Irakli Kakabadze has been a leading figure in the nonviolent movement for social change in Georgia for more than two decades.
A member of the Civic Disobedience Committee in 1989 and during the Rose Revolution in 2003, he has since been harassed and detained repeatedly by authorities.
He is the author of five books and hundreds of essays in English, Georgian, and Russian. His play Candidate Jokola controversially depicted a love story between a Georgian presidential candidate and an Abkhaz woman. He is also an author of lyrics for “Postindustrial Boys,” and, together with Zurab Rtveliashvili, practices a literary performance style Polyphonic Discourse.
He now teaches art and peacebuilding at Cornell University.
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