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Guranda Bursulaia

Guranda is a PhD candidate from Abkhazia at the Free University of Tbilisi. She works as a Peace and Confidence Building Programme Coordinator at the Charity Humanitarian Centre — Abkhazeti.

Hans Gutbrod

Hans teaches at Ilia State University, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Seton Hall University, and regularly writes on questions of ethics and commemoration. Hans is on Twitter at @HansGutbrod.

Anahit Harutyunyan

Anahit is a broadcast and multimedia freelance journalist from Gyumri, Armenia. She has covered social, economic, educational, and cultural issues in the country since 2010.

Hermine Virabian

Hermine is a freelance journalist who covers social issues and human rights, specialising in visual storytelling. Her work has appeared in a number of local and regional media publications and she has completed a journalism fellowship at RFE/RL in Prague.

Heydar Isayev

Heydar is a freelance journalist based in Baku. He covers conflicts, society, and the underrepresented. His work has appeared on Transitions Online, Corridors, Chai Khana, and the Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformations.

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan

Hovhannes is a writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker from Yerevan. He previously worked at the Ankakh, Yerkir, and Aravot newspapers as well as at queer rights group PINK Armenia. He is the creator of several short and mid-length documentary films related to repressions of the Soviet Union, human rights, modern society, and personal relations and is currently working on his first feature-length documentary film.

Ian McNaught Davis

Ian is a South African photojournalist specialising in documentary photography. He is fascinated with recording the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour, whether they are held in subtle gestures, compelling forms and lines or glaring paradoxes. His photographs have been exhibited in London, Rome, Bologna, Tbilisi, Cape Town, and Kathmandu, and his editorial publications include GQ, BBC News, and The Sunday Independent. His work can be viewed at: ianmcnaughtdavis.com.

Ian Goodrich

Ian is a policy analyst at CRRC Georgia.

Indie Peace

Indie Peace is a conflict transformation organisation.