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Ali Askerov

Ali Askerov

Ph.D. Associate Professor, Co-Chair

Peace and Conflict Studies

Email Address: abaskaro@uncg.edu

Bio & Education

Dr. Ali Askerov is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

He has written on ethnic conflict, terrorism, mediation, peace education, conflict transformation, refugee issues, and structural violence, among others. He is an author or co-author of several books that include Contemporary Relations Between Turkey and Russia: From Crisis to Cooperation (2018), Transformative Change: An Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (2015), Historical Dictionary of Chechen Conflict (2015), and Chechens From Past to Future: Healing the Wounds (2012).

Askerov is a research fellow of the Center for New North Carolinians. He has been interviewed for various televisions on international conflicts, terrorism, and national security issues.

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Courses Taught

  • PCS 608: Special Topics: Human Security, Migration, and Refugees
  • PCS 610: Transitional Justice
  • PCS 609: Community Engaged Research
  • PCS 607: Conflict Analysis: Theories of Change
  • PCS 690: Integrated Colloquium
  • PCS 631: Humanitarian Crisis Management
  • PCS 607: Conflict Analysis: Theory of Change
  • PCS 631: Humanitarian Crisis Management
  • PCS 605: Skills/Techniques of Conflict Transformation
  • PCS 677: International Human Rights Advocacy
  • PCS 711: Conflict Transformation in Crisis Environment
  • CPS 556 Sports, Conflict, Peace
  • CPS 602: Professional Seminar I

Research

Research interests includes:

  • Ethnic conflicts
  • Peace education
  • Structural violence
  • Human rights
  • International morality
  • History of political ideas
  • Russian studies
  • Identity and conflict
  • Refugee and migration
  • Human security

Books

  • Askerov, A., Tchnatouridze, L. & Brooks, S. (Eds.). (In Press). Post-Soviet Conflicts. Lexington Books
  • Topsakal, I., Askerov, A. & Nafikov, I. (Eds). (In Press). Russo-Turkish Relations: From Past to Future. Istanbul University Press.
  • Askerov, A. (Eds.). (2018). Contemporary relations between Turkey and Russia: From crisis to cooperation, Lanham: Lexington Books;
  • Reimer, L., Schmitz, C., Janke, E., Askerov, A., Strahl, B. & T. Matyok (2015). Transformative change: An introduction to peace and conflict studies, Lanham: Lexington Books;
  • Askerov, A. (2015). Historical dictionary of Chechen conflicts. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Askerov, A. (2011). Chechens from past to future: Healing the wounds. Lambert Academic Publishing, GmbH & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany.