University of Denver/Tbilisi State University
Country:
Georgia
Award Date:
2006
Award Amount:
$124,992.00
Cost Share:
$79,571.00
Other Partners:
The partnership between the University of Denver and Tbilisi State University will serve to create a Georgian university-based clinic as an educational training center and curricular model that will support a growing cadre of mediation and conflict resolution practitioners in the South Caucasus region. Through intensive training, classroom seminars, and mediation observation and practice, students in this mediation clinic will learn to mediate various civil and community disputes. Besides the training of Conflict Resolution MA students, the clinic will provide free and confidential mediation services to the general public as well as staff, students and faculty at Tbilisi State University. Because of the Mediation Clinic, business, educational, and legal sectors will also have a local and well- respected institution to whom to take their disputes. The partnership will not only result in new training, expanded curricula, and institutionalized conflict resolution services, but also in the cultivation of local expertise and the validation of local historical wisdom in conflict resolution processes.