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PANEL K1
Mnemonic and Identity Politics, Radicalization and Peacebuilding in the Russian North Caucasus, Georgia
and Ukraine in the late Soviet and Post-1991 Periods
Thursday May 18, 11.00 AM-1.00 PM • Room 403
Caucasus
CHAIR
Leila Wilmers
(Cornell U, US)
PAPERS
Cécile Druey
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
Mobilisation and Radicalisation in Late Soviet Chechnya (1986–1991)
Elena Natenadze
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
The Narrative-based Framework for Conflict Transformation:
the Case of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict of 1992-1993
Tamar Demurishvili
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
tamar.demurishvili@students.unibe.ch
(Post-)Soviet State and Local Heritage (Kraevedcheskie) Museums in Georgia:
Official and Public Memory Work from the 1970s to the Present
Oksana Myshlovska
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
The Government Policies of Recognition and “Identity Backlash”
during the Period of Yushchenko’s Presidency
DISCUSSANT
Gulnaz Sibgatullina
(U of Amsterdam, Netherlands/GWU, US)
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