Biography
ANARA TABYSHALIEVA (Ph.D., Kyrgyz National University) is an associate professor of Asian history. She teaches courses in modern and pre-modern history of Asia, Eurasia, and Russia. The John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation, the UNESCO, the US Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the United Nation organizations supported her research projects. She was a scholar in residence at United Nations University in Tokyo (Japan) and at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, University of Birmingham (UK). She authored several books and chapters, and reports on history, international relations, social development, and gender issues. Dr. Tabyshalieva served as co-editor of the UNESCO volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Towards the Contemporary Period: From the Mid-nineteenth to the End of the Twentieth Century (Paris, 2005) and participated in UNESCO Hirayama Silk Road Program (1994) and Silk Road expedition (the Steppe Route, 1991). She is the author of the UNESCO report on human security in Central Asia (Paris, 2007) and co-editor of Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (United Nations University Press, Tokyo, New-York, 2012) (also available as a PDF) and Escaping Victimhood Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (United Nations University Press, Tokyo, New-York, 2014).