Orenburg state university

Prevention and resolution of interethnic conflicts is on the agenda

The Basque Country (Spain) hosted the XXIII annual Seminar for the Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts “Interethnic Relations: Methods for Measuring and Projecting of Risks”. Venaliy Amelin, director of the OSU Research Institute of History and Ethnography of the Southern Urals took part in the event.

Scientists and experts examined the problems of monitoring the ethnopolitical situation and ethnic conflicts prevention, migration and civil consent, interethnic relations risks measurement.

Valery Tishkov, the network founder, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, opened the seminar with the report “Measuring the risks of interethnic relations in the Russian Federation”.

Venaliy Amelin, director of the OSU Research Institute of History and Ethnography of the Southern Urals made a report on migration problems in the Orenburg region. These issues are also relevant for Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern Federal District, and Volga Federal District regions.

Colleagues from the Baltic States spoke about the relationship between Estonians and non-Estonians and analyzed interethnic relations in Latvia. The participants studied methods for monitoring and forecasting of ethnopolitical processes in the North Caucasus. They discussed Bashkortostan language policy and the language situation in Tatarstan. An expert from Kazakhstan presented the results of the study on Kazakhstani youth's common conceptualization about Russia. The peculiarities of the expert assessment of the situation in Tajikistan aroused a lot of interest.