October 21 - 30, 2026
We just completed this year's Community Trip, this time we took about 30 community members through Georgia and Armenia, and had an incredible journey.
In Georgia, we learned about the end of the Soviet Union, the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and how current geopolitical dynamics can be understood. Georgian scholars and civil society leaders joined us for a round table in Tbilisi, and we spent time with communities displaced by those conflicts.
In Armenia, we visited Tsitsernakaberd, the memorial to the 1915 genocide, and heard from leading genocide scholars. In the border town Gyumri we learned how the city has rebuilt since the 1988 earthquake, and went to the Turkish border, closed since 1993. In Yerevan, journalists and civic leaders shared their views on the current peace process with Azerbaijan.
Throughout the trip we kept coming back to questions on how a society carries its past, and how that shape the way people live with their neighbors today.
Thank you to all the people, speakers and hosts who welcomed us. Next year’s Community Trip (September 20 -29, 2027) will go to Germany and Poland. We will look at the rise of the far right in both countries and at how the legacies of World War II and the institutions built afterward shape it. If you are already interested in joining please feel free to reach out.
