Arda Inal-Ipa is the Abkhaz coordinator of the UC Irvine–sponsored cross-conflict Georgian-Abkhaz peacebuilding dialogue of representatives from civil society organizations. Since its inception in 1994, she has been the Deputy Director of Research Programs at the Center for Humanitarian Programs, one of the longest-standing NGOs in Abkhazia.

She works on a range of civil society development issues, conflict transformation and civic education. Before working in her current positions, she served as a researcher at the the Abkhaz Research Institute of Language, History and Literature. Inal-Ipa holds a degree from Moscow State University's Department of Psychology.

Inal Khashig is founder and editor of Chegemskaya Pravda, an independent newspaper in Abkhazia. Earlier he worked at the State Information Agency "Apsni Press." Since 2002 Inal has also been co-editor of the Caucasian newspaper Panorama. In 2000, with support from the BBC and the British NGO "Conciliation Resources," he facilitated a series of radio broadcasts entitled "No Peace, No War," about post-war life in Abkhaz and Georgian communities. He has participated in several Georgian-Abkhaz civil society peacebuilding dialogues.

Tinatin Khidasheli is president of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association. As head of the association, Khidasheli has created dispute-resolution programs on a global level and lobbied for the creation of state-run legal aid services for the poor and disenfranchised. As one of the most public figures in recent political upheavals in Georgia, Khidasheli defended detained political activists in Georgian courts and spoke forcefully in press interviews about the need for democratic reforms. She is also a member of the National Anti-Corruption Council in Georgia. After returning to Georgia from a stay in the United States, Khidasheli joined the Republican Party of Georgia, an opposition party.

She became head of the Tbilisi organization and of the Party Electoral Office in preparation for local elections in the fall of 2006. She has participated in several Georgian-Abkhaz civil society peacebuilding dialogues.

Temuri Yakobashvili is executive vice-president of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. Yakobashvili is also a member of the Governing Board of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), and country coordinator of the PFP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. He joined the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991 and held various positions, including that of director of the Department for USA, Canada and Latin America. Yakobashvili has a degree in physics from Tbilisi State University. He was a Yale World Program Fellow (2002) and participant in the Executive Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.