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Project description |
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Overview map of the participating
institutes |
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The website of the Monitoring
of ethnicity, conflicts and cohesion Project at the Russian Academy of
Sciences |
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Progress Report of the project |
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7th EAWARN Annual Seminar Kemer, Turkey, 16-20 October 2000 |
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Testing the Early Warning Model
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Ufa, Bashkiria, Russia, 1-4 June 1997
During this meeting, EAWARN members discussed a model for early
warning of ethnic conflict based on 46 indicators, which have been studied
in six countries and regions during 1996 and in the first half of 1997.
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Bringing Networks Together
(EAWARN Annual Seminar, 8-12 October 1996,
Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) |
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Contact information |
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Forthcoming Publications on Ethnological Monitoring:
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Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation
by Svetlana Akkieva
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The following publications are available in English:
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The Republic of Kalmykia, A Model of Ethnological Monitoring, by Elza-Bair Guchinova, in Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 11-90, 1999 |
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The Republic of Tuva, A Model of Ethnological Monitoring, by Zoia Anaiban, in Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 13-96, 1999 |
Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia contains unabridged translations of manuscripts, articles and parts of books. Materials are selected which best reflect developments in anthropology and archeology in the Newly Independent States and are of most interest to those professionally concerned with these fields.
English translations by M.E. Sharpe, ISSN 1061-1959/1999, $9.50 + 0.00
© 1999 M.E.Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved
If you would like to receive ordering information, please contact:
M. E. Sharpe Publishing
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Armonk, NY 10504
Tel: 1-800-541-6563
On Internet: http://www.mesharpe.com/
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Ethnological Monitoring:
Bashkiria, Russian Federation
(PDF format)
by El'dar Gabdrafikov, Moscow, 1998
available in Russian
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Buriatia (PDF
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by Lubov Abaeva and Sogto Tsyrenov, Moscow, 1999
available in Russian |
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Kalmykia (PDF
format)
by Elza-Bair Guchinova, Moscow: IEA RAS, 1997
available in Russian and in French (summary)
The model of early warning applied in this case study analyses the situation
in Kalmykia during 1995 and 1996. According to the results, the general
trend has been a deterioration in the environmental, demographic and economic
spheres, and improvements in the political, cultural, ethno-psychological
and international spheres. |
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Karelia (PDF
format)
by Evgueni Klementiev, Moscow: IEA RAS, 1998
available in Russian
The author completed an investigation that filled in the gap in the presently available analysis of the modern social and economic situation in the Republic of Karelia. This publication draws attention to the interdependence between local ethnic cultures that may be perceived as a renewable source of ethnic peace and cooperation. It also contains interesting comparative data analysed in a historical context.
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Kazakhstan (PDF
format)
by Nurbulat Masanov and Igor Savin, Moscow: Institute of Ethnology
and Anthropology, 1997
available in Russian and in French (summary)
This case study covers principal changes in the ethnopolitical situation
of Kazakhstan in the following seven major public spheres: environmental,
economic, demographic, political (including ethno-political), cultural,
ethnopsychological and international. According to the case study evaluations,
the two most problematic spheres in which there has been a marked decline
are the economy and ethnopolitics. With the exception of international
relations, the dynamics in almost every other sector have also been assessed
as negative. |
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Ethnological Monitoring:
Khanty-Mansi Region, Russian Federation
(PDF format)
by Igor Kosikov and Lidia Kosikova, Moscow, 1998
available in Russian
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Ethnological Monitoring:
Krasnodarski Region, Russian Federation
(PDF format)
by Evgueni Kritski and Mikhail Savva, Moscow, 1998
available in Russian
The situation in Krasnodar Region (administrative unit "Krai" of the
Russian Federation) today is far from stable. Meskhetian Turks, Kurds,
Armenians, Slavic and others refugees demand the resolution of their problems.
At the same time aboriginal people - shapsugs - strive to preserve their
language and ethnic tradition. The third side is the local Russian population,
that is the most numerous. Russians, and especially Cossacks (Cossack movements)
want to stop the influx of refugees. These and other issues are tackled
by E.Kritsky and M.Savva through the study of the results of different
sociological surveys in the region. |
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Ethnological Monitoring:
Omsk Region, Russian Federation
(PDF format)
by Ilia Lotkin, Moscow, 1998
available in Russian
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Ethnological Monitoring:
Orenburg Region, Russian Federation
(PDF format)
by Venali Amelin, Moscow: IEA RAS, 1997
available in Russian
This case study, written by Prof. Amelin, is based upon current data
on social, ethnic and economic life in the Orenburg Region. In the former
USSR, the Orenburg Region was a semi-rural district with a predominantly
Russian population. After the collapse of the USSR the situation has dramatically
changed. Now Orenburg is one of the Russian frontier territories, neighbouring
with the Republic of Kazakhstan, which gives it a key geopolitical position.
Political stability and interethnic tolerance are important factors for
peace and good neighbourly relations between Russia and the Central Asian
republics. |
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Tatarstan
by Rafik Abdrachmanov and Elmira Mavrina, Moscow, 1999
available in Russian
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Ethnological Monitoring:
the Republic of Tuva
by Zoia Anaiban, Moscow: IEA RAS, 1996
available in Russian and in French (summary)
This case study focuses on changes in the overall situation in Tuva
during 1995-1996. The results suggest that there has been a considerable
decline in the economic, environmental and demographic spheres, and marked
improvements in cultural life and interethnic and international relations. |
The management of multi-ethnic societies and of ethnic conflicts represents
a major challenge to the post-communist world. Extreme forms of ethno-nationalism,
xenophobia and ethnic violence have become obstacles to democratic and
economic transitions in a number of regions in the Russian Federation and
in several countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. At
the same time several countries in these regions are managing to move towards
a peaceful multicultural and multi-ethnic modern democratic society. The
strategies and mechanisms for governing multi-ethnicity in the current
period of important social transformations are not obvious to many researchers
and policy-makers. Therefore UNESCO has recently adopted a policy-oriented
project in the framework of the MOST programme to monitor and analyse ethnic
relations in the region with the objective of providing practical information
to policy-makers on the prevention of ethnic conflict and the promotion
of pluralistic democracy.
Ethnological monitoring and policy-oriented communication are powerful
tools for conflict prevention and for responsible decision-making in complex
societies. Valuable information on ethnicity and conflict issues in many
of the newly independent states is being collected, but it is accumulated
in incompatible formats and remains scattered, making it inaccessible to
researchers and policy-makers. This project seeks to improve that situation
through the creation of an information network, training of researchers,
reporting of ethnicity issues and dissemination of relevant policy information. |
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