Toward a Just Peace after the Georgian Civil War

Abstract

The Georgian civil war may be at an end since Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, even though no other country has followed suit except Nicaragua. Whether or not the current cessation of violence leads to peace depends on how these ‘new’ countries are treated by the international community. Peace in the region will require a radical shift in foreign aid policies, specifically an end to all assistance to the separatists, negotiations with Moscow to pick up the slack, and Russian compensation made to the nearly half-million Georgian ‘refugees’ for their lost property.