- label
- Peace vs War / Security Fear Framing
- category
- Sovereignty
- code
- GEO-NF-01
- definition
- Georgia-specific narrative frame in which the regime portrays all democratic opposition, civil society, independent media, and Western donors as agents seeking to drag Georgia into war, unrest, and revolution. Exploits Georgia's direct experience of Russian occupation and war to frame democratic actors as security threats. The "peace" message is monopolized by the regime; any criticism of government or support for democratic standards is coded as pro-war or destabilizing. Analytically distinct from NF-01 (Foreign Agent labeling) and NF-06 (Destabilization) because it operates through fear of war specifically, leveraging the Georgian population's lived experience of conflict with Russia.
- detection signal
- Regime officials invoke war/peace dichotomy when discussing civil society or opposition; protests framed as violent regardless of evidence; "peace" messaging deployed against democratic actors; opponents labeled as "radicals" or "war-mongers"
- needs review
- false
- typical claims
- "They want to drag Georgia into war like Ukraine"; "Western-funded NGOs are organizing revolution"; "Peaceful Georgia vs. radical opposition"; "Foreign donors pay for Molotov cocktails"; "EU integration means war with Russia"
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