A 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.’
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.