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The Attitudinal Differences towards Political Participation for Azeris and Azerbaijan and Georgia
05/06/10

Public Lecture: “The Attitudinal Differences towards Political Participation for Azeris and Azerbaijan and Georgia”- Joshua Noonan. ENG.

Time: 18:30

Location: CRRC-Azerbaijan, Khazar University, 122 Bashir Safaroglu Street, Baku, room # 13

Overview: Since the Rose Revolution, Georgia has remade itself into a more transparent, open, and democratically based government whereas Azerbaijan has continued the post-Soviet status quo of “single party plus” rule. The historic, political, and social experiences between Azeris in Azerbaijan and Azeris in Georgia have been quite different from the end of the Soviet Union. This project aimed to compare the attitudes towards political participation for Azerbaijani minorities in Georgia and those attitudes of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan in order to find if and why these attitudes are divergent. The presentation will elaborate the differences and similarities found between the sampled populations in Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Lecturer Bio: Joshua Noonan is a Fulbright Fellow researching attitudinal differences towards political participation for Azeris in Georgia and Azeris in Azerbaijan. He is associated with Qafqaz University in Azerbaijan and the University of Georgia-Tbilsi. Joshua grew up on his family's soybean and corn farm in northeast Nebraska. At the University of Nebraska- Omaha, Joshua participated in an exchange to the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland and to Shizuoka National University, in Japan. Joshua earned his BA in International Studies and in Political Science in December, 2005. After that he interned at the offices of Senator Hagel in Washington, D.C. Then from June 2006 to September 2008 he was a Community Economic Development Adviser for the US Peace Corps in Sheki and Zaqatala, Azerbaijan. After that, Joshua taught at English First in Almaty, Kazakhstan for 9 months. After the completion of his Fulbright grant, Joshua will participate in the Intensive Russian program at Middlebury College as a Kathryn Davis Fellow and then he intends to work abroad at a USAID implementer in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Language: The lecture will be conducted in English.

Registration:   To attend the presentation, please confirm your participation by writing to Aytan Mammadova via aytan.mammadova@crrccenters.org before May 5, 2010. Please indicate in the subject line “The Attitudinal Differences towards Political Participation for Azeris and Azerbaijan and Georgia”

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