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ISET/CRRC Georgia, Zandukeli St. 16

downstairs Conference Room

6:15 Pm, Wednesday, February 29, 2012

This presentation lays out the plan for Ms. Hough's dissertation research, through which she hopes to explore how the security sector reforms following the Rose Revolution dramatically impacted the daily lives of Georgian citizens, particularly the freedom of movement of women and business prospects for local entrepreneurs, in Tbilisi and Svaneti. 

Leslie Hough first came to Georgia in 1999 to work for then Chairman Zurab Zhvania’s Office in the Georgian Parliament, returned in 2006 as a longterm election observer with the OSCE and again in 2011 as an IREX US Embassy Policy Specialist. She has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the South Korean Mission to the United N ations, holds an MA in Conflict Management from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and has conducted research and election-monitoring missions in Russia, Kosovo, Albania, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Haiti.

W-i-P is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place every Wednesday at the International School of Economics (ISET) building (16 Zandukeli Street). It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC).

The purpose of the W-i-P series is to provide support and productive criticism to those researching and developing academic projects pertaining the Caucasus region.

Would you like to present at one of the W-i-P sessions? Send an e-mail to wip@crrccenters.org.