Julie is a retired professor from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, specialized in Russian language and literature. Irakli is the chair of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation Georgia. In this episode, Julie and Irakli talk about how they met back in the 1990s at George Mason University and how they are now collaborating on a television program called War & Peace Times in Georgia which has the objective to elevate the discussion of peace in this challenging time in the South Caucasus.