The Center for Peace and International Relations Studies (CPIRS)
Tbilisi, Georgia

The Center for Peace and International Relations Studies (CPIRS) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organisation founded in February 1998, Tbilisi, Georgia by five individuals from various research centers of Georgia.

The organisation aims to promote democracy and free market values in Georgia; to accelerate Georgia's integration into the open interstate world system; to promote peace and international co-operation in Caucasus.

The organisation is involved in research and consulting. In the frames of the organisation has elaborated reports on the Europe-Asia Transport Corridor, conceptual issues of the Georgian foreign policy and problems of regional security.

One of current projects of the organisation is a creation of web-archive. The starting point is the site you are visiting now. This project targets several important reasons. First of all, we would like to collect all useful material available on international relations, peace and security, international co-operation, etc. to help researchers and other people interested in this kind of information to have a compact, systematized database on their fingerprints. This site is expected to help foreign students and scientists, specialists who study Georgia, Georgia's foreign policy, the subject of regional security building, Caucasus, prospects of international co-operation in Caucasus. Also we wish to provide Georgian students and scientists working abroad, or in Georgia, for governmental or non-governmental organisations related to international relations, security studies with maximum material for their work in efficient way. As you can see on our site, which is currently developing and growing up, we place here some useful links as well. For this moment, organisation is seeking for funds to improve the site, make this page home for serious researches and enhance the web-archive. We are also working on Georgia's foreign policy transparency enhancement project.

Since the time of its establishment, the organisation has maintained relations with various NGO's, governmental agencies and independent experts focused on peace and security, foreign policy, international co-operation, democracy and economical development issues.

The organisation has no permanent staff. According to its needs, the organisation recruits personnel on voluntary and/or contractual basis.