Track two diplomacy, civil society, peace process, Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

Since the 1960s came a large number of academics and former career diplomats with the idea of holding informal workshops for relevant representatives of civil society from both sides of the conflict. Their activities started to be known as Track Two Diplomacy. The need for a greater involvement of civil society and local NGOs, which should contribute to conflict transformation, received a new impetus in the period after the collapse of the bipolar world, which has brought a new wave of armed conflicts in the Caucasus. Although in both Abkhazia and Georgia, there is flourishing civil society and EU countries and many European NGOs strongly support peacebuilding activities in Abkhazia, conflict transformation in this frozen conflict is not a step closer than seventeen years ago, when peace process in Abkhazia began. This text will analyze the reasons for failure of a track two diplomacy in the Georgian-Abkhazian peace process.