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"Culture of Tolerance: The Problem of Formation"

Roundtable transcript

On 6 November the Bishkek Press Club held a Roundtable on "Culture of Tolerance: the Problem of Formation" within the framework of the project "Increasing Tolerance Among Young People in Conflict Prevention" with the support of the OSCE Center in Bishkek. Representatives of state bodies, NGOs and international organizations, as well as representatives of religious organizations, participated in the Roundtable.

List of participants:

Moderator - Muratbek Imanaliev, president of the Institute for Public Policy

Ishenbai Abdurazakov, social activist of KR
Erlan Abdyldaev, director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Tolkun Bekbulatova, director of the Department for Child Protection
Andrey Butsman, senior program coordinator of the OSCE
Vera Vygovskaya, executive director of the public association "Egalité"
Tatiana Vygovskaya, general director of the public association "Egalité"
Ivan Kamenko, program director of the public association "Egalité"
Lira Karagulova, head of the public association "Mejkulturnoe obrazovanie" ("Intercultural Education")
Yusur Loma, advisor to the Mufti of KR
Kadyr Malikov, expert of the Independent analytical research center of religion, law and politics
Shamshybek Mamyrov, head of the reform department of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of KR
Sergei Masaulov, director of the Institute of Strategic Analysis and Evaluation under the President of KR
Anar Musabaeva, independent expert on socio-economic issues
Svetlana Pak, executive secretary of the Assembly of the People of Kyrgyzstan
Sovetbek Sarbanov, head of the department of science, innovation and technical information.

Participants of the project "Increasing Tolerance Among Young People in Conflict Prevention" also attended.

The full text of the transcript is available here

The Institute for Public Policy is a Bishkek-based independent organization that was founded in April 2005. It aims at promoting formation of a practice of public policy and development of mechanisms of constructive interaction between state institutions, civil society, mass media and businesses. The Institute supports partner relations with many participants of public and political processes and aims at involving the public in the process of decision making.

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