The ICRI publishes the journal of Caucasology, entitled Amirani. Articles concerning the peoples, cultures and languages of the Caucasus, from the perspective of any of the humanities or social sciences, will be considered for publication. The articles may be written in English, French, Georgian, German, Russian, or any other language accessible to a significant number of Caucasologists.
Religion, moral criteria form the absolute axiological (value) basis of culture, which gives the form of social law (norms) to the obligations and good will. It is namely participation in God's heavenly realm or "wellbeing" which motivates the orientation of seasonal labor habits and holidays on the church calendar and the order of sacrifice, which was considered by the people as a universal obligation similar to lighting a candle in the cathedral.
Ethnogenesis, the origin and formation of ethnic entities, is constituted as the object of multidisplinary study (by the disciplines of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, etc.), since an ethnos is by its nature a multi-faceted object, and cannot be adequately studied by the methods of a single social science. Multidisciplinary research is accompanied by a number of difficulties, of course, which must be overcome before undertaking the analysis of a specific region at a specific time.
Studies of complex rhythmical-melodical structures show, that they are based on the principal of parallelism. This poetic model is widely spread all over the world, beginning with the Jewish poetry and church music antiphons and ending with refined Greek, Italian and English poems. Parallelism is the principal mean of the poetic technique in the Chinese poetry too. We meet the same architectonic model in the Egyptian manuscripts and in the oral practice (literature/ of different people.