Mapping and Mitigating Georgia’s Resilience Risks

The project aims to initiate a strategic dialogue between the Georgian think tanks and state security agencies to engage in local and global risk mapping and integrate them in four dimensions in support of resilience building as the national responsibility and a collective commitment rooted in Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Reaching this goal could firstly be possible by mapping the global risks towards which Georgia is vulnerable, together with the expert community and in cooperation with the state’s key stakeholders, which could be done with participatory-based research work and thematic working meetings. The final impact of the action will be the engaged expert community, representatives of the security sector, and NATO in thematic policy discussion about national strategic planning for tackling the most acute local and global risk(s) emanating from specific state actors or intentionally directed towards Georgia.

The overall goal of GIP is to initiate a strategic dialogue between the Georgian think tanks and state security agencies to engage in local and global risk mapping and integrate them in four dimensions in support of resilience building as the national responsibility and a collective commitment rooted in Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Specific objective 1: Mapping the local and global risks towards which Georgia is vulnerable, together with the expert community and in cooperation with the key stakeholders.

Specific objective 2: Distinguishing the most acute local and global risk for Georgia for testing it in four dimensions (institutional, political, societal, and public-private) as important ingredients of resilience-building in cooperation with the NATO Resilience Committee.

Specific objective 3: Advocating the concept paper for mitigating the local and global risks for resilience building in Georgia by stimulating broader multi-stakeholder discussion and policy dialogue. 

Key activities of the project:

• Developing the Concept Paper for Global Resilience Risk Mitigation for Georgia based on the expert survey, closed working meetings and consultations with the NATO Resilience Committee;
• Delivering a lecture and arranging the public discussion at the Black Sea Summer University;
• Presenting the Concept Paper on Local and Global Resilience Risk Mitigation before the relevant stakeholders;
• Based on the developed resilience local and global risk map and concept paper for mitigating the specific risk, creating the visual info-graphics illustrating the key risks and mitigating tools/solutions for resilience building in Georgia