1990 Honorary Citizen of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1993 Research Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University (IREX/Carnegie Program in International Security Studies, extended to full academic year with generous support from Mr. David Packard)
1993 NATO Research Fellowship (Democratic Institutions Individual Fellowships Program)
1994 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant (ICCN has been established with this grant)
1995, 1997 Open Society - Georgia Foundation Grants
1995 Norwegian Refugee Council travel grant for the Negotiation Training Course at Harvard Law School
1997 International Studies Association Grant to participate in the ISA Annual Convention in Toronto, 1997
1997 Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Biographical Institute (ABI)
2006 Certificate of Appreciation from the City Council of Los Angeles, USA

Initiatives:
1995-1999 First post-war Georgian-Abkhaz public diplomacy programme (in partnership with International Alert, London, U.K.)
1995-1999 First Post-Conflict Georgian-Osset confidence-building program (in collaboration with the Conflict Management Group (CMG), Cambridge, MA
2002-2006 Movement Against Religious Intolerance in Georgia (MARIG)
2005-present The Council on Civil Rights and Liberties (under the auspices of ICCN)
2009-present Civil Initiative for Constitutional Reform in Georgia

Included in:
2003-present Directory of International Organizations
2000 GIANT Global Information Access Net , entry 3953
1998 International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Twelfth & Thirteenth Editions, published by the International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, U.K.
1997 International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, Seventh Edition, published by American Biographical Institute (ABI)
1996/1997 Who is Who in Georgia, First Edition, publishing house "Diogene", Tbilisi
1999/2000 Who is Who in Georgia, Second Edition, Georgian Biographical Centre, Tbilisi
2000/2002 Who is Who in Georgia, Third Edition, Georgian Biographical Centre, Tbilisi
1996-2001 in UNHCR, OSCE, Intl NGO Directories (as leader of ICCN and/or member of councils, commissions, etc.)
2002 Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia (An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities), edited by Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen, and Juliette Verhoeven, Lynn Rienner Publishers: Boulder-London (published in cooperation with ICCN)

Consulted/Advised:
1992-1993 UN Office and CSCE Mission in Georgia; Georgian Government and
Head of State's Office on Ethnic Conflict and Civil Dispute in Georgia
1994-1995 CISAC, Stanford University on Ethnic Conflicts in the FSU (Contract PR #8575)1999-2000 OSCE Mission in Georgia
2000-2001 USAID/Caucasus
2001-2002 European Center for Conflict Prevention, the Netherlands
2002 USAID fact-finding mission with regard to conflicts in Georgia

Study Trips and Mediation Done to the Conflict Zones:
Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), North Caucasus (Russia), Middle East, Kosovo/Serbia, Cyprus (northern and mainland parts), Northern Ireland (U.K.), the Basque Country (Spain), Aland Islands (Finland), et al.

Membership in State Commissions of Georgia:
2002-2005 Expert Commission for the Caucasus oil/gas pipeline projects
1999-2004 Center on Public Opinion and Media at Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1995-1998 State Commission on Foreign Policy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1996-2002 State Commission for the Development of the National Security Concept for Georgia
1998-2000 Coordinating Council of NGOs at the State Chancellery of Georgia
2008 – present Expert Council for the State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia

Major Conferences/Workshops (Chair and/or Initiator)
1993 Ethnic Conflict and Federalism (Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. jointly with Center for
Conflict Analysis, Tbilisi, Georgia), Tbilisi: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993 Ethnicity and the Post-Soviet Reality (joint Stanford-Berkeley Workshop), CISAC, Stanford University
1996 Developing a Regional Security Concept for the Caucasus (NATO-ICCN Workshop), Tbilisi
1998 The 80th Anniversary of Georgian Democratic Republic (Harriman Institute-State Chancellery of Georgia-ICCN), Tbilisi - New York – Paris
2003 Structures of Corruption in Georgia, February 2003, ICCN-Friedrich Naumann Foundation
2003 Perspectives of Georgian-Russian Cooperation in Regional Security, ICCN-FNF, May 2003
2003 Religionsfreiheit in Georgien (Situation with Religious Freedom in Georgia), ICCN-FNF, September 5, 2003
2006 First Congress of Non-governmental Organizations of Georgia, June 25, 2006 (supported by Cordaid)
2007 Second Congress of Non-governmental Organizations of Georgia, Nov. 15, 2007 (supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands)
2008 Third Congress of NGOs of Georgia, April 2008 (Supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Georgia)

Membership in Societies/Councils:
2003-present Member of the International Steering Group of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)
2009-present Member of the Board, Human Rights Priority (NGO, Georgia)
1998-present Member of TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network (Founded and Directed by Dr. Johan Galtung)
1999- 2002 Member of Advisory Board, Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC), Tbilisi, Georgia
1996-1998 Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
1995-1997 Georgian Regional Representative of EAWARN (Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflict coordinated by CMG/Harvard University and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy of Sciences)
1995-1997 Chairman of Expert Commission, Open Society - Georgia Foundation
1995-1997 Founding Vice President of the Academy of Philosophical Sciences of Georgia
1995-1997 Co-founder and Member of Board, International Society for Fair Elections, Georgia (later - ISFED)
1979-1988 Vice-Chairman, Co-Chairman, Council for Methodology of Science,
Georgian Academy of Sciences HQ

Taught Courses In:
2007-present International Conflict Analysis (Master Programs, UG)
1994-2006 Conflict Theories (Bachelor and Master Programs, TSU)
1999-2001 Peace Studies and Conflict Management (Georgian Technical University)
1996-1997 Introduction to Sociology (American University of Hawaii, Tbilisi Campus)
1994-1996 Foundations of Modern Science (in English; Advanced Translation Courses at Tbilisi Institute of
Foreign Languages)
1988-1991 Business English (Tbilisi Business School/ESM)
1987-1991 Fundamentals of Conflict Resolution (Tbilisi Business School)
1980-1993 Classical Philosophy (in English and Russian, TIFL)
1983-1986 Symbolic Logic (TIFL)
1974-1986 Classical Philosophy (TSU)

Language Proficiency
Georgian (native)
Russian (second native)
English (professional command; certified simultaneous translator)
Italian (read with dictionary)
German (elementary)
French (starting)

Computer Skills
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Mobile Technology (Windows Mobile 6.1 – 6.5)
High typing speed
Good culture of written correspondence

Major Publications:

Books (18 altogether: author, co-author, editor):

2010 Georgian-Russian Relations: Ways Out of the Crisis (ed and co-author; forthcoming in Tbilisi by GPPAC & ICCN)
2008 Civil Society and the Rose Revolution in Georgia (editor and co-author), Cordaid & ICCN: Tbilisi
2008 Minorities in Georgia: Situational Analysis [Internally Displaced People, Muslim Meskhs, Religious Minorities, Ethnic Minorities] (co-editor). EED & ICCN: Tbilisi
2003 Terrorism: What Should We Know About It? ICCN & Friedrich Naumann Foundation: Tbilisi (in Georgian and Russian)
2002 The Abkhazia Problem Reflected by Public Opinion: Findings of the Sociological Surveys in Georgia (2001-2002). Tbilisi: ICCN (editor), in Georgian, Russian and English languages
2002 In co-authorship with Nani Chanishvili, Revaz Jorbenadze, Guguli Magradze, Feride Zurikashvili. Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding. UNIFEM: New York & Tbilisi
2002 Prospects of Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus: Findings of Sociological Surveys (editor and co-author). Tbilisi: ICCN & Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
2001 George Khutsishvili, Rusudan Mshvidobadze, George Nizharadze. Integration and Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus: Reality or Illusion? (Findings of Sociological Surveys). Tbilisi: ICCN (in Russian with English Summary)
2000-2001 How to Resolve Conflicts (ICCN Peace Education Series 1-4, editor). Tbilisi: ICCN
1999 Restoring the Culture of Peace in the Caucasus: A Human Solidarity Document (editor), by Marina Pagava. Tbilisi: ICCN
1998 Understanding Conflict. Tbilisi: ICCN (editor & co-author); ISBN 99928-58-07-9
1997 Developing a Regional Security Concept for the Caucasus. Materials of the NATO-ICCN Workshop (chair & co-author, ed). Tbilisi: ICCN
1989 Genesis of the Structure of Theoretical Thinking. Tbilisi: Academic Press, 1989 (in Russian)
1981 The Problem of the Infinite in the Light of Modern Science. Tbilisi: Academic Press, 1981 (in Russian)

Selected Articles in Journals, Chapters in Books, Published Papers:
(Note: Newspaper articles are included only if the size of spreadsheet and of analytical content)

2010 The Georgian Conundrum: What Happened in August 2008: Ten Versions (forthcoming in Berlin)
2010 Georgia’s Security Dilemma in the Light of Post-August Realities (forthcoming Tbilisi: FES & Independent Experts’ Club)
2009 Georgia’s Degenerative Transition. In Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs (eds), Democracy’s Plight in the European Neighbourhood, Brussels: CEPS & FRIDE
2009 Synthesis Paper in Georgian and Abkhaz Perspectives on Human Security and Development in Conflict-Affected Areas (A Policy Research Initiative), Madrid: CITpax & EC
2009 The Concept of Tolerance in Contemporary Georgian Thinking. In Nugzar Bardavelidze, ed. Research for Religious Studies. Vol. 1-2. Georgia: Religion and Modernity. Tbilisi: Sulhan Saba Institute (pp.32-36)
2008 The David and Goliath Syndrome in Georgia-Russia Relations. www.iccn.ge (Director’s Column)
2008 Proportions of Disproportion in Crisis: Russia-Georgia Confrontation and its Regional Consequences. Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus Confrontation in the Caucasus: Roots, Dimensions and Implications. The Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran, October 28-29, 2008
2007 Unresolved Conflicts in Georgia: Deadlocks, Oxymorons and Strategies, Regional Security Issues, (edited by Gayane Novikova), Yerevan: SPECTRUM
2007 The Only Way for Georgia to Be a Reliable and Stable State, in Georgia Today weekly, #383, 16-22 Nov. 2007
2007 Sluipenderwijs op weg naar een eigen staat, interviewed by Het Parool, the Netherlands, February 10, 2007
2006 The Abkhazia and South Ossetia Cases: Spoilers in the Nearly Collapsed Peace Process, in Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond. eds. “Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution”. Tokyo - New York - Paris: United Nations University Press
2005 Post-revolutionary Georgia: Frozen Conflicts and Prospects of Eurointegration, in V.Zhurkin and A.Yazkova (eds), South-Eastern Europe and Russia: Mediterranian-Black Sea Region Problems (Materials of International Conference, November 18-19, 2004). Reports of the Institute of Europe of RAS # 162, Magazine “Vestnik Analitiki”, Moscow: OGNI TD (pp.122-125)
2004 Urban Population of Georgia on Religion-related Issues: Results of the Sociological Research. In co-authorship with George Nizharadze et al. In The Role of Orthodoxy in the States and Communities of Georgia and Russia (Materials of the Georgian-Russian Conference). Tbilisi: Heinrich Boell Foundation (In Russian)
2004 The Tom and Jerry Effect in the Picture of Ethno-political Conflict. 24 Hours Daily, July 21, 2004, Tbilisi
2002 Ethnic Conflict in Georgia, in co-authorship with Neil MacFarlane, in S.A. Giannakos, ed., "Ethnic Conflict: Religion, Identity and Politics". Athens: Ohio University Press /Swallow Press
2001 Ethnic and Religious Conflict, Internal Displacement, and Human Rights, in "Local Government Reform Initiative: Baseline Assessment Georgia", prepared by Ritu Nayyar-Stone et al. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute
2000 What Freezes and What Unfreezes Conflicts?
2000 The Kosovo Conflict: The Balkans and the Southern Caucasus, in co-authorship with Albrecht Schnabel, in "Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship" (Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Takur, Eds.). Tokyo – New York - Paris: United Nations University Press, 2000 (The American Library Award 2002)
1999 Georgia's Security Problem and the Post-Soviet Prospect, written for the final book of the project
"Integration and Disintegration in FSU: Implications for Regional and Global Security"
(Terry Hopmann, Stephen Shenfield, Dominique Arel, eds), Providence, RI: Brown University
1999 How can Citizen Diplomacy Succeed When Official Diplomacy Fails? In V.Keshelava, ed. Proceedings of the International Conference-Seminar on Ethnic Cleansing in Abkhazia, Tbilisi, July 6-7, 1999
1999 Actual Situation of Georgia in 1998, Georgica, published in Amsterdam, Holland, June, #4, 1999
1998 The Caucasus and Europe, The Analysis of Current Events (ACE), Publication of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. New York, May 1998
1998 Towards an Inclusive Interpretation of Conflict, in George Khutsishvili, ed, "Understanding Conflict". Tbilisi: ICCN
1998 A Mistake that has Victimized our Society (re Georgian-Abkhaz Dispute), in daily Ahali Taoba, reprinted in weekly Kavkasioni (in Georgian), and later in monthly Obschekavkazskaya Gazeta (in Russian)
1998 The Country Between Assaults. Perspective (Published by the Institute for the Study of the Conflict, Ideology and Policy at Boston University), March-April 1998
1997 The OSCE and Conflict in Georgia, in Neil MacFarlane and Oliver Thraenert, eds. "Balancing Hegemony: The OSCE in the CIS". Kingston: Queen's University Press
1997 Towards a More Secure Caucasus, with Brief Introduction to the Caucasus, in George Khutsishvili, ed. "Developing a Regional Security Concept for the Caucasus", Final Report. Tbilisi: ICCN
1997 On the Outskirts of Empire. WarReport (Publication of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting). London, June-July 1997
1996 Consolidation or New Conflict? WarReport. London, June 1996
1994 Democracy or National-Sozialismus? (Russia's Choice and the Post-Soviet Prospect). Contention (Debates in Society, Culture and Science; Nicki Keddie, ed.). Published by Indiana University Press, Vol.4, #1, Fall 1994
1994 Intervention in Transcaucasus. Perspective. Boston, February-March 1994
1994 Nationalism: Isolation and Integration Trends (The Case of Georgia), in "Ethnicity, the State and Security" (Materials of the Minnesota-Stanford-Wisconsin MacArthur Consortium on International Peace and Co-operation), February 1994
1992 Let Us Look Truth in the Face, daily Droni (in Georgian)
1988 The Concept of Metaculture in Hermann Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel. Filosofskiye Nauki. Moscow, #12, 1988
1985 Challenges to Mathematical Thinking, in: Acad. Yuri Ovchinnikov, ed. "Methodological Seminars". Moscow: Nauka Publishers, 1985
1983 The Problem of the Infinite in Philosophy and Mathematics. Filosofskiye Nauki. Moscow, #2, 1983
1979 Foundations of Set Theory and the Problem of the Infinite. Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Philosophy and Psychology Series), #4, 1976 (in Russian)
1974 Zeno's Paradoxes in Light of Modern Science. Bulletin of Georgian Academy of Sciences (Philosophy and Psychology Series, #4, 1974 (in Georgian)

Fiction:
1991 S.O.S. (psychological story). Filosofskaya i Sociologicheskaya Mysl. (Publication of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences) Kiev, #11, 1991 (Originally published in the collection of Georgian writers “The House under the Plane Trees”. Tbilisi: Merani Publishers, 1988. Reprinted twice, in Russian and Ukrainian; unpublished English translation made in USA available from the author.)

Philosophy of Science, Religion and Art:
2002 Dali's Stairway to Heaven, or the Sacred Geometry of the Cross. Peace Times (quarterly bilingual magazine), #4, 2002. ICCN: Tbilisi

Selected Interviews (dedicated interviews or extensive quotes):
2009 Six Months After the War, Georgia Looks Very Different, the Guardian (interviewed by Jonathan Steele), 26.01.09
2009 Along the Russian-Georgian border, war games or prelude to war? The Christian Science Monitor (interviewed by Fred Weir), 30.06.09
2008 Verhandlungen hдtten Eskalation verhindert. Interview in Der Standart (online edition of Vienna #1 newspaper), August 8, 2008
2008 Double Standards for Kosovo, The Georgian Times (English Edition), January 28, 2008
2007 Sluipenderwijs op weg naar een eigen staat, Het Parool (Weekly Dutch Magazine), 10.02.07
2006 Okruashvili Flew Over Kokoity’s Nest, Ahali Shvidi Dge (New 7 Days), #35, 8-14 Sept. 2006 (in Georg., pp.6-7)
2005 Burenruzie in de bergen: Zuid-Ossetie zoekt aansluiting bij Rusland. Maar Georgische President Mikhail Saakasjvili gaat nier verden dan ‘Autonomie’. Elsevier (Dutch Weekly News Magazine), 5 Februari 2005, pp.45-46
2005 Byuyuk Ortadogu projesi kafkaslar ichin faydali (interviewed by Yasin Uygur), Aksiyon (a Journal published in Istanbul and Europe), #538, March 2005
2004 The Velvet Revolution Continues Its Way. Kavkazskyi Aktsent (bi-weekly paper), #2, 16-31.01.2004
2003 The Giant Who Shrank: A Post-Communist Tale (by Seth Mydans). The New York Times, November 30, 2003
2003 Called Home to Rebuild, Georgian Led Revolution (by Peter Baker). The Washington Post, November 26, 2003
2003 Georgia’s Partner in Democracy: U.S. (by Scott Peterson). The Christian Science Monitor. November 26, 2003
2003 In Georgia, High Hopes, Hurdles (by Scott Peterson). The Christian Science Monitor. November 25, 2003
2003 Nieuwe leiders staan voor zvare taak. de Volkskrant, the Netherlands daily paper, 25 November 2003
2003 Tensions Rise in Georgia Over Vote Results. The Christian Science Monitor, November 12, 2003.
2003 The Silence of the President. New Izvestia (Noviye Izvestiya), Moscow, November 11, 2003
2003 Political Crisis in Georgia: Strategic Approach Expected From All Political Parties. Kavkazskyi Aktsent, Tbilisi, 16.11- 30.11.2003
2003 Human Rights in the South Caucasus Countries. Аргументыифакты (Argumenty I fakty), International Edition. Moscow, No. 1-2, January 2003
2002 US-Russia Ties Jolted by Crisis in Georgia (Attack on Pankisi Gorge flies in the face of American strategy). The Christian Science Monitor (interviewed by Scott Peterson). August 26, 2002
2002 Грузинские инициативы вокруг Абхазии (Гиорги Циклаури). Газета СНГ (www.gazetasng.ru) 13.05.2002
1996 Shevardnadze Set to Rule over the Divided. Eastern Express (interviewed by
Laurence Sheets of Reuters). Singapore, 13 January 1996
1993 Mysteries of the Caucasus. San Francisco Chronicle (interviewed by Ed Epstein for 'Insider World'). October 1, 1993

Multi-Media and Encyclopedia Articles:
1996-2004 CultureGram: Republic of Georgia. (CultureGrams are published by Axiom Press), also available at www.culturegrams.com and Microsoft Encarta World Encyclopaedia CD-ROM.