“Community Rehabilitation of the Tsiskarauli Tower” was an ALIPH-funded partnership project by INTO, the National Trust of Georgia and REMPART following a model of community restoration to rehabilitate the missile-damaged Tsiskarauli Tower through working holidays.
Community Rehabilitation of the Tsiskarauli Tower” was a three-year partnership project between the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO), the National Trust of Georgia and REMPART, supported by the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) that followed a model of community restoration to rehabilitate the Tsiskarauli Tower. Suffering significant structural damage in 2001 during the Russian-Chechen conflict, the monument was left at risk of collapse and in urgent need of stabilisation. Learning from examples in France and the UK facilitated via secondments for National Trust staff in Georgia, restoration was delivered through a series of volunteer working holidays. Georgian and international volunteers collaborated under supervision of conservation architects and heritage experts, to rehabilitate this unique example of Khevsuretian defensive architecture. Bringing together skilled and previously unskilled hands, these camps allowed for the transference of traditional heritage skills, and a common ground of cultural understanding across borders, which holds a profound legacy. Previously an emblem of conflict and aggression, the monument now exemplifies the reparative potential of international peace-building through heritage restoration.
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