Economic Issues and Ethnopolitical Tension: The Example of the Region of Samtskhe-Javakheti in Georgia**

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Peter Coebergh departs Brill as CEOBrill, the international academic publisher, announces today that Peter Coebergh will leave Brill as CEO when his term of office will come to an end after the annual general meeting of shareholders that is currently scheduled for 25 May, 2022.Peter Coebergh (1961) joined Brill in 2015 and held the position of EVP Marketing & Sales before being appointed as CEO in 2018. Prior to joining Brill, Peter held several senior executive positions at Springer Science & Business Media (now Springer Nature), which he joined in 2001.Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years. Under his leadership, Brill has further prepared itself for a continued positive development as a leading publisher in the field of humanities.

A conflict that did not happen: revisiting the Javakhk affair in Georgia

“…The developments in Javakhk in the period under consideration have been previously problematized mainly from the perspectives of Tbilisi's concerns and the Armenian minority's political grievances. Frequently raised concerns of inequality, discrimination, neglect, demands for autonomy, and language status were only one set of problems (ICG : 1–2; Evers /4; George ), issues related to common citizenship, ethnic‐coexistence, Georgian nationalism, negative stereotyping were also widely discussed (Broers : 277–8). Other problems existed in the context of domestic political challenges including ‘integration of minority groups into Georgian society’, ‘absence of broad social‐political consensus on the ethnic diversity of Georgia’, and ‘internal political and administrative systems’ (Nodia ).…”