Projekt

The project builds on the experiences and results of the preceding, transfer project "Understanding Local Conflicts, Using Development Opportunities". The State University of Kabardino-Balkaria in Nalchik (KBSU) established a Master Programme on the sociology of conflict and founded a Graduate School (Graduiertenkolleg) for empirical conflict research. The leading teachers in both programmes are active participants of the transfer process and are using the theoretical and practical foundations of institution centred conflict research. ICCS now wishes to secure what has been achieved and expand it regarding three aspects: (1) ICCS intends to expand the teaching and research programme to Adygheya in the North Caucasus, to Abkhazia as well as to Adjara in the South Caucasus. (2) For the teaching component, ICCS intends to open the existing master programme at Nalchik University to three additional universities in the region. In cooperation with the Centre for Conflict Research at University Marburg and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) in Bielefeld, ICCS will enhance teaching and also create an option for graduation in Germany. (3) In the field of research, ICCS intends to use the Graduate School at Nalchik University as anchor for PhD Students and post-PhD researchers from the region to conduct methodologically sound empirical conflict research. This will be achieved via an initial summer school held at Nalchik University, via a series of workshops conducted at the new partner universities, via research grants and via extended in-field backup provided by the German project management and its partners in Marburg (CCS) and Bielefeld (IKG). Both components will help create an urgently needed pool of empirically informed and methodologically trained local experts on this region.

• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Daxner

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
  Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
  SFB 700 "Governance in Räumen begrenzter
  Staatlichkeit"
  Berlin
  

• Dr. Jan Koehler

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
  SFB 700 "Governance in Räumen begrenzter
  Staatlichkeit"
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Timur Tenov

  Kabardino-Balkarian State University
  The Department of Social and Political Theories
  and Technologies
  Nartkala
  Russland
  

• Prof. Dr. Aslan Chechenov

  Kabardino-Balkarian State University
  Department of Theory and Technology of Social Work
  Kashkhatau
  Russland
  

• Prof. Dr. Murat Shogenov

  Kabardino-Balkarian State University
  Department of Theory and Technology of Social Work
  Nalchik
  Russland
  

• Prof. Dr. Svetlana Lyausheva

  Adyghe State University (ASU)
  The Department of Postgraduate Studies and
  Dissertation Council
  Maikop
  Russland
  

• Prof. Dr. Dalila Piliya

  Abkhazian State University
  Sukhumi
  Georgien
  

• Dr. Ruslan Baramidze

  Shota Rustaveli State University
  Niko Berdzenishvili Institute
  Batumi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker

  Universität Marburg
  Zentrum für Konfliktforschung
  Marburg
  

• Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer

  Universität Bielefeld
  Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und
  Gewaltforschung
  XE1-280
  Bielefeld
  

• Koehler, Jan/Gunya, Alexey/Shogenov, Murat/Tumov, Asker 2020: Violence and the Dynamics of Political Settlements in Post-Soviet Kabardino-Balkaria

• Insurgency Informed Governance in the North Caucasus: Observations from Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria

• Governing the Local in the North Caucasus

• Institution-centered conflict research: Investigating patterns and dynamics of state society relations in three peruvian regions through the lens of local conflicts