Jana (Darejan) Javakhishvili, PhD in Psychology, Senior Advisor at the non-governmental foundation Global Initiative on Psychiatry Tbilisi, Associated professor and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at llia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a co-founder of the two innovative masters programs in the same university: Mental Health MA program and Addiction Studies MA Program. She has been working in trauma research, training and treatment since 1995. Since 2002 she has been engaged in the field of conflict transformation as a facilitator for peace building processes in Georgia and the South Caucasus. She is a current president of the Georgian Society of Psychotrauma; Board of Directors Member and Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Contact Person in the South Caucasus. She is a co-author and co-editor of a number of books and scientific articles in Georgian, Russian and English, published in Georgia, Armenia, England, Norway, Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12449,"template":"","years_alumni":[244],"class_list":["post-12448","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-244"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n