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დრო მშვიდობისა გალტუნგი
დრო მშვიდობისა გალტუნგი
ICCN-is samZimari
The ICCN Statement
Responses to ICCN
A Second Day of Infamy: Terrorism in the U.S
A Dark Day in World History: Report of the Day After
mSvidobis mecniereba
Peace Science
sociologiis pikaso da struqturuli Zaladoba
iohan galtungi / saerTaSoriso ganviTareba adamianuri TvalTaxedviT `adamianis
ZiriTadi moTxovnilebebis Teoria~
korneli kakaCia / erovnuli interesis cneba
manana ciramua / postkomunikacia
eka jinoriZe / afxazeTis konfliqtis mogvarebis gzebis ZiebaSi
icxak rabini / sityva warmoTqmuli nobelis premiis gadacemic ceremonialze
giorgi margvelaSvili / niCurta! - me qarTveli var!
gaga niJaraZe / qarTuli kultura: qaluri, mamakacuri, bavSvuri
rati amaRlobeli / Intelligens
Short Summer Summary from a Conflict Prevention Standpoint
Shalva Kedia / GivePeace a Chance, Mr. President
Semoqmedeba, TanagrZnoba, araZaladoba
Creativity, Empathy, Nonviolence
dina houzi / socialurad angaJirebulixelovnebis roli
Dena L. Hawes / The Role of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
Amadeo Vermishveli / Solo Conversation of the Death Squad Member
Tusia Beridze Real vs Ideal
dali berekaSvili / zRaprebi
Tamar berekaSvili / moTxrobebi
Editorial / Irakli Zurab Kakabadze / First War of the Century or a Chance to have
Genuine Peace
irakli kakabaZe / siyvarulis doqtrina saxelmwifoebriv cxovrebaSi
The Statement of the ICCN
ICCN-is samZimari
Letter of ICCN Director to his Colleagues in the United States and around the world
On behalf of the Board and entire staff of ICCN, I want to send you my deepest condolances for
the tragic events that have unfolded in the past 24 hours in the United States. We want to express
our sympathy to the families of all those that have been emotionally and physically wounded by
this inhumane act. The autrocities that we have witnessed via television here in Georgia seem
almost unbelievable, but still we have hope that these horrific events will strengthen us
spiritually, and bring us together in a united fight against terrorist activity. Please believe us that
these feelings are shared by the entire Georgian society.
George Khutsishvili
Director of the International Center on Conflict and Negotiation
“Dear George:
We want to thank for your message of condolence to all of us at the National Peace Foundation.
At a time of nameless faceless violence, it is comforting to receive human messages of
understanding from across the world.
No American could wake on Wednesday morning without the sense that our world has changed.
But it will be important that our nation’s response is measured and careful, without mirroring or
escalating the devastation imposed by terrorists upon the innocent. We will all be working to
assure such a response.
And while none of us has suffered personal losses, none can escape the shock and emptiness
which follows this tragedy. We need to work together to overcome the feelings of alienation and
hopelessness which can result in violence, as we also learn to deal with the world’s changing
realities.
Thank you for reaching out to see us. We hope we can work together for a better future. Our best
wishes to you at ICCN.”
Sarah Harder
President and Stephen Strickland, Chair, National Peace Foundation
“Dear Friends Shiva, Anthony, George, Paul, Jack and Mira - oceans and thousands of miles
away from us, yet so close in our sorrow:
We are grateful to you, our friends, for your words of condolence and also hope, strength,
encouragement and energy. We thank you for sharing our grief with us and all those who are
directly or indirectly affected by this incredible act of inhumanity.
My family, my friends and IMTD are committed more deeply and more intensely than ever to
deal with conflict, to help those who hate, and to rebuild the trust that has been lost in the past
few days.
I will keep this message short so that the internet space is free for those who need it to
communicate with dear ones who need their help.
Thank you again for your kind and loving thoughts and let us continue to work together - we
simply must - there is no alternative.
In deep gratitude for your friendship and support.”
Jan Koehler
Berlin, Germany
“Dear George,
Thank you for sending out the message expressing some thoughts on how the tragic attacks in
the US could happen. It is truly a tremendous shock to have such a massive loss of innocent
human life, wherever this may be in the world. I have been actually surprised by the moderation
in the US press now, after this horrible tragedy, that people are not generally calling for
indiscriminate vengeance, and that even in such circumstances, people express concern that it
does not lead to the suffering of other innocent civilians elsewhere in the world, and that it
should be absolutely clear who the perpetrators are before any action is taken, etc. There have
also been many calls not to blame particular ethnic groups and that any
actions /attacks against such communities will be strictly dealt with and stopped. I think this
points a lot to the strength of the society and the true commitment to fairness and democratic
values that most Americans have - even in such horrific circumstances.”
Lara Olson
Collaborative for Development Action, Cambrridge, Massachussets, USA
Chomsky Note…
Today’s attacks were major atrocities. In terms of number of victims they do not reach the level
of many others, for example, Clinton’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext,
destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and probably killing tens of thousands of people, (no
one knows, because the US blocked an inquiry at the UN and no one cares to pursue it). Not to
speak of much worse cases, which easily come to mind. But that this week a horrendous crime in
not in doubt. The primary victims, as usual, were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen,
etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians and other poor and oppressed
people. It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for
undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.
The events reveal, dramatically, the foolishness of ideas about “missile defense”. As has been
obvious all along, and pointed out repeatably by strategic analysts, if anyone wants to cause
immense damage in the US, including weapons of mass destruction, they are highly unlikely to
launch a missile attack, thus guaranteeing their immediate destruction.
There are innumerable easier ways that are basically unstoppable. But today’s events will,
nonetheless, be used to increase the pressure to develop these systems and put them into place.
“Defense” is a thin cover for plans for militariation of space, and with good PR, even the
flimsiest arguments will carry some weight among a frightened public. In short, the crime is a
gift to the hard jingoist right, those who hope to use force to control their domains. That is even
putting aside the likely US actions, and what they will trigger - possibly more attacks like this
one, or worse. The prospects ahead are even more ominous than they appeared to be before the
latest atrocities.
Noam Chomsky
MIT, Dr. of Linguistics and Political Philosophy, USA
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are occasions of great significance.
They are opportunities for you to feel inside, to find those parts of yourself that are in fear, and to
make the decision to move forward in your life without fear. That is the challenge for each
individual on this planet today. The pursuit of external power - the ability to manipulate and
control - creates only violence and destruction. The painful events in New York and Washington
are living examples of that reality.
The causal chain that created this violence is one in which compassion and wisdom are absent.
Are wisdom and compassion present in you as you watch television, and read the papers? It is
important to realize that you do not know all that came to conclusion, or into karmic balance, as
a result of these events. Because you are not able to know all that can be known about them, you
are not in a position to judge them.
When you are able to look at the events of the Earth School from this perspective, you will see
clearly the central importance of the role that you play in it. That role is this: It is for you to
decide what you will contribute to this world. Many will be asking your opinion of these events.
Each question is an opportunity for you to contribute to the love that is in the world or to the fear
that is in the world. This is the same opportunity that presents itself to you at each moment.
If you hate those who hate, you become like them. You add to the violence and the destructive
energy that now fills our world. As you make the decision to see that those who committed these
acts of violence were in extreme pain themselves, and that they were fueled by the violent parts
of ourselves—the parts that judge without mercy, strike in anger, and rejoice in the suffering of
others. They were our proxy representatives. If you can look with compassion upon those who
have suffered and those who have committed acts of cruelty alike, then you will see that all are
suffering. The remedy for suffering is not to inflict more suffering.
This is an opportunity for a massive expression of compassion. It is also an opportunity for a
massive expression of revenge. Which world do you intend to live in— a world of revenge or a
world of compassion?
The awesome cruelty of a doomed people
By Robert Fisk
So it has come to this. The entire modern history of the Middle East - the collapse of the
Ottoman empire, the Balfour declaration, Lawrence of Arabia’s lies, the Arab revolt, the
foundation of the state of Israel, four Arab-Israeli wars and the 34 years of Israel’s brutal
occupation of Arab land - all erased within hours as those who claim to represent a crushed,
humiliated population struck back with the wickedness and awesome cruelty of a doomed
people. Is it fair - is it moral - to write this so soon, without proof, without a shred of evidence,
when the last act of barbarism in Oklahoma turned out to be the work of home-grown
Americans? I fear it is. America is at war and, unless I am grotesquely mistaken, many thousands
more are now scheduled to die in the Middle East, perhaps in America too. Some of us warned
of “the explosion to come’’. But we never dreamed this nightmare.
And yes, Osama bin Laden comes to mind, his money, his theology, his frightening dedication to
destroy American power. I have sat in front of bin Laden as he described how his men helped to
destroy the Russian army in Afghanistan and thus the Soviet Union. Their boundless confidence
allowed them to declare war on America. But this is not the war of democracy vs terror that the
world will be asked to believe in the coming hours and days. It is also about American missiles
smashing into Palestinian homes and US helicopters firing missiles into a Lebanese ambulance
in 1996 and American shells crashing into a village called Qana a few days later and about a
Lebanese militia - paid and uniformed by America’s Israeli ally - hacking and raping and
murdering their way through refugee camps.
No, there is no doubting the utter, indescribable evil of what has happened in the United States.
That Palestinians could celebrate the massacre of 20,000, perhaps 35,000 innocent people is not
only a symbol of their despair but of their political immaturity, of their failure to grasp what they
had always been accusing their Israeli enemies of doing: acting disproportionately. But we were
warned. All the years of rhetoric, all the promises to strike at the heart of America, to cut off the
head of “the American snake’’ we took for empty threats. How could a backward, conservative,
undemocratic and corrupt group of regimes and small, violent organizations fulfil such
preposterous promises? Now we know.
And in the hours that followed yesterday’s annihilation, I began to remember those other
extraordinary, unbelievable assaults upon the US and its allies, miniature now by comparison
with yesterdays’ casualties. Did not the suicide bombers who killed 241 American servicemen
and almost 100 French paratroops in Beirut on 23 October 1983, time their attacks with
unthinkable precision?
It was just 7 seconds between the Marine bombing and the destruction of the French three miles
away. Then there were the attacks on US bases in Saudi Arabia, and last year’s attempt - almost
successful it now turns out - to sink the USS Cole in Aiden. And then how easy was our failure
to recognize the new weapon of the Middle East which neither Americans or any other
Westerners could equal: the despair-driven, desperate suicide bomber.
All America’s power, wealth - and arrogance, the Arabs will be saying - could not defend the
greatest power the world has ever known from this destruction.
For journalists, even those who have literally walked through the blood of the Middle East,
words dry up here. Awesome, terrible, unspeakable, unforgivable; in the coming days, these
words will become water in the desert. And there will be, naturally and inevitably, and quite
immorally, an attempt to obscure the historical wrongs and the blood and the injustices that lie
behind yesterday’s firestorms. We will be told about “mindless terrorism’’, the “mindless” bit
being essential if we are not to realise how hated America has become in the land of the birth of
three great religions.
Ask an Arab how he responds to 20 or 30 thousand innocent deaths and he or she will respond as
good and decent people should, that it is an unspeakable crime. But they will ask why we did not
use such words about the sanctions that have destroyed the lives of perhaps half a million
children in Iraq, why we did not rage about the 17,500 civilians killed in Israel’s 1982 invasion
of Lebanon, why we allowed one nation in the Middle East to ignore UN Security Council
resolutions but bombed and sanctioned all others who did. And those basic reasons why the
Middle East caught fire last September - the Israeli occupation of Arab land, the dispossession of
Palestinians, the bombardments and state sponsored executions, the Israeli tortures ... all these
must be obscured lest they provide the smallest fractional reason for yesterday’s mass savagery.
No, Israel was not to blame - that we can be sure that Saddam Hussein and the other grotesque
dictators will claim so - but the malign influence of history and our share in its burden must
surely stand in the dark with the suicide bombers. Our broken promises, perhaps even our
destruction of the Ottoman Empire, led inevitably to this tragedy. America has bankrolled
Israel’s wars for so many years that it believed this would be cost-free. No longer so. It would be
an act of extraordinary courage and wisdom if the United States was to pause for a moment and
reflect upon its role in the world, the indifference of its government to the suffering of Arabs, the
indolence of its current president.
But of course, the United States will want to strike back against “world terror’’, who can blame
them? Indeed, who could ever point the finger at Americans now for using that pejorative and
sometimes racist word “terrorism’’? There will be those swift to condemn any suggestion that
we should look for real historical reasons for an act of violence on this world-war scale. But
unless we do so, then we are facing a conflict the like of which we have not seen since Hitler’s
death and the surrender of Japan. Korea, Vietnam, is beginning to fade away in comparison.
Eight years ago, I helped to make a television series that tried to explain why so many Muslims
had come to hate the West. Last night, I remembered some of those Muslims in that film, their
families burnt by American-made bombs and weapons. They talked about how no one would
help them but God. Theology vs technology, the suicide bomber against the nuclear power. Now
we have learnt what this means.
Dennis J. D. Sandole
George Mason University, Virginia, USA
The U.S. has become a symbol for many of what is wrong in the world; e.g., conflict in the
Middle East, globalization, destruction of the environment. There is only one "Great Satan" and
we are it! Indeed, if the U.S. did not exist, it would probably have to be invented as the world's
primary bogey man.
Although we are not sure who sent hijacked planes careening into the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, it is clear that the U.S. has recently been making lots of people angry: for opting
out of Kyoto, resisting attempts to control the spread of small arms, building a missile shield in
contravention of the 1972 ABM Treaty and most recently, undermining the prospects for success
of the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, by walking out on it.
The culprits of yesterday's terrorism may not be those directly affected by these acts of American
unilateralism; e.g., Palestinians or other marginalized groups, anti-globalization people, or
others. Instead, as implied in the article run in The Washington Post on 2 September, about the
Wexelblat Disaster, they may constitute "the secondary effect": those who are bothered by, or
otherwise capitalize on others being affected directly by U.S. actions.
A major implication is that, in addition to finding the culprits and preserving life in the short
term, the U.S. should focus on solving the problems worldwide for which it is -- rightly or
wrongly -- held responsible. Rather than disengage from global problems, or deal with only
some in a partisan manner, the U.S. should use the great leadership potential inherent in its
superpower status to work with others in global problemsolving in a fair and just way.
For those who would declare that it would be prohibitively expensive for the U.S. to do this, I
would say that if the events of yesterday showed us anything, they demonstrated the near total
bankruptcy of the missile defense idea as well as the immeasurable costs of dealing with the
aftermath of the scale of
yesterday's paralyzing attacks.
Don't forget missile defense, but prioritize it in relation to more "technologically viable" threats
and in the process, enhance positive relations with the Russians and Chinese and, with the
resources spared the black hole of ideologically-based investment in missile defense and perhaps
new arms races, focus on solving other problems for which we are taking the rap.
By Dena L. Hawes
Visiting Fellow, ICCN
The September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC have been
portrayed as the worst in US history, and the event is being compared by many to that of Pearl
Harbor. Thousands of people have died, including hundreds of police, firefighters and rescue
personnel who were buried in the rubble when the North and South towers of the World Trade
Center collapsed, an hour after being hit by two hijacked planes.
President Bush, who, that morning, had been scheduled to fly from Florida to Washington, DC
was instead shuttled to a nuclear fallout center in Nebraska where he made a public address
saying that these “acts of mass murder were intended to frighten Americans into chaos and
retreat”, but that we will not retreat, and those responsible for the attacks will be “hunted down
and punished”. Hours later, the American people and the whole world were struggling to take it
all in.
New York’s financial district stood in shambles after the collapsed of the World Trade Center, a
symbol of global trade for the world. There is great risk around the instability of surrounding
buildings and secondary fires occurring in lower Manhattan. The forty-seven story Salomon
brothers building located next to the World Trade Center also collapsed, as well as a neighboring
hotel. The attack couldn’t have happened at a worse time for the world economy. Economists
had been predicting a slow down in the US economy, and now there is global fear that the events
of September 11th will bring on a full-blown economic recession, that will significantly effect
the world at large. It appears as though the world economy is holding its breath, waiting to see
how quickly the US can restore confidence.
Shortly after the Trade Center attack, part of the Pentagon, headquarters for the US armed forces,
was badly damaged by another hi-jacked plane explosion, and the fire caused by the explosion
raged on for hours. Regarding the fallout of so much tragedy BBC correspondent Rob Watson
concisely stated that “the Fortress US had been breached and the American people are
shocked...”
The talk circulating all around the world is about who master-minded such a well orchestrated
and de-mobilizing attack on the two major power centers of the US and the world? Fingers were
immediately pointed at the well financed Osama bin Laden, and at Islamic terrorist groups in
general. bin Laden, who has expressed a vehement hatred towards the US, has eluded security
and surveillance forces for years. He made a video taped address saying that he was not involved
in the terrorist attack, but that he supported the attack as it “constitutes a reaction of the
oppressed people against the hands of the cruel.”
In response to the events of September 11, Robert Jensen wrote about incidents of cruelty that
happened at the hands of the US—events that he views as acts of terrorism. His writings bring
out the tit for tat relationship that the US has created with much of the third world. For instance,
when the US tried to strike out at Osama bin Laden by bombing the vaccine manufacturing
company in Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden’s believed involvement in the bombings of US
Embassies in Africa. So the US bombed the one factory in central Africa that was manufacturing
critical vaccines for the children of that impoverished area. That bombing destroyed the factory
and killed thousands of innocent people, among them were a few of bin Laden’s Muslim
followers. Months later, the US realized that they hit the wrong target.
As Jenson wrote: “The deliberate killing of civilians for political purposes—that the US
government has committed during my lifetime…The list of countries and people who have felt
the violence of this country is long. For more than five decades throughout the Third World, the
United States has deliberately targeted civilians or engaged in violence so indiscriminate that
there is no other way to understand it except as terrorism...Vietnamese civilians bombed by the
United States. Timorese civilians killed by a U.S. proxy army of terrorists. Iraqi civilians killed
by the deliberate bombing of an entire country’s infrastructure. So my anger on this day is
directed not only at individuals who engineered the September 11 tragedy, but at those who have
held power in the United States and have engineered attacks on civilians every bit as tragic”.
In terms of who is responsible, it was pointed out in the news this morning that it would be more
constructive to look at the possibility of a wider and more varied group of terrorists, rather than
just focusing on bin Laden and Islamic terrorist groups in general. An operation of this
sophistication and magnitude would seem to be the work of highly connected people who are
privy to sophisticated systems of intelligence, and extremely well informed on US security
procedures. Many feel that bin Laden and Islamic terrorists alone could not of pulled off such a
well orchestrated attack without help from higher powers of knowledge on intelligence and
security.
Also, regarding the comparison of the September 11th terrorist attack to the Pearl Harbor attack
in 1942. This analogy could be dangerous, particularly in its potential impact on perceptions and
world views. Remembering the suspicion and anger that were waged against the Japanese-
Americans, who, after the attack of Pearl Harbor, were forced to leave their homes and property.
They were unwillfully sentenced by official authority to live internment camps, where they were
detained for years. Negative stereotypes and warped perceptions of the Japanese, their culture
and traditions, persisted for decades after the Pearl Harbor incident. Comparing this event to
Pearl Harbor could create a heightening of the already festering intolerance of Middle Eastern
and Muslim people that is very present and real in the US, due largely to ignorance and
misunderstanding.
President Bush has called the attacks on America’s Eastern Sea Board as “act of war”. NATO
has enacted article 5, viewing the attack on the US as an attack on all members of NATO. As the
US and its allies discuss their retaliation plan, and hunt for those to retaliate against, it’s not too
early for the global community to ask ourselves: what lessons can be learned here? Perhaps
somewhere along the path towards seeking truth and justice for this horrific incident, we can
begin to look much more deeply into the type of relationships that the Western World has with
the Arab and Muslim World. As long as the US continues to engage their troops in the Middle
East and helps to support the escalated violence there, and as long as the US continues to back
torrent regimes, these types of terrorist attacks will, most likely, persist. Perhaps the West needs
to start thinking about ways to begin forging a different type of relationship with the Middle
East, including generating ideas on how the US could adopt more enlightened policies around
Arab and Muslim issues.
This suggestion could be seen as a long-term project, intended to help reduce misunderstandings
and misperceptions that can and has lead to conflict and violent action. Educational institutions
and awareness raising organizations could play a leading role in assisting the general public in
gaining a greater understanding of the Muslim religion and Islamic tradition and world views,
and how the paradigmatic differences between Western culture and Islamic culture can fuel
intolerance, hatred and violence on all sides. Terrorists need to be differentiated from the whole
of the Islamic population. It needs to be understood that terrorist activities reflect a small part of
what is happening in certain parts of the world, and does not represent the vision of Muslim
religion or reflect on the whole of Islamic culture. And lastly, the mechanism, finance and
support of all terrorism needs to be effectively fought against and eliminated.
As I write, there are people who have survived the collapse of the 115 story World Trade Center
towers, and who are being rescued from the rubble. Amidst this horrific event of contemporary
world history, they symbolize for me an act of hope, extraordinary human survival, and the
many, many lessons that need to be learned.
mSvidobis mecniereba
Peace Science
It has been about 40 years since Dr. Johan Galtung, one of the premier theorists of Peace
Research founded a journal of Peace Research. Since then, Peace Science has made significant
progress. The writings of Johan Galtung, John Burton, Louise Diamond, Dennis J. Sandole,
Christopher Mitchell, Mary Clarke, Richard Rubenstein, Howon Jeong, Michelle LeBaron and
many other visionary social scientists have given us new options, and helped us to think beyond
the narrow boundaries of power politics and so called “Realpolitik”. The science of peace is an
eclectic collection of different social and natural sciences. In our first two issues we have
published the works of some of the most distinguished peace researches, such John Burton and
Johan Galtung. We will continue to publish the works of different authors in search for new
paradigms that will enable the reader to think beyond violence. We believe that humanity is not
condemned to violence, and that there are always non-violent, constructive alternatives. On a
structural and cultural level we can explore such alternatives through creativity. Considering how
many instruments of destruction and war have manifested through previous centuries, we feel
that humankind will not survive unless we are willing to explore a variety creative alternatives.
In the Peace Science section, we are publishing a variety of perspectives on the topic of conflict
resolution and peacebuilding. We feel that a range of opinions and approaches are necessary to
build the foundation for positive peace. Here, the writings speak of peace that exists without
structural and cultural violence—peace that would enable us to improve so many aspects of our
lives. Perhaps, these efforts can help to forge a space for humanity to think about such important
things as harmony and happiness for all living beings. This is our first bilingual version, and we
hope you will enjoy this selection of readings.
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studentTa jgufTan erTad Camovida sabWoTa kavSirSi da bedis wyalobiT gaxda
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samSobloSi, gorSi Sexvda da misive mogonebebiT es dauviwyari momentia misi
cxovrebidan. amis Semdeg galtungi saqarTveloSi Camodis 1997 wlis ivnisSi,
rodesac Tbilisis saxelmwifo universitetSi karl gustav iakobsenTan erTad
marTavs ramdenime leqcias saerTaSoriso urTierTobaTa fakultetze. galtungis
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msofliodan unda Camovidnen mSvidobis mesveurni da erToblivad SeimuSavon xedva
“pozitiuri mSvidobisa”. pozitiuri mSvidoba iohan galtungis terminia, romelic
mxolod Zaladobis ararsebobas ki ar niSnavs, aramed realur mSvidobian
Tanacxovrebas, romelic emyareba samarTlianobis princips. am ideis
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fondi. mesamed galtungi saqarTvelos ewvia 2001 wlis martSi, rodesac
gaerTianebuli erebis ofisSi gamarTa leqcia mSvidobis damkvidrebis “transcendis
meTodis” Sesaxeb.
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mniSvnelovani koncefciisa. maTSi gamosarCevia “struqturuli da kulturuli
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mniSvnelovani Zvra moaxdina. am Teoriis Tanaxmad, pirdapiri Zaladoba aris
yovelTvis Sedegi struqturuli Zaladobisa, romelic gamoixateba sazogadoebriv
sistemaSi Cadebuli ierarqiuli momentebiTa da sxvadasxva saxis dominaciis
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rangis SemTxvevaSi Cven saqme gvaqvs struqturul ZaladobasTan. dazaveba da
uTanxmoebis daregulireba problemis gadaWras ar niSnavs. aq saWiroa konfliqturi
situaciis Zireuli transformacia, rac Tavis TavSi moicavs struqturuli da
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sWirdeba didi Sroma da agreTve metad araordinaruli SemoqmedebiTi azrovneba.
TviT galtungi am SemoqmdebiTi azrovnebiT metad dajildovebuli pirovnebaa da
amitomac mas am dargSi ukve didi xania rac socialur mecnierebaTa pikasos
uwodeben.
iohan galtungi
yvelaferi, rac am qveTavSi iTqva erTi faqtis maCvenebelia: miuxedavad imisa, rom
Cven ar gvinda “moTxovnilebis~ gansazRvrebis mkacr CarCoebSi moqceva, es termini
Tavisuflad ar unda gamoiyenebodes. es gamoiwvevs `moTxovnilebis~ gansazRvris
prob-lemas, radgan individs Tavad ar SeuZlia moTxovnilebis gansazRvra. bolos
gvinda aRvniSnoT, rom moTxovnilebebSi vgulisxmobT ZiriTad adamianur
moTxovnilebebs, radgan ‘moTxovnilebebi~ aris (1) `adamianuri~ da (2) `ZiriTadi~.
cxrili 1.1
cxrili 1.2
adamianis ZiriTadi moTxovnilebebis sia: moqmedi hipoTeza
pirvel punqtze pasuxis gacema sakmaod advilia: universaluri siebis Ziebis magivrad
moxdes konkretuli siebis Zebna. saukeTeso saSualeba iqneba konkretuli individis
moTxovnilebebis siis Zieba mocemul drosa da adgilze. Tumca, unda aRiniSnos, rom
yovel mocemul kulturaSi SeiniSneba individTa moTxovnilebebis garkveuli
erToblioba drosa da sivrceSi.
sakvebis moTxovnileba aris procesi, romelsac arc dasawyisi aqvs, arc dasasruli;
es aris dakmayofilebisa da daukmayofileb-lobis procesi, romelsac droSi
araTanabari ritmi aqvs, es procesi ar Cerdeba da winaaRmdegobebs moicavs. “sakvebis
moTxovnileba~ ganxilul unda iqnes, rogorc ufro kompleqsuri moTxovnilebis
gamoxatuleba. Tezisi SemdegSi mdgomareobs: nebismier moTxovni-lebaSi arsebobs misi
uaryofis elementi.
pirvel rigSi, unda aRiniSnos, rom zogadad adamiani (Tu mas specialuri treiningi
ar aqvs gavlili) ver aRiqvams situacias moTxovnilebebisa da misi
damakmayofilebeli saSualebebis saxiT. problema mdgomareobs SemdegSi: ra xdeba,
rodesac analitikosi yofs kargad an cudad arsebobis gamocdilebas konkretul
moTxovnilebebad, iyenebs mas adamianis Sesaxeb warmodgenis gamosaxatad
moTxovnilebaTa siis saxiT, Semdeg avrcelebs am warmodgenebs xalxSi, xolo es
ukanasknelni maT iTaviseben.
analitikur da holistikur warmodgenebad dayofa ar gulisxmobs alternativebis
Tanmimdevrul dayofas or nawilad (diqotomia); es problema SeiZleba mTlianobaSi
ganvixiloT. problema imaSi ar mdgomareobs, rom unda aRmoifxvras analitikuri
azrovneba am sferoSi, ubralod unda moxdes holistikuri azrovnebis danergva.
vertikaloba
amis ukan dgas ara mxolod adamianebis rangebad dayofa, aramed _ kulturuli
norma, romelic mosaxleobas amisken ubiZgebs. niSnavs Tu ara es, rom dasavlur
konteqstSi Cven unda vilaparakoT ara mxolod imaze, rom viRacaze ukeTesni viyoT,
aramed imazec, rom viRacaze meti gvqondes?
individualizmi
mosazreba imis Sesaxeb, rom moTxovnilebaTa subieqti mxolod adamiania, xazs usvams
ara marto adamianTa erTobliobas, romlebic moTxovnilebaTa logikuri subieqtebi
arian; bunebis meore mxares arsebobs sxva sazRvaric. buneba _ cxovelebi, mcenareebi
da sxva arsebebi _ ar ganixileba, rogorc moTxovnilebebis mqone subieqti.
dasavluri tradicia bunebas sulierebas ar aniWebs; is asulierebs mxolod adamians,
rac am TeoriaSi dasavlurobidan nasesxeb elementad gvevlineba, romelic kritikasa
da garkveul modifikacias SeiZleba daeqvemdebaros.
cxrili 1.3
moTxovnilebaTa dakmayofilebis done: hipoTeza
yvelaze Zlieri mxare aris is, rom “adamianis ZiriTadi moTxovnilebebis midgoma~
cdilobs garkveuli prioritetebis gamoyofas. `adamianis ZiriTadi moTxovnilebebis
midgoma~ aris mcdeloba, yuradReba mieqces fundamentur sakiTxebs da sazoga-doebaSi
Ratakebisa da ubeduri adamianebis mimarT interesi gaCndes. raskinis wignidan
moviyvanT Semdeg frazas: ‘miTxari materialurad gaWirvebuli da sulierad ubeduri
adamianebis raodenoba sazogadoebis qveda fenaSi da getyvi, rogor sazogadoebaSi
cxovrob~. Tu Cven gaviTvaliswinebT gaWirvebuli da tanjvaSi myofi adamianebis
raodenobas, SevZlebT prioritetebis pirdapir dasaxvas.
cxrili 1.4
moTxovnilebebis gamokvlevis empiriuli meTodebi
es oTxi midgoma socialuri praqtikis formadac SeiZleba ganvixiloT. dialogis
msvlelobaSi adamianebi erTmaneTs exmarebian da aSkaravdeba maTi realuri
moTxovnilebebi _ aSkara-gacnobie-rebuli Tu faruli-gaucnobierebeli _ raSic
igulisxmeba is, ris gareSec maT cxovreba ar SeuZliaT.
korneli kakaCia
`Cven ara gvyavs mudmivi mtrebi da arc mudmivi mokavSireebi. mxolod Cveni
interesebia mudmivi da Cveni movaleobaa mivyveT am interesebs~
lordi palmerstoni
maS ra aris erovnuli interesi da vin unda gasazRvros igi? ra faqtorebma unda
iTamaSon gadamwyveti roli misi gansazRvrisas? msoflioSi arsebuli 190
saxelmwifos swored es sakiTxebi aqvs gadasawyveti. sxvadasxva individebs sxvadasxva
pasuxebi gaaCniaT am SekiTxvaze.
arsebobs mosazreba, rom ekonomikuri kriteriumi aris erovnuli interesis
amosavali wertili da nebismieri politika, romelic aZlierebs saxelmwifos
ekonomikur mdgomareobas, swored erovnuli interesebiT aris ganpirobebuli.
saxelmwifos savaWro balansis gaumjobeseba, misi industriuli bazis gaZliereba,
mis sargeblobaSi energomatareblebisa da bunebrivi gazis arseboba - ai, swored es
warmoadgens erovnul interess. Tumca, rogorc praqtika adasturebs, xSirad
ekonomikuri kriteriumi winaaRmdegobaSi modis sxva kriteriumebTan. MmagaliTisTvis,
unda gaagrZelos Tu ara erTma saxelmwifom vaWroba meore saxelmwifosTan, Tu es
saxelmwifo am resursebs iyenebs sxva saxelmwifoTa teritoriebis dasapyrobad?
3. Hans Morgenthau. ,,Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 5th ed.New
York Tavi 3. 1973
4. Richard Mansbach. The Global Puzzle. Hougton Mifflin Company. 2000 p.81
postkomunikacia
manana ciramua
1. dasavluri;
2. islamuri;
3. konfuciuri;
4. iaponuri;
5. induisturi;
6. marTlmadideblur-slavuri.
“Cven kacTa mogvca qveyana, gvaqvs uTvalavi feriTa”, ase rom, rusuli azri
gansxvavdeba dasavlurisagan. magram demokratia xom `Ria wignia”, igi
gadawyvetilebaTa miRebis procesSi mravalTa monawileobas gulisxmobs, SedarebiT
Ria sistemaa. xalxis rCeulni da ara xeldasxmuli mefeni qmnian kanonebs, raTa
kanonma am xalxis neba gamoxatos. es xdeba saxelmwifoTa doneze, xolo
saerTaSoriso doneze xalxis rCeulTa rCeulni adgenen saerTaSoriso normebs. am
Teoriis mixedviT yvelas aqvs miniWebuli ufleba gaakeTos arCevani, moixados
moqalaqeobrivi vali da pasuxi agos im kanonebze, romelsac mis mier dasaxelebuli
rCeulni missave sasikeTod SeimuSaveben. maT winasaarCevno periodSi mas-mediidan
ukiJineben “Cven ki ara, Tqven, xalxi marTavT qveyanaso”. arCevnebis damTavrebisTanave
molodinTa gacruebis, nihilizmisa Tu cinizmis periodebSi igive mas-mediidan bralsa
sdeben _ “rac erio, is berio” _ “gauTviTcnobiereblobisa da gaunaTleblobisagan
rac TeseT, imas imkiTo”.
Tu nebas momcemT, oriode sityvas Sevawev kanonis uzenaesobas, romelsac erTi cudi
znes Wirs _ anonimuroba. musulmanuri qveynebis uzurpatorebi, diqtatorebi,
huseini iqneba es Tu arafati, aramusulmani pinoCeti Tu lenini, erisa da istoriis
winaSe ageben pasuxs maT qveyanaSi datrialebul av-kargze. stalinsac xotbasTan
erTad kaciWamia wiTel gveleSapad naTlaven. ubedur dedaTa wyevliT iborgeb da
misi neSti saflavSi qristianuli wesiT damarxva rom Rirseboda, magram ra vuyoT
dRevandel upirovno kanonebs? amitom xom ar iwereba dRes leqsebis krebuli “Cemi
deda...” (avtori ar vici). adresati ara Cans. vin daswyevlon dRevandelma dedebma,
vis Seaginos qarTvelma kacma. xalxis saxels amofarebuli anonimebi bolSevikuri
principiT “Êòî íå ñ íàìè, òîò íàø âðàã” - samxedro blokebad erTiandebian da
saerTaSoriso arSiniT zomaven erTa TviTgamorkvevas. amis Sesaxeb iugoslaveli Tu
CeCeni xalxi sisxliT wers istoriis bolo furclebs. “ena, mamuli. sarwmunoeba”
CvenTvis ukve evfemizmad iqca. msoflio standartizaciis meqanizmis bolo WanWikad
qcevaze orientirebulni `axal bolSevizms” veltviT.
henri kisinjeri ambobda: “me vicav demokratias. realurad ar arsebobs Sansi, rom
yvelam erTdroulad miaRwios bednierebas. amitom SevxedoT simarTles TvalebSi”.
magram sxvagvari efeqti aqvs gamorTul televizors. mas SeuZlia ara mxolod mis
win dadgmuli yvavilebis larnaki an Cavlili bavSvis gamosaxuleba aireklos, aramed,
ara aqvs mniSvneloba Cven mas CavrTavT Tu ara, televizia, rogorc damoukidebeli
subieqti “ïàðõàåò ïî ÷åëîâå÷åñêèì ìîçãàì, êàê ñàìîå ñèëüíîå îðóäèå” (mixeil romi) da
anonimTa mier SemuSavebul sazogadoebrivi evoluciis normebs gvinergavs. mas-mediis
anu meoTxe xelisuflebis Zala imdenad STambeWdavia, rom mas verc Tbilisis da
verc ostankinos damwvari telanZebi ver SeaCereben. amas emateba komunikaciaTa axali
teqnologiebi: interneti Tu optikuri kabeli,á romelTa eleqtruli bzuili
dedamiwis brunvis gruxuns etmasneba, Cvens yurs ar esmis, infra-uxilavia da verca
vgrZnobT sad imaleba gorgonas Tavi. anonims upyria eleqtruli sadaveebi.
Jan bodriari wers: “amerikam vietnamis omi waago, holivudma - moigoo”. “ar
iarsebebda erayis omi, rom ara informacia omis Sesaxeb-”o.
eseigi, dRes omebs (iseve, rogorc yovelTvis) ideologia igebs da misi gaSuqebis
wyaroebi mZlavri iaraRebia. xelovnebas ki yvelaze metad ZaluZs adamianTa
cnobierebis gavlenis qveS daqvemdebareba. saqarTveloSi ar Seqmnila am 10 wlis
ganmavlobaSi arcerTi mxatvruli nawarmoebi, romelsac Tavisuflebis mopovebis
sixaruli, sakuTar ZalTa rwmena, aRmSeneblobis paTosi moetana.
erTiani strategiis deklarirebiT, dRes sityva “erovnuli” msoflio masStabSi
agresiis matareblad iqca. metalistebi da rokerebi, hipebi da pankebi
individualobis gamosaxatavad gamomwvev, garegnulad vulgarul formebs irCeven,
magram maTi gamosvlebi agresiad ar iTvleba, vinaidan revoluciaSi gadasvlis
safrTxes ar warmoadgenen. maTi cxovrebiseuli filosofia did masStabebs ver
wvdeba da Tanac energiisgan daclis advilad samarTavi formebi gaaCnia _ xmauriani
diskoTekebi, alkoholi, narkotikebi da quCis Cxubebi.
kisinjeri upirispirebs ra erTmaneTs sabWoTa wyobas da dasavlur demokratias,
gamoyofs prioritetebs: “stabiluri politikuri struqturebis mqone mTavrobebi ar
mimarTaven revoluciur an avantiuristul sagareo politikas imisaTvis, rom
aRadginon an SeinarCunon Sinauri siwynare”. (“realizmi meoce saukunis
saerTaSoriso urTierTobaTa TeoriaSi”)
noam Comski Tavis wignSi “ra unda sinamdvileSi ankl sems” wers:
maTi erT-erTi yvelaze didi survilia rom hyavdeT pasiuri, morCili mosaxleoba.
aqedan gamomdinare, Cven namdvilad SegviZlia gavakeToT erTi ram maTi mofortis
dasarRvevad. es aris is, rom ar viyoT pasiurni da morCilni. amis gakeTebisaTvis ki
bevri gza arsebobs.”
eka jinoriZe
realpolitika amtkicebs, rom adamianis buneba borotia, igi codvis Svilia da mas
ar ZaluZs iyos keTili. mxolod mcireoden procents SeuZlia iyos keTili. amitom
adamianma ZaliT unda moipovos adgili sociumSi da mis Zlierebazea damokidebuli,
Tu ra ierarqiaSi moxvdeba igi. (cnobisaTvis ixileT hans morgenTaus, jorj kenanis,
henri kisinjeris nawerebi. red.)
meore Sexeduleba, ufro idealisturi ki amtkicebs, rom Tumca adamianSi arsebobs
winaaRmdegobebi, magram adamians aqvs arCevani da ZaluZs miiRos gadawyvetileba
sikeTis sasargeblod. adamians aqvs Sansi, rom mouyaros Tavi erTad sakacobrio
azrovnebaSi dagrovil pozitiur gamocdilebas da Seqmnas harmoniuli sazogadoeba.
Ted geri Tavis wignSi “ratom janydeba kaci” aRwers molodinebis Teorias,
romelic SesaZleblobebis TeoriasTan paralelurad iZleva adamianis
daukmayofileblobis SegrZnebas.
yvela es kiTxva uaryofiTi pasuxiT mTavrdeba da albaT afxazebs rom dausvaT, verc
gvipasuxeben, Tu ratom xdeba ase.
magram wlebTan erTad unda gamoikveTos is ZiriTadi mimarTuleba, romelic Semdgom
urTierTobebs ganapirobebs. aris mravali mosazreba. bevri Tvlis, rom am sakiTxis
mogvareba Zalismieri meTodebis gareSe SeuZlebelia. bevrs omis Wrilobebic ar
moSuSebia da SurisZiebis Jini, Tavganwirva amoZravebs. amis magaliTebia is
partizanuli moZraobebi, romlebic xandaxan dRes-dReobiT kidev gamoyofen xolme
Tavs galis raionSi. (Tumca, aris mosazrebac, rom es partizanuli moZraoba ara
wminda patriotul niadagzea, aramed inspirirebulia isev rusuli Zalebis mier,
raTa diskreditacia gaukeTos saqarTvelos).
zogi Tvlis, rom konfliqtis mogvareba SesaZlebelia mxolod samarTlebrivi gziT,
molaparakebis magidasTan. dRes bevri laparakobs alternatiul politikaze, iqmneba
konfliqtis Semswavleli mecniereba, institutebi, romlebic cdiloben, rom
fokusireba moxdes diplomatiaze, rogorc urTierTobis yvelaze mniSvnelovan
formaze. aseTi politika cdilobs, ar daeqvemdebaros avtoritarul kontrols da
pirvel rigSi gadaWras adamianuri problemebi, uari Tqvas iZulebiT formebze,
represiebze, romlebic adamianebis ganviTarebad miswrafebas didi xniT ver daakaveben.
qarTuli armia aseTi sakiTxebis gadawyvetis dros, ra Tqma unda, kulisebs miRma
rCeba. mas dRes funqcia ar gaaCnia – ar ZaluZs qveynis sazRvrebis gamagreba. xom ar
iqneboda samxedro sakiTxis gadasinjva erT-erTi mniSvnelovani sakiTxi dRevandeli
xelisuf-lebisaTvis? ra rols asrulebs dRes qarTuli jari, ra SeuZlia mas da
saerTod Wirdeba ki aseT patara qveyanas armia Tavdacvis mizniT?
icxak rabini
Tqveno udidebulesobav!
qalbatonebo da batonebo!
qalbatonebo da batonebo!
qalbatonebo da batonebo!
`ufali Zalas Sehmatebs mis xalxs; ufali dalocavs mis xalxs da yvela CvenTagans
mSvidobas mogvivlens.~
giorgi margvelaSvili
albaT, imedi didi saqarTvelos momavlisa, Tavidanve iyo iluziuri, amas dRes bevri
xvdeba, magram ra aris imis mizezi, rac Cven Cveni Tavisagan SevqmeniT meoce saukunis
bolos? rogoria Cveni avadmyofobis furceli? diagnozi da prognozi?
Cvens yofaSi ki, Seusabamoba vlindeba mTel rig plastebsa da doneebze. mokled:
ar undoda, magram Sedegad miiRo, kaci bavSvis fsiqikiT. kaci, romelsac zrdasruli
adamianis erT-erTi ZiriTadi Tviseba – pasuxismgebloba da socialuri azrovneba ar
gaaCnia. aseTia qarTveli. qarTvels ar eSinia Secdomis daSvebis, cudad moqcevis,
radganac “deda yvelafers apatiebs”. deda jaridanac daixsnis, miliciidanac
gamoiyvans, umaRlesSic moawyobs, uSovnis colsac da samsaxursac – “enacvalos
deda”... ori, ukve Ripiani da ulvaS damSvenebuli kaci laguna veres auzSi
xvancalebs, erTmaneTs wyals awuweben, icinian, mxiaruloben. gegonebaT deda dgas
zeviT da uyurebs, xarobs, moeswro biWebi, pirsaxoci aqvs gadakidebuli xelze da
Tan mzrunvelad, eubneba, “ramazi, besiki, amodiT wylidan, ar gacivdeT”, da Tan
tkbeba sanaxaobiT, isini ki TamaSoben, uxariaT...
am pirobebSi, bunebrivia Zalian mZimdeba klinika da is Sedegi, rac dRes saxezea, ara
marto mosalodneli, aramed gardauvalia. gardauvalia, bavSvs, romelsac aseTi
mSoblebi hyavs, hqondes problemebi zrdasrulobis asakSi, iseve rogorc Cven.
magram, aseT xalxs, Cveulebriv garemo lmobierad eqceva, iseve, rogorc Cvenc –
niCurta – gvapatieT valebi, Cven qarTvelebi varT...
Intelligens
rati amaRlobeli
Summer 2001
It is no secret to anyone that last summer was a very difficult political season for Georgia. Now,
the crisis within the government has deepened. President Shevardnadze has been looking to work
his way out of this crisis, but so far, he has not found any good avenues of escape. The
Parliamentary majority and the Citizens Union party are on the brink of a breakup. The
opposition has united against the ruling party. It is interesting to note that conflicting parties such
as the left wing Socialists and the right wing Traditionalists have been able to find a common
language within the opposing and crippled Georgian Government, but this does not seem to
bring us any constructive or positive vision on how to build a country.
• Firstly, the conflict between the President and the executive branch started when the re-
establishment of the institution of the Prime Minister was proposed in late May. In exchange for
agreeing to this, the opposition demanded to increase the local government’s rights, as well as
for more de-centralization of Georgia’s economic and political system. The President did not
want to go quite so far, and he refused to adopt the changes proposed by the opposition. Finally,
parliament adopted a very controversial law on local self governance and local elections, not
really considering what Tip O’Neil said: “All politics are local”. This controversial decision was
like thrusting a large thorn into the stability of Georgia, since de-centralization is a crucial step
toward solving the problems of the disenfranchised regions. Consequently, during the last nine
years of Shevardnadze’s presidency, regional separatism has been viewed as a continual threat.
As a way to help prevent more potential conflicts, delegating more powers to the regions could
option positive steps. Also important is that opportunities for economic development be
distributed more evenly between the center and the regions. The opposition rightfully pointed
this out, but the governing coalition has not made any compromises on this point.
• Secondly, the problem of the Pankisi Gorge remains a serious threat to peace in Georgia. There
have been a number of high profile people kidnapped and taken to the gorge, and large sums of
money have been demanded for their release. Police seem to be incapable of doing anything with
the criminals. There has been a widespread feeling among the populace that the police force
itself has been involved in these kidnappings. Several of the very painful kidnapping cases have
been resolved with the involvement of young reformers in the executive and legislative branch,
but the problem still remains. Plus, the representatives of the Internal Ministry are practically
robbing their own population, since the police have been stopping bystanders and demanding
money from them for the release of anyone. As a result, many criminals are out of prison, and
many innocent people are in jail. In July, journalist Giorgi Sanaia conducted a number of good
interviews on the topic of Pankisi Gorge on his night show “Ghamis Kurieri”. Giorgi Sanaia was
murdered in late July. His murder has not yet been solved, even though the President has been
bragging about his serious international investigative help, including having the FBI’s
involvement in the investigation. Also, peacefully solving the problem of Pankisi Gorge remains
an outstanding issue for Georgia.
• Justice Minister Saakashvili proposed a law that would verify the origins of the money and the
property acquired by high government officials. There is a group called the “New Georgians”
who have been acquiring money over the past nine years, while also being government members
and public officials. Saakashvili points out that this is clearly a conflict of interest. He points to
different ministers, like Mr. Vano Chkhartishvili, Mr. Kutateladze and others. According to his
information, their wealth, which is indicated by their large, expensive homes and other
properties, greatly exceeds what their official salaries could afford. And he is wondering whether
this creates a bad image for public servants? He should realize that focusing on economic
injustice and other forms of structural violence is essential for helping to prevent violent
conflicts in Georgia.
• Finally, by the end of the summer, Mr. Shevradnadze and his Interior Minister started to talk
about the possibility of a military confrontation with Abkhazia. According to unofficial sources,
there were about 700 to 800 mercenaries brought to the conflict area. Unfortunately, the Russian
Army bases are still in Abkhazia, and everyone understands that they are the main reason for the
horrific violence that occurred on the territory of Abkhazia eight years ago. But instead of
attempting to resolve the problem in a peaceful and political way by beginning direct talks with
the Abkhaz people, (who are not the enemies of Georgian people), some elements in the
Georgian government are trying to justify possible violent action. This kind of action is not
going to benefit either Georgians or Abkhazians. It will benefit only the imperialistic forces that
are interested in keeping control of the entire area.
by Shalva Kedia
Georgian and Chechen forces are getting ready to enter the Abkhaz border!
Unfortunately, these words are heard in the Georgian press and on the streets of Tbilisi, Batumi,
Kutaisi and many other Georgian towns. Anxiety is entering the social consciousness again. We
are reminded of 1990-1993, when this country was ravaged by three civil wars. The first conflict
started in South Ossetia, then in Tbilisi and Zugdidi between supporters of Gamsakhurdia and
Shevardnadze, and finally we came to the Abkhazian tragedy. All of these wars had horrible
consequences for everyone involved. The only groups that benefited from these atrocious acts
were the high communist party apparatchik nomenklatura and their criminal “death squads”
composed of Mkhedrioni and the so-called National Guard. Neither Georgian, nor Abkhaz, nor
Ossetian people desired a war. It was a part of a political adventure. As a result of these wars,
President Shevardnadze consolidated his power. His main opponents, Zviad K. Gamsakhurdia,
Merab Kostava, and Giorgi Chanturia were murdered. Others from the National Liberation
movement were either corrupted or marginalized by a very smart but destructive policy of party
nomenklatura, who turned their class into a so called “New Georgian Bourgeoisie”. Now,
roughly 90 percent of the Georgian economy is controlled by the “Nouvo-Riche” bourgeoisie
and their criminal protectors, while the populace is starving. The rate of unemployment is much
higher then officially indicated by government reports - that is the Soviet style of telling the
truth.
Beginning in 1996, there was a three-year period of time when people felt more optimistic. They
thought that their long aspired change was coming, and finally they would be able to experience
a shift in the cycle of structural violence that the Soviet Feudal system had put them in.
Liberalism started to come into Georgia, with different developmental programs and a number of
NGOs starting to fulfill their role as the builders of civil society. The press started to operate in a
more transparent manner. People also had high hopes for fighting a corrupt nomenklatura
system, and young redformers came to parliament and started to take action. There were also
some young reform-oriented people in the executive branch. Most of the people from the “Death
Squads” were arrested, although the smarter ones managed to build big business empires on the
money that they got from killing innocent people and robbing their own country. Unfortunately,
President Shevardnadze chose to not look in their direction, and the “I know nothing” phrase was
the most convenient way for the leader of Georgia to ignore those criminals.
Civil wars and regional conflicts were temporarily suppressed. The NGO community was
working hard to start a civic dialogue, but we did not get much support or action from the
government. As a result, the Abkhaz as well as Ossetian and other intra-Georgian conflicts
remained frozen in time, waiting to explode. President Shevardnadze’s government did not
address the underlying causes of violent conflicts. Many disenfranchised people that were
extremely unhappy during the Soviet regime remained unhappy, and thousands, if not millions,
were added to their numbers. As a result, by the year 2001, structural problems in the country are
felt hard. Corruption is rampant. There are many ways to deal with this, but unfortunately, there
is not much support or will on the President’s side. Even the Chairman of the Parliament, who
stood by the President in every other critical situation, voiced his anger, declaring that the
country is at the edge of a catastrophe.
Many people in Georgia believe that Mr. Shevardnadze’s family is responsible for many of
Georgia’s outstanding economic, social and political problems. His son- in-law, Mr.
Jokhtaberidze, is the head of one of the largest private companies that owns the cell-phone
company “Magti-GSM”. His nephew, Mr. Nugzar Shevardnadze controls practically all of the
oil movement in Georgia. It is said that hundreds of millions of US dollars in taxes are not
reaching the state budget, because tax officials do not want to reveal Nugzar Shevardnadze’s
operations. Unfortunately, there is no formal investigation into this matter. According to
informed sources from the government and business community, Mr. President’s other in-law;
Guram Akhvlediani, controls many state assets. These clans are largely responsible for the
problems in Georgia’s contemporary economy.
Also, there are many charges against the government. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr.
Kakha Targamadze, is said to be the head of one of the largest organized crime groups that
controls a big industry of drug trafficking, prostitution, and the kidnapping of people. The police
in Georgia are closely tied to the criminal underground “Thief in Law” system. When someone
is kidnapped, the police and the criminals jointly demand ransom money for the missing person,
and if the payment is made, they always manage to return the lost person. It is very significant
that Mr. Targamadze’s kidnapping business has become extremely lucrative, given the
involvement of certain members of the government and Mafia. There are unofficial estimates
that heroin-producing factories in Pankisi Gorge make about $300 million from drugs that are
sold solely in Georgia. Annually, Georgian drug trafficking overall makes about $5 billion.
These are approximate numbers, but no one doubts that there is a huge problem here with the
drug cartel and the internal ministry. A young Georgian journalist, who opened up a dialogue in
the media about the Pankisi Gorge problems, was mercilessly murdered in his own flat, late at
night this past July. The time of his murder was carefully chosen, and a message was given to the
press community: “You do not cross the border line!” But one thing that the Georgian
Government and the Mafia do not realize is that it is impossible to hide the truth—it will always
come out.
It is widely known that the Economics Minister, Mr. Vano Chkhartishvili, is a wealthy person.
Many people talk about his conflict of interest, since he is considered to be one of the owners on
the “United Georgian Bank”, together with thugs like Anton Ingorokva, Zaza Sioridze (who is
also under the public payroll) as well as others. This group of government and corporate officials
are called the “Gurian Mafia”, as they come from the region of Guria, the same place where Mr.
Shevardnadze is from. According to reliable sources, this group has monopolized a variety of
formerly state owned assets, and they are controlling a large part of Georgian economy. Mr.
Chkhartishvili’s huge house has been a topic of discussion with almost every Georgian family.
His salary is not adequate to explain his overall wealth and assets, and naturally, everyone is
suspicious of him and his business dealings.
But these are not the only clans that control the Georgian Economy. As a result of the controlling
few, approximately 90 percent of the population is impoverished, while, at the expense of their
compatriots, a very small percentage of Georgians are extremely wealthy. However, we should
not think that these problems could not be solved. Civil Society could be beneficial in helping to
answer some of these questions. Peaceful development is absolutely essential for the survival of
the fragile democratic achievements that Georgia has made. The problem is that our President
likes to start wars, especially when he is hit with the serious political problems—but the war in
Abkhazia is not going to solve these rampant corruption problems. Moreover, it will re-create the
horrific picture of 1992-1993. Abkhaz and Georgian people do not want to engage in bloodshed.
War is only the desire of some corrupt officials and death squads who want to grab more money
and get more employment opportunities. Instead of war threats, I think our President should
focus on getting the Russian army out of Abkhazia, and then starting a peaceful dialogue with
the Abkhaz people. Abkhaz and Georgians are brothers and sisters, and they do not desire to kill
each other. I believe that when the Russians are out of Abkhazia, there will be much less of a
threat for violence than there is now. We Georgians need to substitute the “Doctrine of
Corruption and Suspicion” with the doctrine of Human understanding, compassion and love.
This is not impossible, and I think it would be wise for Mr. Shevardnadze to give peace a chance,
instead of creating conditions for violence.
Military solutions can never bring positive peace. Positive peace can be achieved by increasing
public participation, expanding the resource pie, and letting the people own their own country.
The Civil Rights of the people, including every ethnic, religious and race entity should be
defended. At the same time, we need to heartily promote the principle of equal opportunity, and
abandon feudal patterns of behavior. This country has the potential to be an example of a state
that is actively building a peaceful and prosperous society. We just need to have the political
will.
One of the starting points for Georgia will be to declare itself a non-military, non-aggressive
state, and to open up a dialogue with Abkhaz people. The South Caucasus region is a beautiful
place, and the main problems this region has are the armies, whether it’s Russian, Persian,
Georgian, Armenian or Azerbaijani. Caucasian people are much better at loving each other than
at killing each other. There are only a few elite clans that seem to prefer to have hate and scarcity
reign, instead of compassion and abundance.
If Georgia is destined to live, the latter should prevail.
The words of Johan Galtung: ‘creativity, empathy, nonviolence’ represent an essential part of
peace building. We believe that creativity is a significant part of the conflict transformation
process, and without a creative approach, we can not overcome the many challenges inherited
after so many centuries of violent conflict. Another Galtungian phrase we could use is
“Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy”. We need to have sound diagnosis to enable us to predict
societal development, in order to develop and foster effective healing techniques. Because of
their frankness, the reader might find some of the materials in this section to be difficult to read.
Please understand that these examples are attempts to make an artistic diagnosis of direct
violence, and to emphasize the structural and cultural aspects of violent action.
In this section we offer short stories, contemporary fairy tales, visual arts installations, and
essays about the arts that challenge the notion of dogmatic perceptions in the arts and sciences.
This is the new field that is filled with mines, but we we feel it is important to risk walking this
field, as overcoming obstacles to peace often requires unleashing the creative spirit. New vision
and new paradigms are needed not just for Georgia and the South Caucasus, but for the world at
large.
You will see the extremely interesting visual arts installation of Nino Chubinishvili and Gio
Sumbadze that was dedicated to the 1999 war in Kosovo. This is a vision of how fashion, color
and design can reflect the feelings of human beings during the period of violence. Dena L.
Hawes presents an interesting overview of the relationship between socially engaged artistic
practices, conflict resolution and social transformation. We hope that you will find our writings
to be informative and evocative, and we extend our graditude for your interest in Peacetimes.
dina houzi
jeimz hilmani
xelovnebis ganmarteba:
aq ganvixilavT domenik mazeaudis “river proeqts – rio grand mdinaris masiuri
gawmenda” - Tu rogor amoaqvs mas ritualis saxiT TveSi erTxel mdinaridan nagavi.
is aRwevs im stadias, roca misi damokidebuleba mdinarisadmi xdeba ufro
mniSvnelovani, vidre Tavdapirveli ekologiuri interesi. es ganapiroba mdinaris
mdgomareobiT gamowveulma misma tkivilma, da ara pragmatulma survilma raime
gawmindos. es wamovida misi moT-xovnilebidan ganekurna mdinare da yofiliyo mis
tkivilTan erTad, magram Semd-gomSi man igrZno, rom mdinaresTan uSualo dialogSi
yofna sakmarisi aRmoCnda. Tumca mravali adamia-nisaTvis amis miReba rogorc xe-
lovnebisa problematuria - siuzi gabliki.
jozef boisi
mel Cini
ganaxlebis mindori
Two people talking is, at least conceptually, open to the community Open to
interruption…That’s part of the value of writing-as-dialogue,
The important interruptions each makes into the other’s thought, the sudden turns. So the page is
more alive in that it’s more like life, it moves like life.
James Hillman
Within the modernist aesthetic,” Arthur C. Danto writes, “all art stands outside life, in a space of
its own, metaphorically embodied in the Plexiglas display case, the bare white gallery, the
aluminum frame. When one seeks a deeper connection between art and life than this, modernism
is over.”
Art has been gradually transforming from a visual language of solely formal concerns such as
texture, color, and form, into something that is focused on interaction, participation and dialogue.
For decades, modernistic art has brought us work of extraordinary beauty and value, with the
central focus on the creative genius of the individual creator. Modernism has given us an image
of the artist as the “heroic male”—the lone genius struggling against society. Because this image
has in many ways operated as philosophical basis for much of the world, it has deprived art of its
amazing potential for community building through compassionate social action.
In this article I will discuss important aspects of the transition from modernism to
postmodernism, and the commonalties between postmodern dialogical practices and conflict
resolution practices and processes. Writer and critic Suzi Gablik talks extensively about the role
of postmodernism in contemporary society as moving beyond modernism’s non-reciprocal
monologue of self-expression, where, “an artist or writer imposes images or ideas on the world,
but nobody can answer back”. “Embedded in modernism,” Gablik says, “is a subtle and far-
reaching message concerning the loneliness and isolation of the self.”
In comparison, postmodernism represents a major shift away from modernism and romanticism,
to emphasize the participatory and dialogical process of art. After experiencing nearly a century
of modernism’s purist, vision-oriented ideology,
postmodernism considers the possibility of a type aesthetics that helps to make connections
between people, in the service of restoring art’s potential to build positive links with the world at
large.
Art Critic Clement Greenberg rejected the idea that art has any higher purpose than to be
aesthetically “good”. He thought that content was an obstacle for painting and the search for
meaning was merely a hindrance to the painter. In Greenberg’s view, the value of art was only
for its own sake, as art had no meaning outside of itself. As Suzi Gablik explains, “In a sense, for
the committed modernist, the audience doesn’t really exist. Barnett Newman always claimed that
the real reason an artist paints is so that he will have something to look at. Once, when an
interviewer asked the painter Clyfford Still whether he was concerned that his work reach the
people, Still replied, ‘Not in the least. That is what the comic strip does’”.
Clyfford Still, like most modernist painters, saw their art as existing independently from the
social sphere. They viewed their painting as the ultimate act of freedom, operating outside of
commerce, ambition and politics. But sadly, they were proven wrong, as their art became very
political. Their work would eventually be sought after by ambitious consumers, and would
become a main focus of the commodity art market. But perhaps most damaging was the
modernist principle of autonomy, which came to alienate much of the populace from art. In my
view, the modernist’s need for “individual freedom” was in many ways achieved at the expense
of art’s hugely beneficial potential for active social involvement. The intent of many
contemporary artists today is to find some kind of middle ground between solely aesthetic art,
and art that is socially responsible. And as I stated earlier, this article will focus on
postmodernism’s potential to help bring dialogue and participation back into artmaking practice.
I discuss Dominique Mazeaud’s river project “The Great Cleansing of the Rio Grande River”,
and how she ritually cleans garbage out of the river once a month. She gets to a point where the
relationship she has with the river takes over and becomes more important than the original
ecological thrust -although even that came more out of her pain at seeing the state of the river
than from a purely pragmatic desire to clean things up. It came out of her need to try and heal the
river and be with its pain. And then it felt like just being in dialogue with the river was enough.
But for many people, this is very problematic as art. Suzi Gablik
When defining what constitutes art in a society, art museums and galleries can be crucial.
Museums and galleries could be considered the most prominent forums of conflict in the
contemporary culture war. Especially in the United States, they are constantly under fire for their
practices of selection, their biases and assumptions, and for their critical role in creating and
forging the system and canons of art. Robert Hughes, an influential commentator and critic
wrote: “I think the job of democracy, in the field of art, is to make the world safe from elitism.
Not an elitism based on money or social position, but on skill and imagination.”
Art museums and galleries have a powerful voice in the construction of cultural identity, and as
Huges’ comments indicate, those who have no voice or representation are defined as
insignificant, and their interests irrelevant. Creating forums for diverse representation is an
important issue of postmodernist philosophy, and there are many examples of this including
citywide art programs where artists or artist’s groups are commissioned to do site-specific,
interactive installations (outside of the art museum and gallery) that involve participation and
dialogue between local communities over an extended period of time. The concepts of social
interaction as a way to engage new audiences for art, as well as creating new forums outside of
traditional art spaces, are two important goals of postmodern artmaking practice.
Quantum physicist David Bohm’s seminal essay entitled On Dialogue has had an impact on
artist’s mode of working. Bohm developed inspiring ideas around the principles of dialogue. He
observed that during the process of dialogue, people are able and often willing to hold multiple
and opposing opinions simultaneously, and give serious consideration to views that may be
significantly different from their own. During the process of dialogue, Bohm stated that
“everybody is sensitive to all the nuances going around and not merely to what is happening in
their own mind.” Bohm firmly believed that the sharing of consciousness was necessary for a
society to survive.
Bohm felt that the process of dialogue helped to foster this sharing, and could assist in changing
the social structure, from one of intolerance to one of participation. Thus, dialogue could help to
satisfy a society’s critical need for people to listen to each other, and to be open to different
opinions. This type of dialogical approach was designed not to attack different points of view,
but instead to make sure that all points of view get expressed. Suzi Gablik writes, “before he
died, Bohm was writing a lot about dialogue, because he believed that learning how to talk and
really listen to each other, rather than trying to win points relentlessly and put the other guy out
of business, was the only way anything would change.”
Dialogical approaches to artmaking offer many inclusive possibilities for the public sector, and
share a common philosophy with conflict resolution practice. Arnold Mindell, who works in the
field of conflict resolution has also inspired artists to use modes of dialogue in their work.
Mindell calls his dialogical process “world work”, and it involves bringing together conflicting
parties and allowing for a transformation to occur through an exchange and interpenetration that
can happen when conflicting parties listen to each other and share their viewpoints.
As Suzi Gablik explains, “Shifting into a mode of dialogue creates an interactive, participatory
kind of situation that is more relevant, I think, to the process and systems of thinking of our time.
The very principal of dialogue begins to break the spell of the notion that art or writing has to be
a totally solitary, or individual process.”
Joseph Beuys
Artist Joseph Beuys was a political activist, a teacher and an agent of political change. The focus
of Beuys work was to create dialogue around the creative potential of all humankind. He led an
international campaign from the 1960s until his death in 1986, which integrated political, thought
and art practice. Beuys wrote “Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a
senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build a
social organism as a work of art.” The purpose of this “social organism” was to restore the full
powers of self-determination to the populace through promoting each individual’s creativity.
Beuys believed that democracy would not be fully realized until every person became a creator,
because he felt the meaningful transformation of the social order could only happen through the
force of creative ideas and creative action.
Beuys defined art as a process with the potential to break through barriers that isolated people
from the spiritual aspects of life. He felt the most stubborn obstacles that societies faced were
stereotyping and habitual thought, and so he supported public dialogue as a way to help erode the
old world type of thinking, and to bring in a new social vision that involved the creative imput of
all the people.
San Diego State University Professors Helen and Newton Harrison work together designing
creative methods to help restore life to polluted waters. Their work is created through active
dialogue between each other that manifests as a live performance. In front of an audience, the
Harrison’s generate ecologically sound ideas through their dialogue with each other, and on a
case by case basis they have actually solved water pollution problems and transformed the
condition of the particular river that they are working on. In 1992 I attended a performance of the
Harrison’s at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Their mission was to clean up
a certain part of the Wabash River which runs through that area of Indiana. Their performance
dialogue was poetic, intelligent, informative and inspiring. I was amazed by the manner in which
they worked together and bounced ideas off each other to solve a problem in a genuine team
effort.
Artist Mel Chin also focuses his work toward critical ecological problems in need of resolution.
Working with a group of people, he focuses his creative energies on contaminated land that is
unable to sustain plant or animal life. In his project entitled Revival Field he works with a
landfill dumping ground near St. Paul, Minnesota USA, were the soil has been polluted with
heavy metal toxins. By growing and harvesting special plants that absorb heavy metals in soil,
Chin and his team of ecologically minded artists help to revive the contaminated dumping
ground. Toxic metals are removed from the soil with each harvest to gradually create a purified
earth.
In conclusion, I want to re-emphasize that many artists around the world have become the
orchestrators of new forms of public art that focus on community-based, interactive projects, that
have manifested into sustained dialogues around important social issues. These new forums are
meant to inspire a new mode of artmaking that transcends the traditional notion of sculpture in a
public park or plaza, and work to create new social venues designed to be inviting and inclusive
to public dialogue.
I feel that it is important for people working in the field of conflict resolution to understand that
these participatory approaches in artmaking can also be very relevant and useful to conflict
transformation processes. There are numerous ways in which conflict practitioners and artists
can share with each other on their approaches to creating forums for sustained dialogues among
conflicting parties and the public at large. I have touched briefly on the topic of postmodern
dialogical and participatory artmaking practices, and its potential toward healing and
transforming conflict. I invite you to explore more in-depth the role of artists in social
transformation.
MEL CHIN
Revival Field
Amadeo Vermishveli
Hello. My name is Givi. I want to give you my short story. The short story of my life. Or my
life’s short story. Or simply the story. People say I love to talk too much. They say once I start, I
can never finish. But I can tell you that this is not true. I do finish. Otherwise, I would not be able
to sleep. I know I am a strange fellow. But believe me, I have a lot of dignity. And I am going to
try to show you that now.
You know, I am intelligent. Some people say, I am an intelligent mother fucker. That could also
be true. Just in a good sense. I grew up on Sera, and there, we have the best mother fuckers in
Georgia. Of course, I mean this in a good sense. We restored democracy in Georgia with our
mother fucking habits. Although I should tell you privately, I do not like our current President.
He is too tricky. He has used us, and he has put many of my friends in prison. Thank God, I have
survived. Throughout my life, I have stabbed 15 people. I mean 15 people. I have beaten up
more than 100, perhaps more. But because I was on drugs for so long I forgot the exact number.
I hope you’ll forgive me for that. Beating people was never a pleasure for me, but it is a part of
my culture. I won’t even tell you how many times I have beaten my wife. That, of course, does
not count. Violence has been a way of life, although I should tell you that I do not particularly
enjoy that. But my friends from our fraternity think that this is the way of life. That is why we
backed the coup. We can’t give the power away, so the villagers come and take everything into
their hands. That does not work.
I should tell you that I had wonderful friends. They were such great people. Now, the majority
are either dead or in prison. I am so sad about this. I go to Church every other day and I pray. I
hope God will save my friend’s souls.
My friend Pudra was operating a racketeering business. In 1992 we would go to store owners
and they would give us the money without any problem. We would get a lot of money. And we
knew that the American millionaires started like that too. I know that the fittest survives, so we
were the fittest. We did many good deeds. We were helping all our relatives, friends, and even
some other people on the streets. Then we would go and rob. We would pay the police 1000
green bucks a month, and they would leave us alone. And believe me, we would not do anything
wrong. We would just go and ask for deserved money. We were their protectors. I would bring
about 2000 bucks home every day. Of course, I would spend lot of it with my friends. We would
go out to drink together, then we’d buy some cocaine, sometimes Hashish, and we’d all be happy
as hell. Those were the days. Pudra would divide the money, and he would give it to everyone
who deserved it.
But I gotta tell ya, I started to gamble hard when those God Damn Casinos showed up in town. I
started to lose a lot of money. I was making a hundred thousand bucks a month that time, which
wasn’t bad at all. But by the end of the day, I would bring 200-300 dollars home at the best. I did
not know why and how I lost so much money. Pudra was angry at me, and he would punish me.
One day he came up to me and told me: “Either you stop playing, or you go and fuck your own
mother in front of me”. That got me little scared, I have to tell ya. It is kind of awkward when
you are told this kinda thing. I felt like a junkie. Heroin is my weakness. This is my only
weakness, believe me. I don’t have any others. So Pudra was mad at me for losing that much
money, and he would rob more stores to get more money and he stopped giving it to me, because
he told me, I talk too much and I don’t do enough work. Pudra went into the oil business. And let
me tell ya, he made a hell of a lot of money! But I am in a deep shit! I somehow found myself in
deep shit! And I don’t know what to do about this.
So, I decided to become a member of the “Rioni” squad. We were paid well, and we would loot
during the civil war. We’d go to Mengrelia and loot the followers of Gamsakhurdia. It was not
much fun, since we had to rape women and kill some men to get what we wanted, but that was
the only way I could support my family. At that time, I was able to send about thousand bucks to
my family. I could not forget how my friends from our death squad killed a little boy, who was
trying to escape into the woods. They killed him just for fun. And I was throwing up for two
weeks after that. But there was no other way. I had to feed my family. And you understand, I
needed to have my heroin every two days. If I didn’t have that much money I would not be able
to live. I am just sad that I had to do those things. So many of my friends were killed during this
war. It was usually over money and power. Some of them became obsessed with their power.
Then Shevardnadze started to arrest my friends from “Rioni”. Our founder was arrested. Our
Godfather was arrested. He is in prison. So what the hell was I to do? I can’t rob those stores
anymore. They are protected by some other people. But I still have to have my heroin.
I have to tell you, my wife pisses me off some times. One day she made a declaration in front of
her family that she does not need the money that I bring home, because it is stolen. I got so mad!
I have never been more mad, my man! I busted my ass to get this bitch the money that she
desired for her dresses and her trips to Paris and New York, and she is not even thankful. She
became fucking moralistic! Man, fuck those kinds of a morals! You know how difficult is to
survive under those conditions! How difficult it is to feed your fucking family?! And then
someone comes to you and tells you that this is not good. That was so obnoxious, man! And so,
you know what did? I fucking got her out of the fucking room, and I called all of her fucking
family and I fucking drilled her in front of her mother and father. I was holding a shot gun, so
that no one had the wrong idea. I believe in God. I swear I do! But I think I was right with God. I
got her to submit. She was on her knees, and she never complained again.
You know, between us, the criminals we rape are mostly men. We try not to rape women, since
this is below our dignity. But sometimes you have to do it. And besides, she is my fucking wife,
and I am authorized by God to do whatever I want to her. And if she is ever disobedient to me, I
will do that again.
Those were the good old days. Now things have changed for the worse. Death squads do not
operate anymore. We can’t rob the stores that much. So I have to visit my friends to get a very
little money to do my little bit of drugs. The police are selling all the drugs. And it is so God
damn expensive—I can hardly afford to buy the drugs now. I want to tell you one thing that I
would probably not tell anyone else. Me and my wife are not formally together, but for the sake
of our child. We are not wife and husband anymore, in reality. But no one knows this besides
you. I have some other lovers and she knows about them. And she helps me out too. When I go
to buy the drugs from the police, I don’t always have the money. So sometimes I bring my wife,
and she gives a blow job to the chief of the police department, and then he gives me enough
heroin for about a month. What shall I do? I will die if I do not have the heroin. And she is not
complaining.
You know, I have a dream that one day Georgia will become a good country. So I don’t have to
sell my wife for heroin, so we don’t have to kill people to survive, and we don’t have to cheat
and do all those horrible things. So I could just be an intelligent person, and not a mother fucker
anymore. Sometimes, I feel so guilty. And because of that, I can’t stop talking and I can’t stay on
my own. My friends are afraid of me too. We are afraid of each other. And I wonder if one day
we will not be afraid of each other.
You know, I love my father. He would never steal. He has never beaten his wife. He never killed
a person. He has never even lied. When I think of him, I always cry. Why did it happen that I
became so different from him? He is an example for me. But my friends make fun of him,
because he does not know how to steal. Although I’m scared to say this, I am proud of him. I
should have been like him. Now I’m hitting 35 and I don’t want to feel like a bastard. I want to
be myself. And I think I am myself when I love my friends, and when I love other human beings
and I don’t take anything away from them.
Pudra was killed two years ago. Someone got so mad at him that he did not just kill him—he
also killed four of his friends. We buried them all on the same day. I was very sad, and I wanted
to kill myself. But I did not. Now, I want to continue living. I am wondering if I could do
something good. If I could learn to type on the computer. If I could learn to speak politely.
I know, my friend, I am still a mother fucker, but I try hard not to be. Believe me, I am trying. I
hope I will succeed.
I just want to go to sleep now. When I wake up I will tell you another story. I will tell you the
story of how we killed another mother fucker, Lia Barmitsva. So stay tuned in with me. I will tell
you lots of great stories about my friends. And after you hear all those great stories, you may
decide to become the president of Georgia Georgia needs a clean president like you, not a mother
fucker like us. But I will tell you this story anyway.
I will go to pee now. You see, I know when to stop talking. Whoever says I don’t stop talking is
dead wrong. I am good at it, damn it!
Real vs Ideal
by Tusia Beridze
[A fuzzy stream of consciousness, that tries to track the middle between 2 opposing points].
The rehabilitation took a much longer period of time than the period of the [bad mood itself].
Within my world, the rehabilitation was going through the same steps as me, and the real world,
the couple twin, appeared to be very busy with more important things then the renovation of one,
crippled individual – like me. The world never waited for me to recover. Because it loved
[reality], the one that you can measure and count. As for me, I was truly incapable of counting
and contracting. It was me, who waited for the world. Because it gifted me with the space to use.
The weeks throughout that span assigned [forever], which appeared to be so annoying and
intolerable, that after that, for quite a time, while reading different statements about the divine
and tremendous [forever], I felt like vomiting. But this nihilistic attitude of mine lasted for some
time - not [forever]. But this story is not about these weeks of infinity, it is about another period
of time, taken from [life]. – Though not necessarily from my diminutive, infinitesimal life; but
rather out of lives which gave birth to other lives, and which penetrate the human spirit with the
[light that never goes out]. What do you think is so joyful about life? So joyful that the human
heart keeps beating after all the pain it has put up with. I know, it’s not a smart question. You all
know an answer, but you usually answer this question in a noisy room, with the tang of glamour
of the crowded fetish, and you know that answering this very question, at that very moment, in
that very room makes you a full member of the fist, and it fits you well. We all are proficient in
that field. You answer it there, thinking that it is from the depth of your heart, when it is only
your frivolity speaking. But that’s not too bad. That too is one of those sparkles which often
interferes with the solidity and stability of our polished faces and corporeal brainstorms; when
the air binds you with renovating yourself, even through the time spent on the noisy rooms with
[glamour]. Why? Because mendacity is probably the threat, and on the other hand our biggest
temptation. Though we often threaten to give up on it, and externalise into somewhat standing
above it, something that we have no idea about, that is just a stairway built through the feasible
window of our house. That’s the point, we can’t wait to get higher, and stronger. And with that
hope, we skip the most important part of this gateway: the very mendacity and triviality that is
around us and that we are fed up with. One is high if one is the lowest. In other words, one can
reach the desired highest only by staying here, on earth, fulfilling the trivial assignments, and
delivering the ongoing loop between now and then, throughout the earth but not sky, Because the
sky comes afterwards. Probably the very obvious evidence to prove the logical intersection
between [real] and [ideal]. And fortunately I got to participate in this [grand activity] too; and so
did my ancestors and so does my future-in-flesh.
[the sky comes after]…as the air gets warmer, the stream of light is brought forth. The delivery
of the light is the highest deal ever implemented. Then, in the light, we all make deals, corporate
deals, private deals, criminal, and crucially important lifetime deals. But none of these can exert
above the one that first proceeds. At a moment when we become aware of our nights and our
darkness, and of our vulnerable sleepy heads and our fragile bunch of vanities that were said, felt
or done by us in the dark. The [morning deal], if I can call it so, is the automatic release. Pale
streams crossing the air, slowly gaining brightness and waiting to be identified by the objects
below, dwelling in total dark; once the sunrise is identified, and once it spreads through the
ground, we can feel it too…-
-“ The way I felt it that morning:
DIARY#1: April 18. [all I can bless my gratitude through is several landscapes and several
shadows from the several directions of this room. How much he loves us, how much courage,
and tender joy there is in each infinitesimal gesture with which he caresses the ruts of his
creation. And if sometimes, like now there is his one, little dust of love, infinity and forgiveness
inside me, there is nothing more then the prayer of gratefulness that I can give in return, to say
that I finally noticed his divine presence around and in me. How can one bear such unspeakably
huge love for so long and receive only the debris of its edges back and still anticipate modestly,
with quivering rapture and weeping joy towards every visible and invisible earthly creature, long
slanting rays of the setting sun and the soft, tender memories that come with them. This morning
is the morning of simplicity, interaction, and peace. A deal between me and the light and I really
don’t know if its faith is blind, crippled love, but whatever it is, it’s worth any suffering and
pain”.
AUTHOR: tiny, infinitesimal files that tip-toe through my mind, and that’s ok. The sky is
changing. Not much of a sun today. And because of that the light is very [limited] and scarcely
allocated over the object that is our today’s target. We’re constructing a high-way. A HIGH-
WAY that is going to serve more then twenty million cars, bicycles and motorcycles; a highway
that is open day and night for everyone. So, we’re developing a small, architectural pattern of the
initial concept of a [high way] – the way, or the intersection of the ways that we step on from the
day of our birth. On each side, each way, there is a guide to assist you. Each one of the four ways
is high. From the place where I stand now, the construction looks this way:
Construction # 1
ALL though me and the Group of architects is in charge of constructing the main body of this
object and creating an appropriate layout for it, in the space, this still remains an argument of no
vital importance in our role towards the conceptual framework of this highway. We all are well
aquainted with the texture and the fabrics that this highway will have to eventually adopt, as well
as the heavy weight of the vehicles that will run quickly and continuously through it, leaving
nothing but the blurry trace of pollution. The reason of my presence here today has nothing to do
with my working duty and career; the main reason of why I’m conducting this and several other
operations for implementing constructions is that I decided to use them as a gateway. A gateway
that helps me to maintain all the information that will be used in this story. The contents of such
information are billions of notes, diaries and mind-projects that have never taken place in reality.
These, as I have already mentioned, are the dashes and fragments of ordinary people who deliver
the so called [keys and maps] to walk on the [ways that are high], and these who remind us of
our supreme destination, from which most of us are eluded. And they rephrase and perpetually
repeat this activity. Consequently, my role in this project, besides working out the flesh of this
gate-way, also consists of simply standing on a highway and collecting sublime data from these,
I know we are going to be attaining their life-time procedures on this very high-way.
DIARY#2.”Today was one of those days when the world spins too fast and there is no
transparency in the air—when the path that I step on during the day is covered by ice, and when
each minute I’m about to fall down and brake my neck. It started in the early morning. They
woke me up, shouting and getting all over one another, saying: [it’s never gonna be warm
again… you’ll see. It’s going to be cold for the rest of our lives]… indeed, the cold light was the
first visual information that I received taking my blanket off and trying to find something to put
on… I was pacing up and down the room—it has never been so cold. [that morning the cold war
began]. And nobody really knew about it. We were just waiting, anticipating. Not a word was
said that morning. The city was dead.
I have a shelter. It is my duty to have a shelter. Otherwise I wouldn’t want to have one. I may
never see the sun again, and my hair will not grow… [let us find the despair and pain through
thought, within our head, but do not make it visible and flesh-like, because that is more then
pain, as it brings desolation, but nothing like the perfection of the thought. See, death is not the
key answer for those who continue to live in their flesh]. The TV is on. We’re listening to the
voice of a man called John W. Burton: “…there are such conflicts at all societal levels, that is a
situation in which ontological needs of identity and recognition, and associated human
developmental needs, are frustrated. These conflicts cannot long be continued, controlled or
suppressed, but can be resolved and prevented by the satisfaction of such needs”. Then the voice
becomes an echo, a diffused, fuzzy wave and we can hear the next words: “that conflict is a
……….. Generic phenomenon that knows no systematic boundaries. We need once again an
analytical process of conflict resolu…” – and the voice fades out and there is nothing but the roar
of the desolated TV screen in front of us.
AUTHOR: sooner or later, I’m going to take you to the second construction that I’m executing.
That, other one is more indecisive and more critical then the [high way]. I usually use it as a
comparison of two limitations, two radically different edges, that are having disputes within each
other. My life would be boring without the things I do. I know this story is boring as well, but I
just have to finish it by Monday, because I promised that next Monday is going to be different
than today.
Whatever happens, I have to take you to the other object. It is even more important then the first
one. Because less people have the chance to get there. And some of the things mentioned in this
story will be there, before a dilemma that has no end. The other object/construction is called
[bilingual stairs]. They indicate two ways, two stairways that look similar, and have different
functions and different directions. Ok, let’s go there:
BILINGUAL STAIRS
Construction#2.
These stairs assign the resemblance of the negative and positive ways –which might easily seem
the same, for one that has just started walking on them. Thus they are truly dangerous, despite
that they split in directions. Even though they both start from the zero point, which is in the
middle, between them, they have different missions. One side of the stairs is minus and the other
plus. One side runs up, while the other side runs down. It is very difficult to differentiate one
from the other. Very often people mess them up, and with the hope that they are on the right
track, they instead very actively walk down the wrong side of the stairs.
DIARY#3” I came across two parallel dreams. One of them was very sensible and close to
reality, and it looked like it was something that already happened and will keep on happening
over and over again—that was my, very tangible reality. And the other dream was very irrational
and distant. It was more likely a dream, then a desire or a wish, maybe because when I make a
wish, the centre of the wish is me, but as for this one, I was absent, I wasn’t here nor there, nor
was I ever meant to be. I suddenly felt that a real dream, consummate plan, was so unfeasible
that it could not carry myself, a human being, as its concept. There just was no place for me
there. These two dreams – real and ideal/surreal kept trying to intersect each other but there was
something that prevented these two from joining. And that something was the absence of magic
in the dream, which was [real], and the presence of the magic in the [ideal], surreal. And because
of such a gap and such a conflict between them, none of them could come true”.
AUTHOR: oh, what a shame. By the way, we have two main customers to walk the [bilingual
stairs] today. These are real vs. ideal. The argument against [real] comes first. And it too will be
a diary, collected on a [high way].
DIARY#4: [When they think...oh, that is an undeniably joyful thing to know.... the breaking
point of their thought starts with obliterating the slightest capacity for something that stands
beyond the visible form and feasible implementation of their thought. There can’t be a second
path for their desires and interests. There is only one, defined and acceptable idea, acceptable
worldwide. Their dreams—they are about an incomprehensible danger and mud, which might
provide a problem instead of a profit. The rats of the media, the rats take control and they too are
certainly the matters of God, deprived, diffused and rejected sons of the process, forever stuck in
the middle - the period within 2 determined lights, stuck twice between ever knowing or not
knowing at all. The identity of the up mentioned person, in ideal form, in some sense, works out
to be perfectly adjusted to its flesh, its material body, adequately resembling the thought and the
action, thus, incarnating into a progressive and dangerous object.]
AUTHOR: real is real. It is real because we consider it that way. Thus, while considering the
real, feasible values of the things around us, we know that there must be something beyond it.
And that’s ideal. Because we don’t possess it, only because we can’t have it. Thus it turned out
that there is only one candidate to fit my [bilingual stairs], the other—ideal is missing, as always.
There is no substantial evidence that it has ever competed with [reality], because they strive to
achieve the same goal, though through different means of communication.
DIARY#5: The diary of mine, [when I was in a bad mood]: 37 of July, and there is one, such
July – and that’s my July, with numbers that exceed the limit and which enumerate not only
months, but infinity itself, and that’s the most annoying thing ever. let’s go back to where it
begins-the shape. Now I’ll try to start a new project, a new construction. I’ll try to match the
things that have much in common or have no similarities at all. The simple, or I’d say the
simplest sketch-the circle—perfect, stunning, beautiful, and then the key—the stripe—the line
crossing it, and slightly diffusing the eye of the observer. But it is the exact key that helps the eye
precept and accept or mostly believe in the miracle of the perfect. It would undoubtedly be
almost impossible to realise the existence of the perfect, and believe in it if there would have
been no distortion—the biological interaction of the two most unmatchable creations in the
world. “There was, and will always be, the line to distract, and it will stand for the key point of
the major level of faith in the human being.”
DIARY: the last. “Idea of development is the development of human being, because human
beings are the measure of all things”. Johan Galtung.
zRaprebi
dali berekaSvili
mgelvefxva
iyo da ara iyo ra, iyo erTi mgelvefxva, romelic asanTis kolofSi cxovrobda.
mgelvefxva Zalian saSiSi mxeci iyo da yvelas Tavs esxmoda. visac ar unda Caevlo
misi kolofis gverdiT, Tagvi iqneboda Tu xoWo, spilo TuU dinozavri, xvliki Tu
veSapi, sul erTia, mgelvefxva gamoxteboda xolme Tavisi kolofidan da iWerda.
gansakuTrebiT veSapebs erCoda _ sul musri gaavlo.
ori muxluxa iyo da ara iyo ra, iyo ori muxluxa. erTs Tavi wiTeli hqonda,
kiseri narinjisferi, mere yviTeli, mere mwvane, mere cisferi, mere lurji, bolo ki
iisferi. meores, piriqiT Tavi iisferi hqonda, mere lurji, mere cisferi, mere
mwvane, mere yviTeli, mere narinjisferi, bolo ki wiTeli.
TviTonac mounda saSinlad. daiwyo zemoT asvla. didi wvalebiT aaRwia kenweros,
moirkala da ... zemoT axtomis magivrad, qvemoT Cavarda... ara, ar Cavarda, patara
abreSumis Zafs Camoekida (xom ginaxavs?).
ekida ase Zafze da dardobda, ekida da dardobda, garSemo sul abreSumis Zafi
Semoixvia, imitom, rom aRarafris danaxva ar undoda. ekida da ekida. erTxelac,
moiSora Semoxveuli da gamovida gareT... pepela. axla mas cisartyelasaviT lamazi
frTebi hqonda da frenac SeeZlo.
sami koWi
iyo da ara iyo ra, iyo sami koWi. erTi qvisgan iyo gamoTlili, meore _ xisgan,
mesame ki Tivisgan iyo dawnuli. idgnen erTad Taroze da kamaTobdnen, ara me
vjobivar yvelas, ara meo. am dros gamoCnda xeli da erT-erTi (qvis) koWi aiRo.
magram koWi mZime aRmoCnda da xels gauvarda. daeca fexs. fexi gamwarda da koWs
wixli hkra. koWi gagorda. xelma axla meore koWi aiRo _ Tivis. mouWira, magram
koWi daiWmuWna. xelma esec daagdo. bolos xis koWi aiRo xelma. is arc zedmetad
mZime iyo, arc zedmetad rbili. xelma masze Zafi daaxvia da didxans xmarobda. koWi
gulSi ambobda, “xom vambobdi, yvelas vjobivaro”. bolos Zafi gamoilia. magram, koWi
ar gadaugdiaT: bavSvebi mas sapnis buStebis gasaSvebad iyenebdnen. xis koWi sul
imeorebda amayad, “yvela koWze ukeTesi me varo”.
Tivis koWi ki, amasobaSi, WianWvelebma naxes. Zalian moewonaT _ is xom oqrosaviT
bzinavda da Tavis budeSi waiRes _ dedoflis taxts gavakeTebTo. marTlac, gaakeTes.
rodesac masze WianWvelebis dedofali dabrZanda, koWma Caicina TavisTvis, vin
medreboda, an rogor medrebodneno. is, ra Tqma unda, darwmunebuli iyo, rom
saukeTeso iyo.
qvis koWs raRa mouvida? ra da, roca fexma hkra da gaagora, dartyma iseTi Zlieri
iyo da ise swrafad gagorda mzis amosvlis sawinaaRmdego mimarTulebiT, rom
guSindel dReSi amoyo Tavi, mere ufro Sors warsulSi da bolos Zvel saberZneTSi
aRmoCnda. aq mas xeli mokida mSvenierma qalwulma ariadnem da zed Zafi daaxvia.
rogorc cnobilia, ariadnem is Zafi Tezevss misca da amis gamo Tezevsma moaxerxa
labirinTidan gamosvla, mokled, am ambavs aRar movyvebi, isedac ici (Tu ar ici,
SegiZlia waikiTxo). Tezevsis saxelganTqmuli gmirobis mere koWmac gaiTqva saxeli.
maSin ki amasTan dakavSirebioT taZrebs agebdnen. koWsac auges, SuaSi qvis svetze
daabrZanes da Tayvans scemdnen.
sul Ppirvelad
sul pirvelad qveynad araferi iyo. iyo mxolod oTxi aminomJava, ori muxluxa, sami
koWi, mgelvefxva, glukoza da gemoglobini.
mgelvefxva TareSobda da yvelas Tavs esxmoda. ai, miaxta erT muxluxas, magram is
caSi axta da cisartyelad gadaiqca. mgelvefxvam mxolod kudidan aminomJavas
awyveta moaswro. mere meore muxluxas miaxta mgelvefxva. iman ki frTebi gamoiba da
gafrinda. mgelvefxvam mxolod aminomJavis mowyveta moaswro. mere glukozas eca.
glukozam rqebi amokra da gaeqca. amasac kudidan aminomJava aawyvita mgelvefxvam.
bolos, gemoglobins eca. gemoglobinma okeaneSi CayvinTa. mgelvefxvam bolodan
aminomJava aawyvita mxolod. yvela gausxlta mgelvefxvas, SerCa mxolod oTxi
aminomJava. ra unda eqna? moiwyina. mere adga da am aminomJavebisagan samyaro Seqmna.
sami koWi? samyaro rameze xom unda daedga, hoda, sam koWs daayrdno.
wiTelquda
iyo da ara iyo ra, iyo erTi sayvareli gogona, romelsac wiTeli qudis tareba
uyvarda da wiTelqudas eZaxdnen. yvelafrad kargi da damjeri bavSvi iyo, oRond
erTi ucnauroba sWirda: sadac ki mgels dainaxavda, mivardeboda da gadaylapavda
xolme. misi SiSiT im aremareSi mgeli ar WaWanebda. erTxel bebia gauxda avad tyis
gadaRma sofelSi. dedam wiTelqudas bebiasTvis kalaTSi Rvezeli Caudo, Tan daariga,
Sen ici, WkuiT moiqeci, tyeSi mglebs devnas nu dauwyebo. wiTelquda Sepirda (is
xom damjeri gogo iyo) da gzas gaudga. mglebis Zebna marTlac ar dauwyia.
cudi zRapari
erT mSvenier adgilas didi lamazi xe iyo amosuli. gazafxulze misi yvavilebi
saamur surnels afrqvevdnen, totebze Citebi WikWikebdnen, zafxulSi mis qveS
sigrile da nazi niavi iyo, Semodgomaze misi nayofiT Citebi da ciyvebi
itkbarunebdnen pirs, zamTars ki ciyvi mis fuRuroSi atarebda Tbilad da myudrod.
erTxel movida kverna, ciyvi SeWama da fuRuroSi dasaxlda. mere movida monadire,
kverna mokla, xe moWra da mis adgilas rkinis boZi CaarWo. boZi waiqca, kacs TavSi
daeca da mokla. TviTon ki daJangda.
mivida erTi bavSvi da yvavilebi sul gakrifa, magram sanam moqonda, Txa wamoepara da
Taiguli SeuWama. Txas ki, amasobaSi, mgeli wamoepara da SeWama. mere bavSvic
miayola. mgelma amdeni ver gadaxarSa da fexi gafSika.
iq, sadac is gaixrwna, amovida balaxi, mere yvavilebi, mere xe, mere rkinis boZi, mere
ciyvi, mere kverna, mere Txa, mere mgeli, mere monadire, mere bavSvi, da yvela, garda
balaxis, yvavilebis, xisa da boZisa aqeT-iqeT daifanta.
mZinare mzeTunaxavi
erT mSvenier qveyanaSi mefe-dedofals didi xnis uSvilobis mere qaliSvili SeeZina.
gaxarebulebma didi wveuleba moawyes da naTliebad feriebi dapatiJes. pirvelma
feriam Tavis naTluls silamaze uboZa, meorem _ mSvenieri xma, mesamem _ simarde da
siswrafe, meoTxem ... ver moaswro verafris Tqma, roca daupatiJeblad, gajavrebuli,
beberi jadoqari Semovida da princesas udroo sikvdili aRuTqva TiTistaris
Cxvletisagan. amis mere gauCinarda. yvela SeZrwunda, magram gamovida meoTxe feria
da ganacxada, rom Tumca jadoqris wyevlas mTlianad ver gaauqmebda, mainc
Seamsubuqebda _ princesa ki ar mokvdeboda, mxolod daiZinebda asi wliT, sanam mas
princi gamoaRviZebda kocniT.
princesa ki amdeni sirbilisagan ise daiRala, rom wamowva da daiZina asi wliT.
wunia sapatarZlo
iyo erTi Zalian lamazi qaliSvili. saxelic lamazi da mJReri hqonda _ qserokopia.
qserokopia yvelas erTi SexedviT uyvardeboda, amitom mTxovnelebi sul Tavs exvia.
magram igi Zalian mediduri da amayi iyo da yvelas iwunebda. mobezrda mefes
(damaviwyda meTqva, rom qserokopia mefis asuli iyo) Tavisi qaliSvilis sijiute da
ucxoeTSi gaagzavna WurWlis mrecxavad.
moTxrobebi
Tamar berekaSvili
pavle
im dRes pavle cud gunebaze iyo. an ki rodis iyo karg gunebaze?! magram im dRes
ganacxada, karg gunebaze vera varo, pilateze laparakobda da uimedobas gamoTqvamda.
yvelaferSi marTali iyo, gaugebari iyo marto, ratom dRes da ara guSin an
guSinwin, an imis win, an ra iqneba xval, xvalac xom igivea? xval pavle ufro
mxiaruli movida, sinamdvileSi isev ise, magram cud gunebaze araferi dascdenia da
yvavilebsac wyali dausxa, Semdeg erT-erT ninos varcxniloba mouwona da wavida.
pilateze aRaraferi uTqvams. mesame dRes pavle axal kostumSi movida, lamazi da
saqmiani, Tumca araferi gaukeTebia, albaT emzadeboda saqmis dasawyebad. “xoroSo” _
Tqva, rac niSnavda, rom yvelaferi gasagebi iyo, isic, rom srulebiTac ar aris
yvelaferi kargad, magram man Tadarigi daiWira da miiRo rogorc aris. albaT pavle
nebismier xasiaTze unda aitano - gaifiqra merim.
ambavi
mezoblebSi xma gavarda, deida ivlita cudad gaxdao. marTlac deida ivlita ezoSi
ijda, xeli im adgilas miedo, sadac guli eguleboda da oxvra-oxvriT, magram
aRelvebuli yveboda.
_ ai ase mouva, Tqva gugulim. _ sul veubnebi, Zalian anebivreb Sens Svils meTqi da
ar mijerebs, ai Sedegic.
“flakonCikebi”
cxra studenti iyo jgufSi: dako, mako, sofo, eka, Tako, elo, lika, cika da
gulizari. yvela erTnairi iyo, Tumca zogi maRali, zogi ki dabali, gamxdrebic da
mosuqebulebic, yvela ratrata da mxiaruli. yvela erTnairad kargad swavlobda.
yvelas uyvarda simRera da yvela igvianebda. zogi qera iyo, sxvebi Savgremani. Tvalis
feriTac albaT gansxvavdebodnen, magram mainc Zneli gasarCevi iyvnen. leqciis Semdeg
sarkesTan iyridnen Tavs da JivJivebdnen, bumbuls isworebdnen. ra ecvlebodaT
gaugebari iyo, magram amis Semdeg Zalian kmayofilebi gadiodnen quCaSi, sruli
SegnebiT, rom axla bevrad mimzidvelebi gaxdnen. brwyinavdnen da cimcimebdnen,
rogorc axlad garecxili SuSis boTlebi sxvadasxva saxelis franguli sasinji
sunamoTi _ dako, mako, sofo, eka, Tako, elo, lika, cika da gulizari
“flakonCikebi”.
dito
ditos Zalian aRizianebda qveynis gmiruli da sasaxelo warsuli, ufro sworad, ar
moswonda, rom masac unda edidebina es warsuli da eamaya misiT. saamayo xom isedac
bevri hqonda _ iyo axalgazrda, Wkviani, niWieri, progresuli, kargad icoda
inglisuri da bodriaric ai, ukve sami welia, rac wakiTxuli hqonda. cxadia,
TviTonac SeeZlo eyvira, ZirZveli da unikaluri eri varTo, magram ase xom isinic
laparakobdnen, da swored isini, visac bodriari ar hqonda wakiTxuli da
inglisurad marto “o-kei” icodnen. Tanac imaSic darwmunebuli iyo, rom zne-
CveulebebSi araferi icvleba da Tu dRes prezidentebi da saxelmwifos meTaurebi
tyuian, mruSoben, pedofiloben da zoofiloben, warsulSi miT ufro ase
moiqceodnen, rodesac mefeebi iyvnen da yvelafris uflebac hqondaT. da gana ratom
ar SeiZleba daviT aRmaSenebeli gei yofiliyo, rodesac misi saTayvanebeli fuko iyo
gei. imdeni ifiqra amaze, rom darwmunda kidec Tavis simarTleSi. marTalia,
samecniero naSroms amaze ver dawerda, radganac dasabuTeba aklda, magram kargi
moTxroba ki gamouvida _ Tanamedrove da yuradsaRebi. Zalian kmayofili iyo.
didi gza
begim SeamCnia, rom yvela did xelovans Saragzebis Cveneba uyvars _ bunuels,
felinis, kanCalovskis, da kidev vin moTvlis ramdens. gadawyvita, namdvilad didi
gza unda warmovaCinoo. didi gza mniSvnelobas aniWebs yvelafers, da, rac mTavaria,
avtors. daiwyo nanaxi didi gzebis gaxseneba. maSinve Tavisi quCa warmoudga Tvalwin
nagviani paketebiT rigSi _ ara, es ar vargao _ gaifiqra. Semdeg amerikis trasebis
gaxseneba daiwyo, magram marto kinoSi enaxa, amitom rigianad ver warmoidgina. Tavisi
soflis Saragza moigona, magram es gana didi gzaa?! Tanac am gzaze virebi da misi
mezobeli varvara dadian, es ar STaagonebda Sedevris Sesaqmnelad. icoda, rom yvela
did gzebze dadian virebi, varvarebi da sxva saeWvo arsebebi, magram Tavidanve,
warmodgenisTanave rom maT evloT, ar undoda. moiwyina. aRmoCnda, rom mas didi gza
ar hqonda.
swavluli mdivani
franci swavluli mdivani iyo. es is kaci iyo, wliur Temebs rom agrovebda
institutSi da WerSi awyobda. yvela pativs scemda, imitom, rom Tavisi saqme hqonda
da wlis bolos nebismierisTvis SeeZlo moekiTxa _ Seni Tema sad ario. francma
icoda Tavisi fasi, amitom yvelasTan Tamami da ironiuli iyo.
erTxelac wlis bolos aRmoaCina, rom yvelas moetana Temebi tatos garda. Zalian
gabrazda. es tato isedac didi xania ar moswonda, misgan mowiwebas ver grZnobda. ar
undoda dasmena dabraleboda, amitom gadawyvita angariSiT Sesuliyo direqtorTan,
romelSic ewereboda, rom 29 wliuri Temis magivrad wels marto 28 Tema
Semouvida. direqtori SeekiTxeboda, ratom aris naklebio da isic moridebiT
miugebda, tatos daagvianda motanao, albaT daaviwyda, rom CvenTan muSaobs.
direqtori ganrisxdeba da tatos samsaxuridan gaagdebs.
revi kargi kaci iyo. icoda, rom kargi iyo, imitom rom TviTon iSroma Tavisi meobis
srulyofisTvis. kargi kacoba misTvis mTavari iyo. rac ginda daebralebinaT, magram
veravin ityoda, rom giJebs, Rrma moxucebs, meamboxeebs, msubuqi yofaqcevis qalebs an
moxuligno axalgazrdebs ar wyalobda. rodesac vinme usayvedurebda, raRa es giJi an
yvelas maginebeli vigindara miiRe samsaxurSio, mSvidad da keTili RimiliT
pasuxobda, me vesaubre da normaluri adamianiao, ubralod veravin ugebs.
mosayvedurec maSinve xvdeboda, ra didbunebovani adamiani iyo revi da ra mwire
TviTon. cnobili gaxda qalaqSi Tavisi keTilSobilebiTa da uangarobiT, magram rac
ufro mets laparakobdnen masze da aqebdnen, miT ufro Tavmdabali da enatkbili
xdeboda _ srulyofilebas xom sazRvari ara aqvs! gavida dro da revi gardaicvala,
giJebma, Rrma moxucebma, meamboxeebma, msubuqi yofaqcevis qalebma da daberebulma
moxuligno axalgazrdebma ki erTmaneTi daxoces, imitom rom ar iyvnen reviviT
keTilSobilni da didbunebovanni.
There is absolutely no doubt that the day of September 11, 2001 will be remembered around the
world as the one of the worst human nightmares alongside Hiroshima, Holocaust, Genocide and
other atrocities committed by different human regimes or groups. There is also no doubt that this
was a merciless, cowardly operation, carried out with unprecedented barbarity and with no
regard for innocent human life. Our hearts and souls go out to the victims and their families and
loved ones. The horror the world has faced watching the terrorist attack live on television is
unimaginable. Many people did not believe this was real footage. I happened to be in the
Georgian province of Samtskhe-Javakheti, populated with Georgians and Armenians. Everyone
was talking about the attack on the World Trade Center. People there were shocked, and they
could not believe that this horrible tragedy happened.
Sympathies of the entire world go to America. The homeland of freedom is suffering from a
deep wound. And there are many questions regarding how and why this happened. How could
the American Air Traffic System have missed identifying the suspicious activity of these four
planes that carried out the attacks? People are also wondering what kind of experiences and what
sort of rationale can create such bitterness in a person as to motivate them to become a suicide
bomber and destroyer of lives of thousands of people?
There is no doubt that terrorists like Osama bin Laden must face justice in a universal court for
taking so many innocent lives. In the short term we can work on neutralizing terrorist groups in
general for some time, while developing long-term approaches to preventing terrorism in the
world. The new dichotomy that is materializing is the North VS South confrontation. Rich vs
poor, industrialized vs developing, multi-national corporations vs billions of starving citizens of
the world. When the majority of the global population are living below the poverty level,
religious fanatics are viewed as standing on much more stable ground. The World Trade Center,
a proud symbol of modern capitalism has created mixed feelings. To many people it seemed like
a symbol of economic imperialism, as well as an unachievable dream. In the restaurant in the
WTC, the cost of a pot of tea was the same as the monthly income of the working population in
many developing countries, including Georgia. The Pentagon was also identified as a defender of
the richest corporations who were seen as oppressing the working class majority. This situation
is not about religion; nor is it about ethnicity. America could proudly say that there is less
religious and ethnic discrimination in the US than in any other world country. Here, we are
dealing with the problem of structural violence around the world, where billions of people are
suffering from the lack of very basic human necessities. According to the UNDP data of 1998
there is about $40 billion needed annually to deal with the most basic problems of the South,
including malnutrition, lack of medical care and jobs. This amount of money is just a small part
of the total revenue of many multi-national corporations, let alone illegal drug profit.
It is, of course, difficult to say what is a remedy from this disease. But one thing is clear: in the
21st century we need to find new ways to meet the basic human needs of the majority of the
world’s population. It is not impossible, there are ways to create a more humane and just global
society. Free markets and democratic systems have the potential to bring happiness to majority
of the people in the world. As great Thomas Jefferson wrote in the declaration of American
Independence “Every man has the right for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. These days
we shall say, every human being (and not just a man) in the world has this right to those
fundamental sanctities of democratic society. More then 3 billion people should not be currently
suffering from inadequate basic resources. To prevent further terrorist attacks, we need to
address and resolve the severe imbalances in global resource distribution that currently exist,
rather than demonize a religion, culture and/or nation.
President Bush has said that we are facing the first war of our new century. This is indeed, the
first war of the 21st century, and we hope that this war is going to bring perpetrators to world
justice. We also hope that this war will be waged against poverty, discrimination, deprivation,
human suffering, imperialism, and neocolonialism. America is a great country, a country where
civil liberties and civil rights are protected. Now we hope that America will lead the world in
defending the civil rights of world citizens, so there will be less people who will feel inclined to
join some wealthy fanatic or a self-declared violent Messiah.
Creating more opportunities for people in the so called third world, and giving them a chance to
participate and engage in a true democratic process is the way out of the terrorist nightmare. The
free market certainly could be a productive and even compassionate system, and this can happen
when people compete with and against scarcity and poverty, instead of competing with each
other. This also happens when we explore collaboration instead of domination. God has created
all of us as equals, and all human beings are entitled to have a decent life.Now, when the world
is becoming smaller and smaller, we need to take more and more responsibility for those
millions of world citizens, who live and die in a horrible misery. We simply cannot ignore them
anymore, since all of us are vulnerable to terrorism. And for creating this positive peace we need
to work hard. It is not going to be easy, but it is possible.
Meanwhile we pray for those who have died, and extend our deepest compassion to their loved
ones.
irakli kakabaZe
bevris wera SeiZleba siyvarulis doqtrinis Teoriuli mxareebis Sesaxeb. Tumca, me
minda, konkretulad gavCerde erT metad mniSvnelovan aspeqtze. es aris is, Tu ra
praqtikuli meqanizmebi SeiZleba gamoinaxos im saSineli struqturuli Zaladobis
gadasalaxavad, romelSiac dRes saqarTvelo aris moqceuli sxavdasxva subieqturi,
Tu obieqturi mizezis gamo.
pirvel rigSi aucileblad unda iTqvas, rom saqarTveloSi jer kidev sabWoTa dros
Camoyalibda saocari struqturuli uTanasworoba sxvadasxva klasebs Soris. es
albaT paradoqsulia, magram sabWoTa kavSiri bevrad ufro klasobrivad Sovinisturi
sazogadoeba iyo, vidre ganviTarebuli kapitalisturi qveynebi. aq, Raribi
mosaxleobis uflebebi arasdros yofila daculi. piriqiT, isini bevrad ufro
saSinlad iyvnen eqspluatirebulni, vidre muSebi arian kapitalistur qveynebSi. ar
arsebobda namdvili profkavSirebi. Sedegad miviReT naxevrad batonymuri da naxevrad
monaTmflobeluri saxelmwifo, romelsac saxelad socialisturi erqva. sabWoTa
nomenklatura modernizebul feodalur klass warmoadgenda da mosaxleobis 80
procenti mainc monisa da ymis mdgomareobaSi imyofeboda. aman warmoSva udidesi
socialuri zRvari da SuRli mosaxleobis sxvadasxva klasebs Soris. klasobrivad
Sovinisturi sazogadoebis arseboba iyo erT-erTi mTavari mizezi, 90-iani wlebis
dasawyisSi momxdari socialuri kataklizmebisa.
About the Terrorist Attack on the United States of America on September 11, 2001
Was Huntington right in the end? Are we facing the danger of global civilizational wars in the
21st century?
How is it possible that someone who is embittered about his people’s suffering and oppression
could feel that the response would be to hurt other people? The whole of mankind is divided
civilizationally into those who accept this solution, and those who deny it. How can the blood of
thousands of people whose only fault is that they are Americans or happen to be in America, be
taken in exchange for the suffering of other people in other places in the world? How can anyone
in the world consciously join in this well orchestrated celebration of Evil? Is it not the time for
humankind to ask this final question of survival?
We feel as being unquestionably on the side of those who have already answered this latter
question for themselves. Now we need to put aside all the differences, ambitions, stereotypes and
negative perceptions, and express one whole spirit in favor of life, justice and democracy. It’s
time to realize that anyone who accepts the idea of terrorism as a solution to problems,
contributes to its materialization.
We should not indulge in the danger of temptation to identify the Villain as Arabs or Muslims or
Middle Easterners. The Villains are just sick persons with money; faceless cowards, who are no
less dangerous as that. Now faceless, or rather UFO (unidentified faceless objects), they need to
be identified and punished. But the evil should be identified and dealt with within ourselves, as
to witness evil and not act, is also evil.
The Peace Times Published by: International Center on Conflict and Negotiation
Supported by: Cordaid
ISBN: 99928-824-3-3
© 2001 by ICCN