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Institute of World Policy together with Caucasian House held public debates within the initiative «Georgian Experience for Ukraine» on April 15th.The first panel «Strategies on Occupied Territories: Isolation or Engagement?»

Participants discussed Ukraine’s policy towards occupied territories in the context of Georgian experience; in particularly, they defined the main challenges and problems in engagement with people of Donbass and Crimea and formulated recommendations to the government on how to overcome them. During the debates the policy brief «Strategies of Ukraine for Building Relations with Population of Occupied Territories and Georgian Experience» has been presented.

Speakers: Giorgi Kanashvili, Executive Director of the Caucasian House, Marina Vorotnyuk, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Odessa branch), and Maria Zolkina, analyst at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.
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Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Board of the Institute of World Policy, and Giorgi Kanashvili, Executive Director of the Caucasian House
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Maria Zolkina, political analyst at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, and Francesca Stidston, DFID Representative (Great Britain)
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The second panel “Reforms in Ukraine: How to Avoid Georgian Mistakes”
The panel was focused on the first results of reforms in Ukraine and lessons learnt from Georgian experience. The participants presented the policy brief «Economic Reforms: Market Liberalization vs Social Responsibility (Georgian Experience)».
Speakers: Eric Livny, Head of the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, Oksana Kuziakiv, Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Maka Chitanava, analyst at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (to download her presentation click here).
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{10}Eric Livny, Head of the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University
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Maka Chitanava, analyst at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy .
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Oksana Kuziakiv, Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
The public debates was organized within the framework of the project “Ukraine: out of Crisis through Dialogue”, implemented by the Institute of World Policy (Kyiv) and Caucasian House (Tbilisi) with the support of the British Embassy in Kyiv.
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Oleksiy Semeniy, Director of the Institute for Global Transformations
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