A Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate is among four featured activists in the USAID’s #WeAreSakartvelo campaign “helping build a more resilient, democratic, and prosperous society.”
The social media campaign is also raising awareness about citizen-activisits from different regions, ethnicities and religious communities. the importance of civic integration to Georgia’s development.
Sakartvelo is the native name of the country.
Kamran Mammadli, a citizen of the Republic of Georgia with an ethnic Azerbaijani background, is a 2019 graduate of the conflict transformation program. He attended as a Fulbright Scholar.
Mammadli is now a researcher for the Social Justice Center, a NGO that studies the rights of ethnic groups, including social and political issues.
In 2019, he co-founded Platform Salam, an organization made up of ethnic Azerbaijanis living in Georgia which helps communities organize and advocate for their needs. He explains: “When we go somewhere where there is a problem, we do not say ‘we will help you.’ Instead, we say ‘we should work together to change the existing reality.’
Visit the USAID webpage to learn more about his story and those of other activists working to strengthen Georgia.
The USAID campaign also features Vardi Papikyan, a student at Tbilisi State Medical University; Tigran Tarzyan, a civil rights activist; and Samira Bayramova, human rights activist.