This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
To register & access live stream links, visit the event page on our website: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-georgian-election-2020
Please join the Harriman Institute for a panel discussion about the 2020 parliamentary election in Georgia.
On October 31, 2020, Georgia will go to the polls to elect a new parliament. Since the last parliamentary election four years ago, Georgia has experienced a spate of opposition demonstrations, continued slow annexation by Russia into Georgian territory and, like the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic. The election will test Georgia’s ability to further consolidate its democracy, give opposition forces an opportunity to strengthen and diversify their voices in parliament, challenge the governing Georgian Dream coalition to persuade the Georgian people they deserve to remain in power, and will chart Georgia’s political course for the next four years. This panel of Georgian and American scholars and activists will discuss this election and its meaning from several key perspectives.
PANELISTS
Michael Hikari Cecire, non-resident scholar at the Frontier Europe Initiative, Middle East Institute; Director of the Eurasia Democratic Security Network
Anna Dolidze, Georgian politician, lawyer, scholar, writer and public speaker
Laura Linderman, senior fellow at the Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Alex Scrivener, analyst; 2019-2020 Eurasia Democratic Security Network fellow at the Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi
Moderator: Lincoln Mitchell, political analyst, pundit, and writer; associate research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
