Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ongoing
PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Research Group: "How Terrorists Learn", Halle, Germany

2014–2015
MAS in International and European Security, High Honors, University of Geneva and Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland

2013–2014
MA in Politics and Security, Graduated magna cum laude, OSCE Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

2008–2013
BA in International Relations, Graduated summa cum laude, International University of Central Asia (IUCA), Tokmok, Kyrgyz Republic

2012
Political Science Studies (exchange program), NLA University College in Bergen, Norway

Publications and Presentations

2017
Orozobekova, Almakan. 2017. Recruitment of foreign fighters to violent islamist groups: the cases of the Kyrgyz Republic and the United Kingdom. Zentralasien-Seminar, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin. https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/zentralasien/bild/veranstaltungen/wise16_17/2017_02_06_orozobekova.pdf. Accessed February 08, 2017.

2016
Orozobekova, Almakan. 2016. The mobilization and recruitment of foreign fighters: the case of Islamic State, 2012-2014. Connections: The Quarterly Journal 15(3): 83-100. DOI: 10.11610/Connections.15.3.07.

Orozobekova, Almakan. 2016. Public perception of and discourses on 'foreign fighters': the case of the Kyrgyz Republic. IFSH International conference on Prospects for Peace Research in Central Asia Between Discourses of Danger, Normative Divides and Global Challenges. Hamburg.

Orozobekova, Almakan. 2016. Mobilization and recruitment of foreign 'terrorist' fighters (FTF): institutional and individual approaches. EU Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian's Conference on Regional Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism in Central Asia - Challenges and Responses at Community Level. Bishkek.

2015
Orozobekova, Almakan and Alexander Wolters. 2015. Regime security versus human security: the case of an uprising in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asia Policy Brief No. 29, OSCE Academy. Bishkek. http://www.osce-academy.net/upload/file/Policy_Brief_29.pdf. Accessed January 30, 2017.

Orozobekova, Almakan. 2015. Mobilization and recruitment of foreign fighters: the case of the Islamic State. Round Table on ISIS, OSCE Academy. Bishkek.

Languages

English
Russian
Kyrgyz