Dr Adrian Florea (PhD Indiana University) is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Convener of the Global Security Program at the University of Glasgow. He is currently engaged in three large research projects. The first investigates the survival and disappearance of post-WWII de facto states (breakaway entities, like Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh,…
Dr. Rano Turaeva-Hoehne is a Senior Researcher affiliated at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and is a part-time lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She also is an independent expert and consultant, writing expert reports on various issues including: minority groups, religious groups and…
Arzu Geybullayeva is a regional analyst and freelance journalist. She is also currently at The Foreign Policy Research Institue on Democratic Transitions as an associate scholar providing analysis on the situation in Azerbaijan. She has worked for a number of organizations- European Stability Initiative (Istanbul-Baku), National Democratic Institute (Baku), and is currently with the Imagine…
Professor Bowring is a Barrister and academic with research experience in Russia, Eastern and Central Europe. He is fluent in Russian and focuses on issues relating to human rights, minority rights, education policy, law reform, judicial reform, and reform of the penitentiary system. In 2003, he founded (and now chairs) the European Human Rights Advocacy…
Dr Ohannes Geukjian is a Lebanese citizen of Armenian descent. He received his PhD in 2005 from the Department of Peace Studies in Bradford University UK and wrote his dissertation on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Ethno-Territorial Conflict in the South Caucasus. He is currently a lecturer of political science at the American University of Beirut…