Pulitzer Center Director Jon Sawyer traveled to Russia and throughout the South Caucasus, reporting on a region that is caught between East and West, North and South as well as its own conflicted history.
Javakheti
Published September 25, 2006
The mountains of Javakheti, along Georgia's southern border, hold some of the country's most beautiful scenery -- but also, among its ethnic Armenian population, some of the country's most wrenching poverty. The Georgian government has invested in road construction projects, relying in part on U.S. aid, to link this long-marginalized region to Tbilisi and other important markets. Residents complain of Georgian-language requirements for entry to national universities and employment discrimination. The work crews improving the main mountain roads, for example, are almost exclusively ethnic Georgian.
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The National Endowment for Democracy presents:
Brutal Censorship: Targeting Journalists in the North Caucasus
Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center's founder and executive director presents a lecture titled "Conflict and Context: Reporting from the Caucasus" to the
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Pulitzer Center staff
Contact Jon: jsawyer[AT]pulitzercenter.org
Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising...
