{"id":385,"name":"Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Ashley Smith, and Sopho Verdzeuli","url":"","description":"<strong>Vano Abramashvili<\/strong> is a founding member of the Movement for Social Democracy in Georgia. His professional focus is on researching the conflicts in South Caucasus. He is an author of various analytical publications dealing with peace and security in the region and is a contributor to several Georgian online magazines on South Caucasus affairs. He holds a MA degree in Peace Studies, Diplomacy and International Politics from Tbilisi State University and has studied EU-Russia studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia.\r\n\r\n<strong>Maia Barkaia<\/strong> is a founding member of the Movement for Social Democracy and an associate professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). She holds a B.A. in Oriental Studies, an M.A. in Modern Indian History, and a Ph.D. in Gender Studies. These academic backgrounds have shaped her research and teaching interests, which center on Postcolonial and Gender Studies. Her work explores themes such as Imperial Entanglements, Modernity, and Inequalities in the Caucasus and Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries. She is also the co-editor with Alisse Waterston of Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus, published by Berghahn Books (2017, 2021).\r\n\r\n<strong>Ia Eradze<\/strong> is a founding member of the Movement for Social Democracy. She is a political economist, with a research focus on finance in the post-socialist space. She is currently an associate professor at the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs (GIPA) and a CERGE-EI Foundation teaching fellow. She is also a researcher at the Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sopho Verdzeuli<\/strong> is a founding member of the Movement for Social Democracy. She holds a Master's degree in Constitutional Politics, Law, and Theory. She is currently a researcher in judicial politics and the editor of the platform 'Komentari.' She has worked for over ten years in human rights organizations, including serving as the Director of the Justice and Democracy Program at the Center for Social Justice. She is the author of several published studies on the judiciary, law enforcement systems, and security policy. Her research interests focus on the issue of juridification in institutional reforms, as well as the interaction between law and politics from a critical legal perspective.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ashley Smith<\/strong> is a member of the Tempest Collective in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Spectre, Truthout, Jacobin, New Politics, and many other online and print publications.","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/author\/abramashvili_barkaia_eradze_smith_verdzeuli\/","slug":"abramashvili_barkaia_eradze_smith_verdzeuli","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff1de701e9346b3322944b45f1d5da190819e7b2b21691c1824e8b7ff03c250f?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff1de701e9346b3322944b45f1d5da190819e7b2b21691c1824e8b7ff03c250f?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff1de701e9346b3322944b45f1d5da190819e7b2b21691c1824e8b7ff03c250f?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}