Nino Zubashvili

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Nino Zubashvili is a researcher at CRRC Georgia.

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Datablog | People in Georgia are highly uncertain about their economic future

by Nino Zubashvili

•4 min read

Across various demographic groups, Georgians are uncertain about what their economic futures might hold, with those from lower-income backgrounds more uncertain than those with a higher income. Georgia today faces numerous structural challenges that hinder social and economic development, such as low productivity and low-quality jobs, poor quality of education, poor links between education and employment, high unemployment, and poverty. On top of this, high use of the dollar alongside the c

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Datablog | Youth in Georgia have little trust in unions

by Nino Zubashvili

•4 min read

Despite some recent victories by independent trade unions, recent data shows that youth in Georgia both have low trust and low awareness of unions in the country. Worker strikes in recent years in Georgia, such as the 2018 metro operators’ strike, the 2019 social workers’ strike, and the 2021 delivery workers’ strike, among others, have led to focus on unions and their role in the country. However, due to Georgia’s Soviet heritage and neoliberal policies, among other factors, some argue tha

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Datablog | Young Georgians do not want a military solution in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

by Nino Zubashvili

•4 min read

While the war in Ukraine has raised questions abroad about a potential outbreak of hostilities in Georgia, data shows that Georgians are against any military solution to the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia’s war on Ukraine has raised fears in Abkhazia and South Ossetia that military aggression might be expected from Georgia. As Russia mobilised its military along Ukraine’s borders, the de facto authorities in Abkhazia declared military readiness to avoid ‘possible provocation f

Abkhazia

Datablog | A different kind of social distance

by Nino Zubashvili

•5 min read

Georgians feel as alienated from those living in Abkhazia and South Ossetia as they do with ethnic minorities living in Georgia. While the pandemic made ‘social distance’ about physically staying apart from one another, long before that, social distance in the social sciences measured inter-group acceptance, tolerance, and/or prejudice. The same approach is used in post-conflict settings to measure the extent of alienation between conflict divided societies, with studies suggesting that social

Saint George's Armenian Apostolic Church in Tbilisi. Photo: Dominik Cagara/OC Media.

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Datablog | Past wars have taught Georgians both to fear and be tolerant of minorities

by Nino Zubashvili

•5 min read

Public polling shows how Georgia’s ethnic conflicts have shaped attitudes towards ethnic and linguistic minorities. But how are fear and tolerance linked to ethno-nationalist sentiments in the country? Since the beginning of the 1990s, Georgia has gone through a number of ethnic conflicts that have not been resolved to this day. Given that Georgia has always been a multi-ethnic country, and the traumatic experience of unresolved conflicts, attitudes towards ethnic minorities matter. Recently r

Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, December 2020. Photo: OC Media.

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Datablog | How do Georgians assess the parties involved in the Nagorno-Karabakh war?

by Nino Zubashvili

•4 min read

While polling suggests that 26% of Georgia’s population had not heard of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh last autumn, for those who had, opinions were difficult to gage. So how did Georgians view the roles of the belligerents, outside actors, and indeed their own country? In December 2020, shortly after the end of military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, 74% of Georgians reported they had heard of the conflict that had raged there only a month prior. Among those that were aware of the conflict, th

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