Everyday Lives between Conflict and Peace: Empirical Evidences from the former Soviet Area, 5 op

Lectures (aud. Linna 5026, Tampere University):

1. Introduction. Theory of everyday peace, methodology for analyzing everydayness, main characteristics of conflict-affected everyday life (Vadim Romashov, TAPRI) March, 3

2. Introduction. Dialogic approach to mediation: everyday peace from a third-party perspective (Marko Lehti, TAPRI) March, 5

3. Introduction. Geopolitics, borders and the post-Soviet conflicts (Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, fm. TAPRI) March, 10

4. Social factors of inter-ethnic tensions in contemporary Russia (Mikhail Chernysh, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow) March, 17

5. Manifestations of agonistic peace in Armenian-Azerbaijani rural communities in Georgia (Vadim Romashov, TAPRI) March, 24

6. War and organized crime in Ukraine: international third party’s perspective (Tanja Tamminen, Police University College & Research Initiative on Organized Crime, Tampere) March, 31

7. Everyday engagement across the Dniester River: leaving the war behind (Vladlena Lisenco, Department of Law, Pridnestrovian University, Tiraspol) April, 7

8. The Narva case: a precarious peace in the borderland of Estonians and Russians (David Smith, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow) April, 21

9. The Udis of Azerbaijan: the life of a minority in their historic homeland (Alexander Kavtaradze, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi) April, 28

10. Everyday life in multi-ethnic urban parts of Tbilisi (Keti Gurchiani, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi) May, 5

Intensive day: 10-16, 14 May (week 20)

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research and the students from Aleksanteri Instutute's Russian and East European Master's School

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in Global and Transnational Sociology, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)

3. other degree students of (TAU)

4. exchange students