Staff Profile
Professor
Ainura Elebaeva is the president and academic adviser for the Center for Social Research.She is also the Deputy Rector (academic), the International University of Kyrgyzstan and Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities of the Kyrgyz National University.
Professor Elebaeva has an interest in theory of conflict resolutions, multiculturalism and inter-ethnic relations and she has published extensively in various Russian and international journals. She is a leading authority on ethnic policies and conflict resolution in post-Soviet Central Asia and is a member of the editorial committee of the international Journal 'Central Asia and Caucasus' (Sweden). Her book 'Interethnic Relations in Post-Soviet States of Central Asia: Dynamic of development' was published in 1996 with the support of the grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Her latest publication is "Socio-Political Changes and Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Kyrgyz Republic" in: Ethnicity and Political Identity in Central Asia. Ed. by Yoshihiro Kimura. (Tohoku University (Japan), 1999). (In English) *Associate Professor
Nurbek Omuraliev (Ph.D.) is the Director of the Center for Social Research.He is also the Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities of the Kyrgyz National University. Associate Professor Omuraliev has an interest in theory of social studies, multiculturalism and inter-ethnic relations and he has published a number of academic and popular articles in various Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Russian journals.
In 1995-1997, he was a contributor to the UNDP annual Human development Report on the Kyrgyz Republic. He also conducted several studies on the economic reforms and social changes in Kyrgyzstan for the World Bank and IMF. * Mira Karybaeva (Ph.D.) is a research associate of the Centre for Social Research.She is also the Director of the Office of Adenauer Foundation in Kyrgyzstan. Dr. Karybaeva has an interest in women studies, multiculturalism and inter-ethnic relations and he has published a number of academic and popular articles in various Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Russian journals.
* Rafis Abazov (Ph.D.) is a research associate of the Centre for Social Research (on sabbatical leave). Rafis Abazov graduated from Kyrgyz State University and received his Kandidat Nauk degree (Political Science) from Moscow, Russia. He worked as a researcher with Research Group of the Kyrgyz National Academy of Science. He has won research fellowships at La Trobe University (Australia), the University of Tokyo and the United Nations University (Japan) and was awarded by a NATO research grant for a research on foreign policy formation in Central Asia republics (1996). He is an author of two books and he has number of publications on Soviet and post-Soviet political and economic reforms in various Kazakhstan, Russian and international academic journals. Most recent articles has been published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Post-Communist Economies, Central Asian Survey, MEIMO and some other journals. Back to Home Page