© UnknownIronic that this pathological war monger is going to teach diplomats!
A US-educated lawyer and leader of 'The Rose Revolution' in 2003, Saakashvili, 46, who has become increasingly unpopular at home, stepped down in November after serving two terms as president. His rule was defined by closer ties with the US and deteriorated relations with Russia which hit a low after a brief military conflict in August 2008 over South Ossetia.
The former Georgian leader, who has not been seen in Georgia since last month, will conduct major addresses and lectures on European governance and other contemporary international and regional issues at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the school said in a statement.
"I am very honored to be working with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, one of the greatest institutions specialized in these fields in the world," Saakashvili said in a statement. "I am back to my roots as my educational background has everything to do with law and diplomacy. I will also get a chance to share the practical experience I acquired throughout the last several years."
Saakashvili studied law at the prestigious Kiev University Institute of International Relations and received his master of laws from Columbia University. He studied law at the doctoral level at the George Washington University National Center of Law in Washington, D.C. and obtained a diploma in Comparative Law of Human Rights from The International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
In his farewell presidential address to the nation in October, the Georgian leader said: "I do not need a rest, but time has come when you have to rest from me."
Dear editor(s), are you sure it is black and white situation when you put a label of tyrant on this man? He might got money from US and acted in US interests, but he did a lot for Georgia people. Corruption levels dropped dramatically after he started his term, police force was entirely reformed with no old staff left and became one of the best on the territory of former USSR. Of course you won't find it on RIA Novosti site. And Ossetia was actually a part of Georgia territory when the conflict emerged, and technically it's under Russian occupation now. There was information about provocations from Ossetia side, about Russian passports given to every Ossetian citizen before the conflict. And after the conflict was information about destruction of Tskhinvali and decimation of nearly 2000 citizens ever confirmed? Shouldn't we know trees by their fruits? And it the end of his term Saakashvili didn't fix the constitution to stay a bit longer in the chair like his "conquerer" did.