Prof. Valery A. TISHKOV, Ph.D.

Prof. Valery A. Tishkov is Professor of History and Anthropology, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also Director of the IEA Centre for the Study and Management of Conflicts. Prof. Tishkov is a former Minister for Nationalities in the Yeltsin government (1992) and acting member of the Russian State committee on migration policy. He participated working out Russia’s concept documents and legislation in the field of minority and migration policy, served as advisory member of several international agencies and committees (UNHCR, UNESCO) and international research institutions (PRIO, UNRISD).

Prof. Tishkov is a distinguished scientist, author of many scholarly books and reference editions on ethnicity, minorities, migrations and conflicts. His two books published in English are Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame (London: Sage 1997) and Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society (Berkeley: UCP 2004). He has conducted extensive field research on North American indigenous communities and research in conflict areas of the Former Soviet Union area, especially Caucasus and central Asia.

Prof. Tishkov is a founder and Director of the Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning and a founder of The Fund for Humanitarian Assistance to the Chechen Republic.