Murad Muradov & Ilkin Guliyev

Murad Muradov obtained his Bachelor degree in International Relations from the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2011), an MA in Diplomacy and International Affairs from the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (2013) and an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics (2015). He participated in a number of training programs, summer schools and fellowships both in Azerbaijan and abroad, including the John Smith Trust Fellowship for Wider Europe (2017). His areas of expertise cover security and geopolitics of South Caucasus and post-Soviet countries and international political economy. Ilkin Guliyev is doing a Master Degree History Faculty of the Baku State University. Ilkin’s research areas mainly cover the Middle East, South Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. He is interested in conflict resolution, conflict transformation and peacebuilding and participated in different trainings, seminars, and study programmes related to the aforementioned topics.