In October 2012, Nodira Aminova, a researcher and a lawyer from Tajikistan, received a DAAD scholarship to conduct her PhD studies at the IFSH. Her research aims to analyze the “Peace-building dialogue between secular and Islamist forces in Tajikistan”. In this project she will investigate the search for common ground between the secular government and political Islam in Tajikistan. Against the background of theories and respective methodological approaches of political science, the main question asks whether elements of a consensual basis between the secular values and Islamic traditions can be found among the relevant actors in Tajikistan.
As this secular-Islamic dialogue and interaction is of great importance, not only for the stability of Tajikistan, but also at regional and sub-regional levels, the findings of this dissertation will also be of relevance for future confidence-building efforts in Central Asia.
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