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OSCE Academy Board of Trustees Meeting

On 28 March the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the OSCE Academy held its first online meeting in 2022. The meeting was chaired by the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, Ambassador Alexey Rogov. Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC) and Mr. Marcin Czapliński, Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the OSCE in Vienna, greeted the participants of the meeting and expressed their full support to the Academy’s activities and its further development.

29 March, 2022
Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and Head of the Human Dimension Department delivered a Guest Lecture at the OSCE Academy

On 23 March 2022, the OSCE Academy hosted the lecture ‘Challenges to preventing and countering VERLT in Central Asia and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek’s relevant projects and activities’ delivered by Ambassador Alexey Rogov, Head of OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek (POiB), and Mr. Nicholas Mazik, Head of Human Dimension Department. This lecture was a part of the course ‘Contemporary Security Issues’ taught by Dr Elena Zhirukhina within MA Programme in Politics and Security.

23 March, 2022
Strengthening Youth Crime and Drug use Prevention through OSCE-Organized Workshop in Nur-Sultan

On 17 March 2022, a first need assessment workshop on strengthening youth crime and drug use prevention took place in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The workshop was organized by the Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in cooperation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.

18 March, 2022
Public Lecture on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Central Asian Water Sector

On 15 March 2022, Dr. Kinga Szálkai, Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations, Budapest Metropolitan University, and Associate Research Fellow at the OSCE Academy, delivered a Public Lecture on "Central Asian Water Cooperation after COVID-19: Could the Pandemic Challenge the Achievements of the Recent ‘Water Thaw’?”

15 March, 2022
Guest Lecture titled “Threats, opportunities and challenges of AI counter terrorism”

On 14 of March 2022, the OSCE Academy in Bishkek e-hosted the guest lecture by Mr. Odhran McCarthy, Programme Officer at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) titled ‘Threats, opportunities and challenges of AI counter terrorism.’ This lecture was a part of the course ‘Contemporary Security Issues’ taught by Dr Elena Zhirukhina within MA Programme in Politics and Security.

14 March, 2022
Strengthening Youth Crime and Drug use Prevention through OSCE-Organized Workshop in Tashkent

On 9 March 2022, the Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in co-operation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek organized a workshop on “Strengthening Youth Crime and Drug use Prevention” in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

11 March, 2022
Delegation from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University visits the OSCE Academy

On 9 March 2022 the OSCE Academy welcomed a Delegation from the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University for a meeting following the signing ceremony of the Cooperation Agreement on 28 February 2022. Prof. Dr. Serhat Burmaoglu, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Erendor, Head of the International Relations Department, Prof. Dr. Yunus Emre Gurbuz, Director of the Central Asian Research Centre, and Prof. Nuri Korkmaz, Associate Professor of International Relations, met the OSCE Academy Management and discussed the plans and the areas for potential cooperation.

9 March, 2022
Regional Manager of Border Management Programme in Central Asia delivered a lecture at the OSCE Academy

On 7 of March 2022, Mr. Maris Domins, Colonel, Regional Manager of Border Management Programme in Central Asia, Phase 10 (BOMCA10), delivered the lecture ‘Effective border and migration management as important aspect for public safety and regional development in Central Asia’ at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. This lecture was a part of the course ‘Contemporary Security Issues’ taught by Dr Elena Zhirukhina within MA Programme in Politics and Security.

7 March, 2022
Academy's Visiting Professor delivers a Lecture at the University of Texas

On 1 March 2022, Dr. Anja Mihr, DAAD Associate Professor at the OSCE Academy, gave an online guest lecture on "30 years independence from the Soviet Union: Central Asia at the Crossroad between Democracy and Autocracy" at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Anja Mihr provided an overview of democratic transitions and transformation processes in Central Asian countries since 1991.

2 March, 2022
Strengthening Youth Crime and Drug use Prevention through OSCE-Organized Workshop in Dushanbe

On 1 March 2022 the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in cooperation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek organized a Workshop on “Strengthening Youth Crime and Drug use Prevention” in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

1 March, 2022