Background
He was the son of the famous Georgian revolutionary Gaioz Devdariani who was executed during the Great Purge in 1938 by orders of Joseph Stalin. David was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and attended the Russian gymnasium in Ukraine. In 1950, just before applying for university studies in Tbilisi, he was arrested by Ministry of the Interior (former People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs) for being “the son of the enemy of the people” (Russian: "сын врага народа") and charged with Article 58 of counter-revolutionary activities.
Career
In Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) operated jail Devdariani suffered a great ordeal of which effects lasted throughout his life. While imprisoned Devdariani began a dissident activities for Independence of Georgia from Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Soon after his release Devdariani enrolled in the Tbilisi State University and graduated with honours from the Faculty of Law. During the pro-independence movement in Tbilisi in 1989, Devdariani was involved in various demonstrations and activities for the support of Georgian independence.
In 1992-1993, he began petitioning and working for the peaceful conflict settlement in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Devdariani wrote numerous appeals and letters to the United Nations, heads of G8 and introduced his reform proposal of United Nations Security Council to Kofi Annan. Devdariani published numerous books and articles on Law, United Nations reforms and Conflictology.
In 2005, he published the book: "The Oath Book of the 21st Century," which contained propositions and recommendations for the reformation of United Nations and the peaceful settlements of Post-Soviet conflicts. David Devdariani died in Tbilisi on June 13, 2006 from cancer.
Politics
In 1956 after condemnation of Stalinism in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Devdariani was released by the orders of Nikita Khrushchev (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union).
