{"id":14748,"date":"2013-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/event\/how-to-make-georgian-democracy-work\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:50:39","slug":"how-to-make-georgian-democracy-work","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/event\/how-to-make-georgian-democracy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Georgian democracy work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion of the visit to Georgia by Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director of the European Endowment for Democracy, Ilia University and the Delegation of the European Union welcomes you to a panel discussion about the conditions for democracy <strong>on 16 October 2013 at the Ilia University, at 17:00 in \u00a0Room A 101<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the discussion the panelists will address issues like the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Legitimate representation<\/strong>: how do political parties build on and manage personal loyalties, collective interests and ideology?<\/li>\n<li><strong>How to balance majority rule versus minority rights<\/strong>: in a democracy the majority decides, but what are the limits to its power over individuals and minorities?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Institutions and the common good<\/strong>: democracy works through process and compromise, producing results that are ideal to no-one but acceptable to all. How are stable democratic institutions that serve the common good built?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel will discuss these and other questions, looking at the situation in Georgia and comparing it with the experience of Poland &#8211; a country that, like Georgia, has transformed radically since the fall of communism, and has managed social and political tensions by establishing strong democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jerzy Pomianowski<\/strong> is the Executive Director of the European Endowment for Democracy. He has served in the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Deputy Foreign Minister and Director General with a focus on democratization and development. In his youth, he was active in the democratic opposition against the Polish communist regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Oliver Reisner <\/strong>is a Doctor of Modern Georgian History, Goettingen University. He coordinated a post-graduate Central Asia\/Caucasus programme at Humboldt University; managed an EU-funded civic integration project for minority-populated regions of Georgia. Currently is a project manager at the EU Delegation to Georgia and continues his academic work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Vazha Salamadze<\/strong> is a founding director of Civil Society Institute. Of his 26-year experience in public sector 18 years were dedicated to development of civil society and promoting enabling environment\u00a0 for CSOs. He teaches policy analysis at several universities of\u00a0 Georgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tamar Tsopurashvili<\/strong>\u00a0is an Associate Professor, Acting Director of Savle Tsereteli Institute for Philosophy at Ilia State University. She studied and defended her PhD thesis at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum (Germany), participates actively in current public debates on democratization and human rights issues in Georgia, is involved in civil activism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>European Endowment for Democracy<\/strong> is a European initiative to advance and encourage deep and sustainable democracy in transition countries, with a focus on the European Neighbourhood. The EED receives requests for support from civil society organisations, movements and individual activists regardless of their size or formal status.<\/p>\n\n<p>[wpai_display_imported_files_here]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion of the visit to Georgia by Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director of the European Endowment for Democracy, Ilia University and the Delegation of the European Union welcomes you to a panel discussion about the conditions for democracy on 16 October 2013 at the Ilia University, at 17:00 in &nbsp;Room A 101&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[67],"tribe_events_cat":[51],"class_list":["post-14748","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-qaz-en","tribe_events_cat-events","cat_events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14748"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}