De-Radicalization and Integration Legal & Policy Framework in Georgia

Abstract

The summer of 2021 in Georgia was marked by violent attacks on the LGBTQI+ community and journalists. Massive attacks on representatives of media were led by far-right groups and several Orthodox clergymen, in response to the planned Tbilisi Pride March. This was not for the first time in the last decade that representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church together with alt-right groups were involved in violence against minorities. The report on De-radicalization and Integration Legal & Policy Framework in Georgia engages with these incidents and aims to analyze legal and policy frameworks for de-radicalization and integration in Georgia. The latter remains a challenge as ethnic minorities in Georgia tend to live in communities and their civic integration remains a challenge. It provides a brief contextual and historical overview of radicalization and deradicalization policies and practices in Georgia, unpacks the existing laws and policies in the field of radicalization, identifies some major gaps and flaws in these frameworks, and provides policy-relevant recommendations on how to improve exisiting issues...