[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”3700″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Mariam Bochoidze” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 3 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Mariam Bochoidze is currently senior year student at International Black Sea University, faculty of Social Sciences and direction of International Relations. Mariam is doing her internship at ,,Caucasian House” since October. Mariam participated in IBSU exchange program and studded in Poland for one semester. She was a member of ,,Tbilisi Hippo Fund” and volunteer of European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi in 2015. Her academic interest is Negotiation and Conflict resolutions.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”3560″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Oscar Wales” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 3 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties, writing analytical papers.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Oscar graduated from the University of Manchester in 2015 with a BA in Russian Studies, before then proceeding to complete an MA in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics at University College London in 2016. Upon the completion on his master’s degree, Oscar moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for six months where he worked as an English teacher and volunteered as a researcher and publications assistant at a local NGO, the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations.
Throughout and following his studies Oscar has developed a keen interest in the politics and society of the countries of the former Soviet Union, particularly with regards to minority rights, ethnic conflict, nationalism, internet activism and censorship.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Oscar’s blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Finterns-blog%2Foscars-blog%2F||target:%20_blank|”][vc_custom_heading text=”Oscars ‘s article -” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”3266″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Jim van Moorsel” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 2 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties, writing analytical papers.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Jim recently graduated at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) in the MSc programme Globalisation, Migration and Development, a trajectory within the Master of Human Geography. For his master thesis, he focused on the topic of borders and migration in the Mediterranean. While doing a research internship at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2015, he carried out extensive fieldwork in Catalonia, as well as in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and Morocco. In 2016, he worked as a volunteer at Vluchtelingenwerk Oost-Nederland, becoming involved with the Dutch language learning of Eritrean refugees.
With a BA in Romance Languages and Cultures (Radboud University), and with stays in Granada (Spain) and Porto (Portugal), Jim has always shown a big interest in languages, linguistics and literature and currently also works as a professional freelance translator. The Caucasus, as a highly multi-ethnic, multilingual and multicultural entity, has always had his attention. His main research interests include borders, political relations, migration, religious extremism and demographics.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Jim’s blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Finterns-blog%2Fjims-blog%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Jim’s article – ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL PARTNERSHIP IN THE CAUCASUS: THE AZERBAIJANI-GEORGIAN-TURKISH APPROACH” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fregional-dialogue.com%2Fen%2Feconomic-and-geopolitical-partnership-in-the-caucasus-the-azerbaijani-georgian-turkish-approach%25E1%2583%2590%2F||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”3252″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Bennett Clifford” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 2 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties, writing analytical papers.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Bennett is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA), where he received highest honors in Politics and International Affairs and the Study of Religions. He will begin an MA degree in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in September 2018.
Previously, Bennett was an International Fellow at the Caucasus Research Resource Center- Georgia. He has additionally held positions at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS). His research interests include terrorism, violent non-state actors, sub-state conflict, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, with a focus on the Caucasus region[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Bennett’s blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Finterns-blog%2Fbennett-clifford%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Bennett’s article – DRIVERS OF VIOLENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN THE CAUCASUS AS A RESULT OF THE CONFLICTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ: NORTH CAUCASUS, GEORGIA, AND AZERBAIJAN” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fregional-dialogue.com%2Fen%2Fdrivers-of-violent-religious-extremism-in-the-caucasus-as-a-result-of-the-conflicts-in-syria-and-iraq-north-caucasus-georgia-and-azerbaijan%2F||target:%20_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1970″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://caucasianhouse.ge/en/category/ivan-chikalo/”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Ivan Chikalo” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Fivan-chikalo%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 3 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
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Ivan has a large academic background in political science, international relations, and peace studies. He has a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from the American University in Bulgaria. He currently doing his M.Phil. International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). In addition, he participated in CIFRU (Centre International Francophone de Rencontres Universitaires), Dijon, France, which was a socio-cultural programme for the international students. Finally, he obtained a diploma from the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). He successfully applies the academic knowledge while being an intern for the Caucasian House.
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Ivan’s Blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Fivan-chikalo%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ivan’s Article – Breaking the Illusion: Adaptation to the new political realities: Ukraine borrowing the Georgian experience” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fregional-dialogue.com%2Fen%2Farticles%2Fanalytics%2Fbreaking-illusions%2F||target:%20_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1997″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://caucasianhouse.ge/en/category/aureja-jutelyte/”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Aurėja Jutelytė” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Faureja-jutelyte%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 3 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties, writing analytical articles.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Aurėja is a student of political science at Institute of International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius University, Lithuania. Since it’s her last year, she is also working on her bachelor thesis related to minority rights and collective memory. As an international student at Eötvös Loránd University with the specialization of nationalism Aurėja spent her last autumn semester in Budapest, Hungary. In Tbilisi she studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi state university.
She is currently working on the project„ Developing Women Social and Economic Activities in Georgia: the Case of Pankisi Valley and Akhalgori.“ Her academic interests are nationalism, minorities, development of the Baltic States, the studies of post-soviet space.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Aurėja’s Blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Faureja-jutelyte%2F||target:%20_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2930″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://caucasianhouse.ge/en/category/anne-hardt/”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Anne Hardt” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Fanne-hardt%2F||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 4 weeks
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
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Interested in the intersection between conflict and culture, especially in the post-Soviet space, Anne Hardt currently is part of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Public Policy. Finalizing her first year at Central European University in Budapest she will finish her degree at the Institut Barcelona d’ Estudis Internacionals next year.
Previously, after two years of classical singing in the Netherlands until 2013, Anne graduated in Social Sciences with a focus on International Relations and East-West issues in her hometown Cologne in 2015. Among others she has worked with the Lew Kopelew Forum, UN Women, UN OCHA, the Human Rights Initiative at CEU, the WageIndicator Foundation, the Alumni Society of the German-Russian Youth Parliament and the Caucasian House
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”See Anne’s Blog” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcaucasianhouse.ge%2Fen%2Fcategory%2Fanne-hardt%2F||target:%20_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2041″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Anne Nietschmann” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 4 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
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Anne Nietschmann finished her Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Russian Studies at Potsdam University and spent one semester in Irkutsk. In the frames of the MA program East European studies with focus on Economics at the Free University in Berlin, she is currently studying for one semester at the Faculty of Economics at State University Saint Petersburg. From March to June 2014 she did 4 months internship in the Caucasian House in Tbilisi. She participated in the shooting of a documentary about the conflict with South Ossetia and wrote several articles on the relations of Germany and Georgia/Ukraine/Russia.
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The Political Response of Germany to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fregional-dialogue.com%2Fen%2Farticles%2F%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B8%25D1%2587%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9-%25D0%25BE%25D1%2582%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B5%25D1%2582-%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B8-%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0-%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%2F|title:The%20Political%20Response%20of%20Germany%20to%20the%20Annexation%20of%20Crimea%20by%20the%20Russian%20Federation|target:%20_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Интересы Германии на Южном Кавказе” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fregional-dialogue.com%2Farticles%2F%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B5-%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%2587%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BD-%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BD%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D1%258B-%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B8-%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0-%25D1%258E%25D0%25B6%25D0%25BD%2F||target:%20_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2045″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Mariam Shuman” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 2 months
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
Duties: Editing materials in English, helping out with occasional administrative duties.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Mariam did her internship in Caucasian House in April-June 2015. Senior
student of International Black Sea University, Faculty of Social Sciences,
Direction of International Relations. At the same time Mariam was a
member of AIESEC Tbilisi. During June-September of 2014 she was the
Organizing Committee President of one of the departments. She was also
involved in Building the OSCE Youth Network in Georgia, which was
hosted by OSCE informational center in Caucasus.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2306″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Nino Manizhashvili” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”||target:%20_blank”][vc_column_text]Internship Period: 6 weeks
Intern in Peace and Integration Programme
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Nino Manizhashvili is currently junior year student at International Black Sea University, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Direction of International Relations. Nino is doing her internship at “Caucasian House” since November. She is member of EPAG (U.S. Government Exchange Program Alumni Association of Georgia). Nino was representative of Georgia at exchange program at Wake Forest University North Carolina. She has also participated in several EU projects including SilkRoad Research Institute and “University Collaboration Network at the Black Sea- Univer-Sea.Net”. Nino is interested in languages and Diplomacy.
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