Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance

Anja Mihr is DAAD Associate Professor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is Professor of Human Rights, Governance, Public Policy, and Transitional Justice and developed training courses on ‘Transitology’. Anja is also Founder and Program Director of the Center on Governance through Human Rights at the Berlin Governance Platform in Berlin, Germany. She has held professorships at the Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy, Erfurt University, Germany, and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, Netherlands. 

Chiara Pierobon is DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, where she teaches German and European Studies. She has held professorships and academic appointments at the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), Bielefeld and Magdeburg University (Germany), German Kazakh-University (Kazakhstan), Kyrgyz-National University (Kyrgyzstan), Malaya University (Malaysia), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and University of California/Berkeley (USA). In addition, Dr. Pierobon has been active as Consultant and Trainer in organizations, NGOs, and think tanks such as DVV International, Europe-Asia Monitoring (EUCAM), the European Neighborhood Council (ENC), and the UNESCO Cluster Office for Central Asia.