A round table will be held at the South Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry on August 29th, 2016, entitled “Safety of the Central Asian Region: Issues and Ways to Solve Them”.
Organizers include the Eurasian Partnership fund for socioeconomic development, South Ural State University, M. Osimi Tajik Technical University, South Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Karaganda Region Chamber of Entrepreneurs.
The round table will be held as an online dialog in which experts from Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhsthan, and representatives of the national expatriate communities of countries of the central Asian region in the South Ural region and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug will participate.
Expert in issues of safety in the central Asian region, professor of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, doctor of political science, Tatiana Drozina (Bulgaria), will be participating.
The main goals of these event are: the systemic analysis of the safety situation in the central Asian region and to identify the main reasons and sociopolitical repercussions of the growth of radical sentiments with a main focus on the youth; to study the effect of the Afghan factor on safety in the central Asian region; study of the integration processes for stabilizing the economic, political, and social situation of countries of the central Asian region; discussion and development of the prospects for the development of political, social, and humanitarian relations between Russia and countries of central Asia; the search for and development of channels and methods to promote the idea of a unified Eurasian historical and cultural heritage among the Russian public and the public of Eurasian Commonwealth countries; and analysis of the reasons for proliferation of the idea of radicalism in the region and their attractiveness among youth.
Specialists plan on examining the following issues at the round table:
- the national safety of central Asian states in modern geopolitical conditions;
- the middle east factor in the policies of central Asian states;
- the threat of terrorism and religious extremism in the central Asian region;
- social networks as a new medium for communication of the youth of the central Asian region;
- recruitment of militants from central Asian countries: paths to solving this issue;
- issues of economic security in countries of the central Asian region;
- central asia as a cultural and historical region.