Minorities and the State in the South Caucasus:
Assessing the Protection of National Minorities in Georgia and Azerbaijan

By Johanna Popjanevski

SILK ROAD PAPER
September 2006

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program –
A Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
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Author: Johanna Popjanevski, LL.M., is Deputy Director for the Black Sea region at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, based in the Center’s Uppsala office. She is working specifically with the project on conflict management and ethnic relations in the South Caucasus, conducted jointly with the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies where she has also spent a year as a visiting researcher. Ms. Popjanevski holds an LL.M. Degree from Lund University, in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

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