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Margarita Akhvlediani is a founder and editor-in-chief of Go Group/Eye Witness Reporting Studio, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She also teaches Conflict Reporting, Journalism Ethics and Media Management courses to graduate students at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. She was a Caucasus Programme Director for Institute for War and Peace Reporting in 2002-2008, managing and training journalists in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the North Caucasian regions of Russia. She worked as a reporter, editor and producer at Georgian newspapers, radio and TV stations, throughout the civil war and social breakdown of the country in the early 1990s. In 2006, she won a Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalism and spent a year at Stanford University. In 2007, she won a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma. She published over 300 articles in local and international media including The Nation.com, Suddeutsche Zeitung, OSCE Review - European Security, Small Wars & Insurgencies and co-edited the book “War and Peace in the Caucasus”, published in 2005.