cover image: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Vol 19, No 1, 2020, 58-81.

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Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Vol 19, No 1, 2020, 58-81.

12 Jun 2020

It highlights the introduction of international values of multiculturalism into the Concept and problematizes the relationship between the norms of multiculturalism and the politics of nationalism in Kyrgyzstan. [...] And even though the Action Plan called for linkages between the Agency and law enforcement to be strengthened, the head of the Ak-Buura District Police Office in Osh said that their office had no relationship with the Agency.5 In fact, he was not aware of the existence of either the Agency or the Concept.6 The second issue worth mentioning is a poor understanding of the Concept and its core princi. [...] Even at the highest level within the Agency, according to the deputy head of the Department, ‘most of the personnel do not know what the actual rationale behind the implementation of the Concept is’.7 67 JEMIE, Vol 19, No 1, 2020 He also claims that akims (local governors) in the south of the country, the Agency’s Osh oblast department and the Mayor’s Office in Osh had a very vague understanding o. [...] With regard to the role of the Kyrgyz language and civic unity, the representative from the Agency said the process had started successfully, with most of the representatives from national minority groups expressing a desire to learn the Kyrgyz language.13 The Agency organized meetings with schools in Nookat, which were important in dispelling the negative rhetoric in the press about ‘alleged forc. [...] Building the Kyrgyz Jarany identity The head of the Agency office in Osh stated that the development of the Kyrgyz Jarany identity was very important in the aftermath the conflict.
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