On November 24-25 a two-day workshop was conducted in the office of Fund “Sukhumi”, where experts from the Visegrad countries and Georgia talked about political situation in their countries, discussed attitudes of civil societies and political parties to online tools and outlined draft questions for the Online Vote-O-Meter for 2020 Georgian Parliamentary Elections. The event was successful and fruitful.

The project is implemented with the support  of the Visegrad Fund

In public school N1 of Tskaltubo, within the framework of the project "Empowering women to develop new approaches related to conflict transformation", activist girls conducted a workshop, where they efficiently used the knowledge and skills gained in the training organized by the fund “Sukhumi”..

Participants and the organizers of the workshop, positively evaluated the event: "It is very important what is happning here. It is young people who should be included in the conflict resolution. I am glad that my peers recognize only peaceful forms of conflict resolution. They want to establish contacts with young Abkhazians. "

The discussion of personal conflicts was interesting to young people. The views expressed by them, showed that they are often in conflict with themselves: when they do not know what they want, what their purpose is. Internal conflicts, they often make out, and it is negatively reflected in relations with others.

Imitated family scenespresented by the separate groupswere interesting. Young people came to the conclusion that if we want to solve the conflict, first of all, it is necessary to resolve internal conflicts, and then it will become easier to manage family conflicts.

Workshops were held in Tskaltubo, Poti, Kutaisi.

In Tskhaltubo, Senaki and Poti on the next workshop on conflict, young people have discussed the following questions: "Negotiation, facilitation, mediation - as a conflict management mechanisms."

Role plays on the issue of negotiations have created a good basis for the analysis and  interesting suggestions were recorded:

- The negotiations should be started with common points of contact between conflicting parties. In other cases, there will always be a wall.

- Facilitation - a complex process. The third party should be interested in the solution of the conflict, should be able to analyze in order to properly assess the situation and make a fair decision.

According to the participants, it is necessary to learn how to conduct negotiation. Facilitation Skills that were developed during the workshops, they will use in life for conflict management, which implies prevention of violence.

How important is the solidarity to protect the rights of women, why women often do not support violence victim - these issues were discussed with young people in the workshops held in Tskhaltubo, Poti and Khoni.

Used simulated presentation on the topic of family conflicts facilitated the analysis of the issues discussed.

- Lack of solidarity actually exists. Very often, during conflicts, women not only do not express support to the victim, but on the contrary, in any case, find guilty in a woman.

During a conversation about the reasons, participants focused on Georgian mentality and wrong education. According to them, women need to have more information in order to see the importance of solidarity in the prevention of violence.

With the participation of women of all ages in Senaki, Honey and Koki (Zugdidi Municipality) workshops on conflict were held. Women received information about effective communication, its verbal and nonverbal aspects.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)