Ms. Mariam Amashukeli is a Tbilisi based Sociologist. She has been working as a researcher at the Center for Social Sciences (CSS) since 2012. She is doing her PhD in Sociology at Tbilisi State University. Her research interests are mostly in Europeanization mechanisms in the ENP countries, religious radicalization and violent extremism in the wider Caucasus region and quality assurance strategies in European higher education systems. Along with various research projects she leads her own organization mainly concentrated on civil activism. Ms.

On 20 November 2017, CEU’s Center for European Neighborhood Studies hosted an international conference titled “Battle for and in Ukraine: Debating Global and Regional Security Architecture”. It was co-organized with the Bratislava-based STRATPOL Strategic Policy Institute and with generous financing from the International Visegrad Fund.