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November 28, 2005
Elizabeth Poythress visited GIPA on November 28 and held the
lecture on the theme - HR management and policy development.
Mrs. emphasized the role of the HR management in policy development. |
November 18, 2005
On November 18, 2005 Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA)
graduated 49 Georgian, Azerbaijani and Armenian students, who
had completed master's degree studies at GIPA's School of Government and Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management.
The Rector of the institute, Mr. Giorgi Margvelashvili as well
as the deans of the SG and JS, Mrs. Maka Ioseliani and Mrs.
Maia Mikashavidze greeted GIPA alumnae, members of the Georgian
government and other honorable guests. The graduation ceremony
was held in the small hall of Tbilisi State Conservatory. |
November 11, 2005
Salome Zurabishvili, Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs was hosted
by GIPA on November 11. Mrs. Zurabishvili informed the audience
about future career plans and discussed the present political
situation in Georgia. |
November 3, 2005
David Bakradze MP Chairman of Committee of Integration into
Europe, graduate of GIPA class 1996, held the meeting with GIPA
students and discussed ongoing events and future plans of Georgia. |
November 1, 2005
 Batu
Kutelia, Head of Foreign Intelligence Special Service, graduate
of GIPA class 1996, held meeting with students on November.
Mr. Kutelia discussed the security system. |
October 27, 2005
Nick Vashakidze, GIOC President, one of the successful graduates of GIPA held a meeting
with the students of GIPA on October 27, 2005. Mr. Vashakidze emphasized gained knowledge
played great role in building his successful career. Mr. Vashakidze made some comments
on advantages and disadvantages of Georgia being the oil transit country and remarked that
after the researches have been carried out there is high possibility of discovering the
great Black Sea oil supply, which will serve as a great promotion of Georgia. |
October 25, 2005
Minister of Economic Development of Georgia - Mr. Irakli Chogovadze visited Georgian Institute
of Public Affairs on October 25, 2005. He made short assessment of ongoing economic events
in Georgia. And discussed current and previous privatization process issues on reflection
of student's questions. Mr. Chogovadze also emphasized the fact that some new steps are
going to be made to serve an advantage of attracting investments into the development of
regional industry. |
October 25, 2005
On October 25, NATO ambassador to the Caucasus region Robert
Simmons came to GIPA and gave a wide-ranging talk and press
conference on the current and future relationships between NATO
and the three countries. NATO has been cooperating on an Internet
news site project under the supervision of CSJMM faculty members
McPhillips and Vashakmadze. |
October 20, 2005
On October 20, 2005 Local Government Administration Master's Program students
hosted Mr. Robert Nef, Head of Liberales Institute, the first
truly independent NGO and Think Tank in Switzerland. A number
of issues such as freedom and autonomy, decentralization and
promotion of local governance, were raised at the meeting. |
October 14, 2005
GIPA hosted Kote Kublashvili, Chairman of the Supreme Court
on October 14, 2005. He said that one of the main purposes to
transmit to the democratic state is to create an independent
and unbiased judiciary system. The guest speaker made an n emphasis
to the specific skills of judges, which are to be taken into
the consideration while selecting them from a wide number of
candidates. Being a good lawyer does not mean being a good judge.
A lot of efforts are made to train judges to establish the system
of selecting them in a fair way.
The topics were dealing with the relation of judiciary branch
with other branches of authority. The guest speaker in an
interesting and warm atmosphere conducted the meeting. |
October 3, 2005
On October 3, GIPA café hosted the ex-Minister of the Finance
(New Zealand), Ruth Richardson. The guest speaker emphasized
that elected officials of the public sector are responsible
to the citizens for the provision of efficient and quality services.
The attention was paid to the concept of "independence" which
can be considered as a platform on which the state is able to
build. Free economy. Georgian government for supporting and
consulting the reform processes in Georgia has invited Mrs.
Richardson. The crucial point is that all reforms are to be
managed in a high quality matter. She also underlined that modern
human resources management and modern financial resources management
are items to which a great attention must be paid. |
September 30, 2005
On September 30, 2005 GIPA hosted Michael A. Steiner, Senior
Mathematical Statistian of the U. Department of Agriculture.
Guest speaker underlined that USA try to help Georgia in the
process of improving statistical informational databases. In
general Statistical information is necessary as a basis for
making s decision. Mr. Steiner talked about the ways of gathering
statistical information, the system of statistics, which is
not similar for each particular country. He mentioned that there
is two kinds of systems, so called centralized and decentralized;
both have their own advantages. As for Georgia it has centralized
statistical system, which has been reorganized and now is called
the department of statistics, which is the part of the Ministry
of Economical Development. At the end Guest speaker thanked
the administration of GIPA. |
September 28, 2005
Local Government Administration Program Graduates, members of Local Governance
Professional Network hosted Mr. Vano Khukhunaishvili, Deputy
Chairman of Regional Policy, Self-Government and Mountainous
Regions Committee of Parliament of Georgia. Mr. Khukhunaishvili
familiarized the participants with draft laws concerning self-governance
elaborated by the Committee. The draft laws will be officially
discussed in the Committee in November 2005. Heated debate arose
over acceptability of the draft laws and several issues concerning
relations of central government and self-governments in Georgia. |
September 27, 2005
Mr. Kote Kemularia, Minister of Justice was invited to SG on
the 27th of September. Guest speaker discussed several criminal
topics, such as the reforms conducted in criminal law, civil
law, and penitentiary law enforcement. The guest speaker mentioned
that significant steps have been taken towards establishing
of the Institute of advocators (attorneys) in order to make
it independent one.
The great attention was paid to the police patrols reform, which
is being considered as one of the most successful. It was noticed
that new generation police officers are given high salaries;
they are well equipped, which causes the reduction of corruption
and establishing the tendency of getting people back to the
police. The meeting was going on in an interesting and warm
atmosphere. |
September 23, 2005
On September 23 Local Government Administration Program Graduates, members
of Local Governance Professional Network met Tengiz Shergelashvili,
Chairman of Young Economists Association of Georgia Executive
Council. Mr. Shergelashvili familiarized the graduates with
a number of draft laws concerning self-governance, which are
opposite version of draft laws elaborated by the Regional Policy,
Self-Government and Mountainous Regions Committee of Parliament
of Georgia. |
September 2, 2005
Eleven advanced students from J-school start their school year
with new exciting experience gained from their international
internships. They practiced working in broadcast and print media
in Holland, France, Czech Republic and Russia. Among the media
they worked with are: Television and Radio Company Omrop Frysl,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Echo Moskvy, Ren - TV,
TV Mir and a newspapers Moi Raion.
J-School students had possibility to work in international
environment and apply western journalism standards acquired
in the academic program of the school.
They observed the journalistic routines at the popular broadcast
(television and radio) and print media's newsrooms so that
they learned how daily decisions are made and programs composed;
how news stories are planned and prepared.
They believe that internships will strongly facilitate to
their success in the profession.
Besides hard work in the newsrooms, students had a lot of
fun and enjoyed being in foreign countries.
In September five more students will have internships in
Russia and Poland. |
July 27, 2005
Tatia Khurtsilava from CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network)
was invited by SG on July, 27. Guest speaker and students touched
different topics, but among them the attention was mostly paid
to student's environmental project. She briefly presented the
aims of the above mentioned project. They are:
a) Active involvement of students in the process of making decisions
dealing with protection of environment
b) Enhancing the effectiveness of solving problems connected
with environmental protection
c) Enhancing the quality of priority of environmental issues
at each level
d) Creating interest in population in order to get more information
about environmental issues
The meeting was going on in an interesting atmosphere. |
July 13, 2005
On July13, SG students hosted Michael Kelleler, Country Director of National Democratic
Institute for international affairs. The aim of NDI is to promote democracy. This institute
does the following things:
1) It works with women leaders
2) It consults with parliament in different issues
3) It is involved in ISFED (international society for fair elections and democracy)
He estimated the level of democracy in Georgia as a little bit better than it was before the
"Rose Revolution". Michael Kelleler underlined that "Politics is about learning and adapting,
so one never should stop learning", it's important to take into consideration that civil society
and human rights should be respected.
The students seemed to be interested in such issues as: economic and democratic development,
the system of good governance, the status of Adjara's autonomy, etc.
Guest speaker mentioned that he is interested in Georgia's culture and history and cares
much about what happens in Georgia.
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May, 2005
In May 2005 repair works have been conducted in the cafe of
the institute. Walls and floor have been painted, new pieces
of furniture and accessories delivered and placed. Students
of Public Administration Program took active part in repair
works. The renewed cafe will continue to be favorite meeting
place for students, teachers, administration and guests and
a hosting place for meetings, discussions, press-conferences
and parties. |
July 3, 2005
On July 2-3, 2005 Alexander Dolidze MPA student organized billiards
tournament in the club - "Universe". Billiards club "Universe"
was quite gripping during the two-day competition. The aim of
the tournament was to create tight relationship among the students
of various faculties, alumni and administration and discharge
them from their busy schedule.
Three top players were awarded after the two-day competition:
Eldar Topchi - gold medal,
Giorgi Tsitskishvili - silver medal,
Lasha Abashidze - bronze medal. |
July 1, 2005
SG students hosted Giorgi Papuashvili, the minister of environmental
protection on July 1. The guest speaker mentioned about 256
NGOs, which carry out actions (events) in this field. He marked
out two main directions - the protection of environment and
the natural resources, which are in the prerogative of the abovementioned
ministry. He said some words about the reorganization of the
ministry of environmental protection.
Giorgi Papuashvili underlined that the institute of environmental
protection's inspectory would be established in the nearest
future, the mines would be handed over by the way of auction,
the problem of dust-heap would be solved as far as possible.
It's worth noticing that the great attention will be paid to
ecotourism (ecological tourism). Questions asked by students
were dealing with the important issues existing in the protection
of environment. |
June 30, 2005
Gocha Svanidze, the head of the company "Svanidze and the Company"
visited the SG on June 30. During the introduction he spoke
briefly about his company which is estimated by the society
as a successful one.
The active topic discussed at the meeting was about the establishment
of the institute.
The students showed interest in such topics, as the system
of arbitration, which is the alternative form of justice,
the process of establishing the institutes, which will prepare
advocates, the issues of the privatization of land etc.
The meeting was evaluated as a useful source of getting information
in this field. |
June 28, 2005
SG students hosted Ana Dolidze, the Head of Georgian Young Lawyers
Association, who discussed different interesting topics with the students. Among
them worth of noticing are the elections of the City Mayor, the reforms, which
are going to be held at prisons, the Court System, etc. Two ways of holding the city
mayor elections were singled out direct and indirect, and some negative sides
of indirect way were mentioned. The meeting was going on in an interesting
atmosphere and students were motivated to be actively involved in the discussions. |
June 16, 2005
Nick Rurua the Member of Parliament visited the School of Government on June 21, 2005 and had very interesting discussion
concerning to the jury institution and military issues. Nick
Rurua donated the book - "Oversight and Guidance: the relevance
of parliamentary oversight for the security sector and its reform"
to the GIPA library. |
June 16, 2005
Aleks Aleksishvili, Minister of Economic Development, visited
the School of Government on June 16, 2005. Several
important topics were discussed at the meeting. Mostly attention
was paid to the current economical policy of privatization in
Georgia. The Minister represented four types of privatization,
which are declared by the law. The discussion was dealt with
the advantages and disadvantages of the process of privatization.
The topic created interest in SG students, they made an emphasis
on the transparency of privatization and on the strategic economical
units of Georgia. |
June 8, 2005
George Khaindrava, State Minister, visited the School of Government on June 8, 2005. He discussed on the issues of
regional conflicts and its possible settlement processes. |
June 7, 2005
Spa hosted David Rakviashvili, President of Caucasus Travel.
As the Chairman of the Board of the GIPA Mr. Rakviashvili is
well acquainted with the general problems and interests of the
students, thus during the meeting many vital issues were discussed
including the summer camping, mountaining, sport activities
and etc. |
June 6, 2005
Spa hosted the Minister of Power Engineering, Nika Gilauri.
The dialog reflected great interest of SG students related
to the problem of energy supply in Georgia. |
June 2, 2005
Harvard Professor Emeritus of History, former head of the CIA's
"Team - B" to review strategic intelligence, editorial board
member of the number of international scholarly journals, and
a distinguished analyst of the Soviet, Russian and Caucasian
affairs, Dr. Richard Pipes visited the institute to speak on
the process of national security making in the United States. |
May 30, 2005
David Natroshvili- Director of National Investment Agency, Ministry
of Economic Development, GIPA alumnus, visited the School of Government, Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
on May 30, and delivered the lecture on the theme "Investment
climate in Georgia". |
May 17, 2005
Giorgi Arveladze Head of National Movement, MP, GIPA alumnus
visited the School of Government on May 17, 2005.
He discussed about the Georgia's political course in relation
to the conflict zones - Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
May 12, 2005
American media veteran Anne Edwards, who spent six weeks in
Georgia preparing the press operation for the visit of US President
George W. Bush on May 9-10, spoke to the CSJMM students on May
12. Edwards, who has worked for US Presidents Jimmy Carter and
Bill Clinton and also for top radio and television networks
in America, shared with the students the planning that went
into the visit. She also advised them on how to cover such visits
when one-on-one contact with the US President was not possible,
and explained how decisions were made on who in the media would
have access to a visiting US President. |
May 8-13, 2005
The British Embassy and Caucasus School of Journalism and Media
Management organized a training seminar on environmental and
energy issues with CSJMM students on May 8-13 and one-day workshop
for a mixed group of journalists and students from the Department
of Journalism at Tbilsi State University on 7 May. The trainings
was conducted by British trainers (BBC) Tim Grout-Smith and
Lilia Poberezhskaya. Sponsor - British Embassy in Georgia. |
April 26, 2005
The School of Government hosted Deputy State Minister
Mrs. Tamar Beruchashvili, who is also GIPA board member. Mrs.
Beruchashvili made the presentation on the theme "Georgia
and European Union". |
April 21, 2005
Former president of Estonia Mr. Lennart Meri visited School of Government on April 21, 2005. He delivered the
lecture on the theme "Estonian politics and foreign relations".
Mr. Lennart Meri answered students' questions regarding different
international relations issues. |
April 13-15, 2005
On April 13-15, 2005 three-day workshop has been organized
and conducted by Zurab Zhvania Institute of Public Affairs
in order to make the merger to assist both organizations
to be more effective in building a wide-ranged and inter-disciplinary
approach to rural development in Georgia. Participants
included all the staff members representing various
GIPA programs, as well as representatives of US Embassy,
US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service,
Moscow, University of Georgia, USA (UGA), and independent
experts. The meeting was facilitated by Dr. R. Brooks, UGA.
It has been stated that Zurab Zhvania Georgian Institute
of Public Affairs will direct the existing and newly
acquired expertise for Identifying encouraging and facilitating
the development of economic opportunities in rural communities
through working with AgTech Schools and other constituencies,
via implementing various educational and other projects.
The results of the workshop and the importance of merger
once again were underlined and greatly appreciated by
Ms. Betsy Davis, Deputy Director, Development Resources
Division, USDA, Mr. Lawrence Barbieri, Development Resource
Specialist, USDA and Dr. Giorgi Margvelashvili, Rector, GIPA. |
April 12, 2005
British Council and Studio Re hosted students of Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management at the British Council
for the screening of a documentary about Karabakh produced by Studio Re's Georgian journalists and
their Abkhaz counterparts.
Studio Re's Michael Mirziashvili provided an interesting insight in the production process, and answered students' questions. |
April 12-14, 2005
GIPA Georgian Rural Development Program conducted Strategic
Planning Conference. During three days, presentations, project-proposals
and future goals and structure of GRDP were discussed. The meeting
was attended by experts from USDA, US Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia,
as well as invited experts. The meeting was facilitated by experts
from UGA. |
April 1, 2005
Zurab Zhvania Georgian Institute of Public Affairs gave a reception party for launching
its new - Georgian Rural Development Program. High-rank
representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations
and US Embassy were among the invited guests.
The launch of Georgian Rural Development Program took
place as a result of merging the Georgian Rural Development
Program funded by United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA GRDP) and Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA)
for mutual organizational benefit and effective development
of rural sector in Georgia.
The reason for merging USDA GRDP and GIPA derives from the scope of activities and
interests of these two organizations. USDA GRDP has been
involved in rural development in Georgia and has several
successful ongoing projects. GIPA is involved in education/training
programs in journalism and public administration including
local government administration; and is currently developing
its urban and rural development capacity. |
April 4, 2005
On the 56th anniversary of NATO, GIPA hosted the
State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Mr. Giorgi Baramidze, the Ambassador of the United States of America
Mr. Richard Miles and the Ambassador of Bulgaria Mr. Ivaylo Brazitzov,
which is the Contact Point Embassy of NATO to Georgia.
During the meeting the students had an opportunity to listen to the
presentation of the guests on Georgia's prospects towards NATO integration,
NATO-Georgia relationship and they took part in the discussion on
the above mentioned issues. |
March 12, 2005
Georgian MPs, the government officials, civil society and Alumni Members
attended the donation ceremony on March 24, at the Zurab Zhvania Georgian
Institute of Public Affairs. The Head of OSCE Mission to Georgia,
Roy Reeve, donated almost 4,000 Euros worth of specialized up-to-date
textbooks on good governance to the School of Government.
Many of the post-graduates who were trained at GIPA went on to work
in the civil service. The OSCE Mission supports the strengthening
of democratic processes and institutions in Georgia and hopes this
addition to the GIPA library contributes to the above mentioned aim. |
March 11, 2005
The Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management held a graduation
ceremony for 16 students who completed the school's Georgian-language
media management course.
The ceremony was held Friday, March 11 at the IREX headquarters building
in Tbilisi. Several Georgian media professionals were on hand to see
the students present their multi-media final projects.
This was the second Georgian-language media management class to graduate
from the school. |
12 მარტი, 2005 წ.
ზურაბ ჟვანიას სახელობის საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივ საქმეთა ინსტიტუტის სახელით გუდაურში ჩატარდება
ტურნირი სამთო-სათხილამურო სპორტში.
ტურნირის შედეგები იხილეთ აქ. |
March 3, 2005
Veteran BBC television correspondent Mr. Russell Isaacs vistited the Caucasus
School of Journalism and Media Management and shared his experiences as
a conflict reporters in such areas as Falkland Islands, Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Now a trainer for Thomson Foundation specializing in conflict reporting,
Isaacs urged the students to remember there are alwasy two sides to every
conflict and to always strive to report both sides. |
18 თებერვალი, 2005 წ.
GIPA-ს შიდა ჩემპიონატი, რომელშიც მონაწილეობას იღებდნენ ინსტიტუტის
სტუდენტები, კურსდამთავრებულები და პროფესორ-მასწავლებლები, ნარდში,
დასრულდა.
ფინალური შეხვედრა ვახტანგ გენგიურსა და მიხეილ ანანიძეს შორის დასრულდა
ვახტანგ გენგიურის გამარჯვებით. |
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