Kakabadze was not eligible to run due to his age, but he helped the liberation movement to win October 1990 elections by a wide margin.
During his work as peace and human rights activist in 1988–2010, Kakabadze was arrested and assaulted a number of times by the Soviet and Georgian police.
During his work as peace and human rights activist in 1988–2017, Kakabadze was arrested and assaulted a number of times by the Soviet and Georgian police.
In 1998-99 he took part in Shmazi performances together with American authors, including Yana Djin, Quique Aviles, singer Luci Murphy and musicians Allison Wolfe, and Natalie Avery.
The work of this theater under the leadership of Giorgi Sikharulidze and Irakli Kakabadze contributed significantly to the non-violent “Rose Revolution’ in November, 2003.
New method of creative peace building and nonviolent change called CREATE (Conflict Resolution through Expressive Artistic Transformation and Education) was first elaborated by Kakabadze at Cornell University together with Bruce Levitt in 2010-12 and in 2014-17 together with Georgian Director Irakli Gogia.
In 2016 Gandhi Center of Nonviolence and Peace was founded in Batumi State University that is located in autonomous republic of Adjara, Georgia.
Irakli Kakabadze was an Editor-in-Chief of the bi-lingual (Georgian-English) literary-social science magazine “Peace Times” in 2001–2004 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Polyphonic discourse as a method originates from traditional Georgian folk music and from the writings of Russian literary scientist Mikhail Bakhtin.
Together with his colleague Zurab Rtveliashvili, Kakabadze has used this technique to bring it to writing and performance – articulating different narratives at the same time.
Many critics connected these polyphonic performances with the advance of multicultural postmodern narrative in the West – but according to authors, this concept has its roots far deeper than simple trend on early 21st century.
In May 2008 Kakabadze shared a stage at PEN World Voices Festival in New York with György Dragomán, Hasan Elahi, Asli Erdogan, Péter Esterházy, Chenjerai Hove, Jenny Marketou, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Prose, and Ingo Schulze, at the Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State.
[20] In November 2008 at the Miami Book Fair Kakabadze shared a stage with Sarah Mkhonza, Russell Banks and Derek Walcott to perform another piece of Polyphonic Blues.
At the 2010 “PEN World Voices” Festival in New York Kakabadze performed Polyphonic Discourse at the Cabaret Show that featured the author with Natalie Merchant, Ben Okri and Ariel Dorfman.
At the 2010 “PEN World Voices” Festival in New York Kakabadze performed Polyphonic Discourse at the Cabaret Show that featured the author with Natalie Merchant, Ben Okri and Ariel Dorfman.