Academic Staff

Tamar Charkviani

Associate Professor

Email: t.charkviani@gipa.ge

Doctor of Sociology, lectures in social sciences at various universities and has rich experience in scientific research activities. She is the leader of a number of scientific scholarships and research grants; Young scientist program fellow of the Heinrich Biol Foundation, Ilia Chavchavadze scholarship program of the National Science Foundation of Georgia, Transnational Crime and Corruption Research Center (TraCCC CO) research grant, National Science Foundation of Georgia President's grant for young scientists and Caucasian Swiss Academic Network (ASCN) grant supervisor and etc. For years, Tamar has cooperated with various international and local non-governmental organizations, where she is invited as an expert, researcher, monitoring, and development specialist. Among them she was an expert in the monitoring direction of the GTZ ‘Local Self-Government Development Promotion’ program; She also cooperated with the ‘Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD)’ in various projects; She was a researcher at the Institute of Economic Development (GEDI), non-governmental organization ‘Institute of Social Research and Analysis’ (ISSA), implemented the project ‘Creating a map of religious organizations and FBO Georgia’ within the framework of Word Vision International, etc. She has published books: ‘Existing Discourses on the Rule of Law and Jury Court’, published within the ‘President's Grant for Young Scientists’ of the National Science Foundation of Georgia; Co-authorship of ‘Meritocracy Formation Process in Transforming Public Service’ (in Georgian and English). Ilia University Publishing House, Tbilisi.) ISBN 978-9941-18-085-9.; ‘Principles of power distribution and ‘control and balance" in Georgia’ (in Georgian and English). Co-authorship. Ilia University Publishing House, Tbilisi) ISBN 978-9941-0-6070-0. She has published more than 25 scientific papers in both Georgian and international refereed scientific journals. She is a participant in numerous international conferences and forums.

Courses:

  • Sociology of culture
  • Intercultural relations
  • Meritocratic perspective and social institutions

Research and Publications:

2024 - Challenges of Interreligious Relations in Georgia through the Prism of Interreligious Dialogue: Identification and Analysis of the Monomodel, Intermodel, and Multimodel, Jacobs Verlag E-ISSN:2197-5248, 122057 2025-01-28_10-41-33_MKES56CbMilWDs5ZxOOT8zGJdtr8mJ5vPN86UciF.pdf

 

2024 - THE IMPORTANCE AND INFLUENCE OF LABOR MOTIVATION ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL LABOR PRACTICES (CASE OF GEORGIA AND GERMANY), The periodic journal Caucasus and the World, published by the International Center for Geo-Historical and Geopolitical Studies of the Caucasus, is a peer-reviewed international scientific publication. The journal is issued monthly and is officially registered.LEGAL PERSON OF PUBLIC LA, 2024-09, 120925 THE CAUCASUS AND THE WORLD International Scientifi c Journal

 

2024 Analysis of Monomodel, Multimodel, and Intermodel Interdependence of Religions in the Process of Interreligious Dialogue in Georgia, 2024-09 Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, 121137 https://journals.sabauni.edu.ge/index.php/ch/issue/view/42

 

2024 Analysis of Sociocultural Approaches to the Crisis of Trust in State Institutions, Caucasus University, 2024-05, 119269 https://heconomic.cu.edu.ge/index.php/healthecosoc/article/view/7793/7738

 

  • 2021 Self-government in terms of gender: the role and needs of women in local politics (empirical sociological research), Georgian scientists, Vol.3, No.3(2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.52340/gs.2021.08.07, association for science.
  • 2020 Cases of Law-making in Georgia - the Contradiction of Rule of Law and Rule by Law, The Journal of Politics and Democratization, Volume 4-2 (January 2020) (GIPA, Tbilisi, Georgia).
  • 2019 Public Management Culture and Meritocracy in Georgia– through the Prism of Development of State Institutions, Journal of Politics and Democratization, Volume 4-1 (June 2019) (GIPA, Tbilisi, Georgia).
  • 2018 Democratization process in lawmaking prism: Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law, Freedom from Independence for 100 Years (26 Essays), Institute for Education and Consciousness.
  • 2018 Civil Consciousness and Discourse on the Boundaries of the Participation of the Georgian Church in Public Life, Civic Education and Practices of Democracy in Post-Soviet Countries International Conference Papers.

Projects:

2024 11th - 12th December International Conference on Cultural Sociology of Religion and Beliefs (ICCSRB-24), Challenges of Interreligious Relations in Georgia through the Prism of Interreligious Dialogue: Identification and Analysis of the Monomodel, Intermodel, and Multimode

 

2019 - Summer School for Professors, (Beijing, Lanzhou University) Chinese Embassy, Confucius Institute, Alte University

2016-2017 - grantee, project leader, "Development of migration management in Georgia through research-based advocacy, awareness-raising, networking and technology", European Union, Young Lawyers Association

2015 Mentoring Program, Research Visit to Berlin, Germany, Academic Caucasus Swiss Network (ASCN)

2012-2016 – Researcher, "Informal Power Networks - in Georgia and Armenia", Academic Swiss Network of the Caucasus (ASCN)

2012 - Researcher, "Principles of Power Distribution and Control Balancing" in Georgia, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation grant (agreement number 12/41)

2010-2011 - Grant recipient, project leader, "Meritocracy Formation Process in Transforming Public Service", Caucasus Swiss Academic Network (ASCN)

 

Research interests:

Theory and practice of formal and informal institutions, concepts of the rule of law, sociology of religion and gender, strategies for functioning public service and local self-government, and public service reform.