The skills of ethnomediation are taught to district police officers, prosecutors and representatives of akimats

On September 16-17, 2021 the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Studies of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan holds a training seminar «Fundamentals of Ethnopolitical Literacy and Ethnomediation» in Taraz.

The participants of the training seminars were representatives of local police authorities, prosecutor's offices and akimats of multi-ethnic districts of Almaty, Zhambyl and Turkestan regions.

Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Development of Interethnic Relations of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aibek Zhaksybayev, Director of the Institute Talgat Kaliyev, as well as leading experts of the Institute made presentations. 

The program of the event includes a series of lectures with an analysis of specific cases and a demonstration of cause-and-effect relationships.

The goal is to increase ethnopolitical literacy, explain the features of the interethnic relations sphere and the consequences of erroneous interpretation of events.

The work of the seminar is carried out on the following topics: «Basic foundations of conflictology and ethnomediation», «Information and media literacy. Interethnic relations in the information space», «Socio-psychological features of relations between ethnic groups of Kazakhstan. The information component of the conflict. The language of hostility. Non-normative ethnonyms in the declarative phase of the conflict», «Skills of public rhetoric».

To consolidate the acquired knowledge and skills, the experts of the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Studies will conduct practical training sessions at the end of the seminar.