Paula Garb is Associate Director of Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine. She has facilitated a series of meetings on environmental issues and citizen diplomacy with Abkhaz and Georgian NGOs.

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Accord Issue 7: Georgia-Abkhazia

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