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Kemoklidze, Nino

teaching responsibilities at the University of Birmingham; spents several years studying abroad in the US (Arkansas and Maine), Scotland, Norway, and Australia; helds the post of a diplomatic attaché at the Ministry of Foreign affairs in Georgia and worked with refugees at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Budapest before choosing Birmingham as a place for her PhD studies; has always been interested in the issues concerning nationalism and ethnic violence and has always wanted to study the causes behind ethnic civil wars that erupted in Georgia after the break up of the Soviet Union. She first explored these issues in two masters dissertations and is now able to look at them in more depth in her PhD thesis. During the 2010/11 academic year she was a visiting researcher at the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs in Oslo thanks to generous funding from the Norwegian Research Council