Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 14th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview IV. Working Group on Democratic Governance of Multiethnic... Author(s) Dea Chkhaidze Foundation for Development of Human Resources Tbilisi Georgia Title PA education in Georgia and multiethnic involvement File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The research theme covers the multiethnic inclusion issue in PA education system of Georgia. The subject is quite new for our country and there is small experience of PA education in general and it is quite undeveloped. The situation is much more pessimistic regarding the issue of ethnic minority’s inclusion into the PA structure. However, country is ethnically diverse, there are several minority-populated regions and multiethnic concept of education is very important for policy-making in such kind of country. Several PA education high schools are established in Georgia during last 10 years and the faculties of PA education are functioning in several universities. This paper gives the cases of the learning system of these institutions, their curricula and inclusion of ethnic issue-related topics into the schools agenda. It is analyzed the legislative bases of ethnic minorities’ rights, Georgian constitution and other national and international documents that are signed by the Georgian government concerning ethnic issues. The result of the research in this direction is not quite optimistic and there are lots of problems and gaps between legislation and real situation. As the ethnic issues are not considered in the PA high or specialized schools curricula, the alternative ways of diversity inclusion will be discussed in the frame of NGO, Georgian public and some international institutions activities for deep study and inclusion of the subject into curricula of high educational institutions. As the PA education is one of the most privileged challenges now in Georgia and is one of the most painful issues, it is interesting to look trough the employment statistics of the graduate students in Public Administration bodies. In the end of the research it will be discussed the attempt to find out the ways of involvement of multiethnic issue into the curricula of the PA education institutions.
