ENU teaches negotiation process technologies

The Eurasian National University launched an international summer school “Modern Technologies of the Negotiation Process in the Interethnic Sphere: the Potential of Application in Practice”. Well-known scientists and professors will conduct training for 40 students from 11 regions of Kazakhstan.

During a 72-hour academic training, students will gain skills and competencies in preparing and conducting negotiations and the role of mediation in their productive organization, as well as receive certificates.

Among the listeners are employees of state and quasi-state structures, heads and teachers of APK departments, faculty of ENU and other universities, professional mediators, representatives of APK public institutions, doctoral students and undergraduates.

The school’s expert resource will consist of well-known ENU foreign scientists and professors, APK experts and practitioners in the field of mediation and ethnomediation, conflictologists, mediation trainers, ethnopsychologists, negotiators.

“The format of the summer school involves not only obtaining academic knowledge, but also practical cases. Such an important issue as the technology of negotiation processes in the interethnic sphere and the application of this format presupposes a fairly innovative approach,” Zhanna Kurmangalieva, ENU Vice-Rector for Science, Commercialization and Internationalization said.

APK Deputy Chairman, Head of the APK Secretariat of the Republic of Kazakhstan Marat Azilkhanov stressed that the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan and the Committee for the Development of Interethnic Relations need to integrate science and practice.

“The international summer school is an excellent project. I should note that the teaching staff is quite serious. The program is informative. It would be good if the participants of this seminar would join the core of the club of negotiators,” the speaker said.

Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament Alisher Satvaldiyev noted the need for a scientific component in the prevention of interethnic conflicts.

Natalia Kalashnikova, Head of the APK Department of the L.N. Gumilyov ENU, said that the summer school project is being implemented on the terms of partnership, commercialization and scientific collaboration between scientific, educational organizations and public structures of the APK.    

“40 students from 11 regions of Kazakhstan are expected to participate in the international summer school. Nine coaches and instructors will work offline for six days at the ENU site,” N. Kalashnikova said.  

A cultural program is also planned within the school.