Nani MACHARASHVILI

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Nani Macharashvili, D.Sc. (Political Science), associate professor at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

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IS GEORGIA FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION BY REJECTING THE RETRIBUTIVE MODEL?

ABSTRACT

Reconciliation is a mechanism of conflict settlement and normalization of relations between former opponents. This process facilitates a return to the pre-conflict situation, which explains why I have undertaken to discuss national reconciliation within the John Lederach transformation model, according to which national reconciliation is intended to transform negative relations into positive or, at least, till the soil for such transformation. Here I will discuss reconciliation as a process through which mechanical harmony is transformed into organic. This is a process in which the vertical relations between the conflicting sides become horizontal and the success of which is indicated by the changes in the sides’ behavior, actions and, generally speaking, relations.

Introduction

The observers were in two minds about the decision of the new Georgian leaders, brought to power by the Rose Revolution, to resume investigations of the circumstances in which Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first President of independent Georgia, lost his life. Back in June 2004, this was a……………..

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