Mariam Darchiashvili is an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at Ilia State University, Georgia. Her research focuses on migration and mobilities, informality and networks, and everyday peacemaking, drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement with rural communities in Georgia and with Russian migration to Georgia. Since 2023, she has been part of the IFSH project "Local Peace in Central Eurasia: Studying Peace Formation in Customary and Patronal Contexts," committed to interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology and critical peace studies.