Aziz Berdiqulov
Aziz is a Researcher at the ECMI. His main research interests include nation-building, political mobilisation, official recognition, and socio-economic participation, particularly in post-Soviet countries. Aziz helped establish links between the ECMI and several organisations and research institutes, including the American University of Central Asia and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. He is one of the coordinators of the ECMI Summer School and was involved with the ECMI Spring School. He is also the Assistant Editor of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE).
Prior to joining the ECMI, Aziz was working at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on initiatives covering good governance, anti-corruption, youth participation, and elections. He gained experience on issues related to the rule of law, self-governance, and access to justice from working at a local NGO in Tajikistan.
Aziz is a PhD candidate at the Europa Universität Flensburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vello Pettai and Prof. Juldyz Smagulova. In his doctoral project, he looks at the impact of the introduction of the Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan on national minorities.
Berdiqulov, A. Advancing Social and Economic Rights of European Minorities from the Perspective of International Law – International Developments in 2022. (2024). In European Yearbook of Minority Issues Vol. 22 (2023) (pp. 213-237). Brill | Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116117_02101010
Berdiqulov, A. (2024, October 31). Existential Questions: How Russian Narratives Question Central Asian Sovereignty. The Diplomat. Available from: https://thediplomat.com/2024/10/existential-questions-how-russian-narratives-question-central-asian-sovereignty/
Berdiqulov, A. (2024, September 21). The Latinization of Kazakhstan: Language, Modernization and Geopolitics. The Diplomat. Available from: https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/the-latinization-of-kazakhstan-language-modernization-and-geopolitics/
Berdiqulov, A. (2024). The Situation of Minorities in Tajikistan. Minority Rights Group. Available from: https://minorityrights.org/resources/tajikistan-report/
Berdiqulov, A. (2023). Comparison of the Experience of Afghan Refugees and Russian Relocants in Tajikistan and Ways of Their Integration. [published in Russian as “Сравнение опыта афганских беженцев и российских релокантов в Таджикистане и пути их интеграции.”] Policy Brief of the Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR.asia). Available from: https://cabar.asia/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PolBrief_Afgantsy-i-relokanty.pdf
Berdiqulov, A. (2022). Legal Mechanisms to Ensure the Participation of National Minorities in Tajikistan and Their Implementation: Comparison of the Framework Convention and Tajik Legislation. [published in Russian as “Правовые механизмы по обеспечению участия национальных меньшинств в Таджикистане и их имплементация: Сравнение Рамочной Конвенции и законодательства РТ.”] Policy Brief of the Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (CABAR.asia). Available from: https://cabar.asia/ru/pravovye-mehanizmy-po-obespecheniyu-uchastiya-natsionalnyh-menshinstv-v-tadzhikistane-i-ih-implementatsiya-sravnenie-ramochnoj-konventsii-i-zakonodatelstva-rt
Berdiqulov, A., Buriev, M., and Marinin, S. (2021). Civil Society and the COVID-19 Governance Crisis in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Policy Paper by the Institut für Europäische Politik. Available here.
Berdiqulov, A. (2020). Mechanisms of National Minority Recognition in Post-Soviet States. Cases of Kazakhstan, Lithuania, and Russia. In Pérez de la Fuente, O., Falcão, M., and J. Martínez, D. (eds.). Struggles for Recognition. Cultural pluralism and right of minorities, Colección Pluralismo y minorías. Dykinson: Madrid, pp. 87-105. Available here.
Bober, S. & Berdiqulov, A. (2020). Recognition, non-recognition, and misrecognition of minority communities. What lessons can be drawn from a comparison between European and Central Asian approaches? Research Paper No. 124. European Centre for Minority Issues.
Book Review: Uzbekistan’s New Face, by S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell (eds). Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Vol 19, No. 1 (2020).
Berdiqulov, A. (2018). Minority Communities in Contemporary Tajikistan. An Overview. ECMI Working Paper 108. European Centre for Minority Issues.
Prina, F., and Berdiqulov, A. (2018). Majorities and Minorities in Post-Soviet Space. ECMI Working Paper 105. European Centre for Minority Issues.
Berdiqulov, A. (2015). Ethnic Minorities’ Political Mobilization: Cases of Uzbeks and Pamiris. From the Tajik civil War to the 2012/2014 Khorog events. Central Asia Security Policy Briefs no. 24. Availalbe here
