Within the framework of the forthcoming international CORE seminar on “Conflict Prevention by the OSCE”, jointly organized with the Kazakh National University (KAZGU) in Almaty for the end of November 2009, three visiting scholars from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Moldova spent their research fellowships at CORE in Hamburg from August – October 2009. The fellowships were sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Marem Buzurtanova, from the Faculty for International Relations of the Kazakh National University in Almaty, spent one month in August; Eraj Ramazonov from the Faculty for International Relations of the Tajik State University in Dushanbe spent two months from August to September and Dr Diana Bencheci from the faculty for International Relations, Political and Administrative Sciences at the Moldovan State University in Chisinau two months from September-October 2009. Together with Dr Diana Digol and Dr Anna Kreikemeyer the visiting fellows worked on preparations for the international seminar on “Conflict Prevention by the OSCE” at the Kazakh National University. Beyond that they wrote studies on the European Dimension of Kazakh Foreign Policy (Buzurtanova), the role of Russia, China, the USA and the EU in Central Asia (Ramazonov) and on the conflict in Transnistria (Bencheci).

Contact: Dr Anna Kreikemeyer