Gulshan M. Pashayeva
53/61 Fizuli street, Baku, Azerbaijan 370014
Phone: (994-12) 94-08-36(home); Mobile: (994-50) 33-55-624
(GPashayeva@iatp.baku.az)

1. Professional Experience
- National Program Coordinator, the UNIFEM project "Women for Conflict Prevention and Peace Building in the Southern Caucasus", Baku, Azerbaijan, August 2001 to present
- Director, Conflict Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan - November 1996-2001
- Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies, Western University, 1999 - 2001 (part time)
- Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies / Linguistics, Azerbaijan University, Baku, Azerbaijan - 1996-1998
- Associate Professor, Linguistics, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan - 1995-1997
- Lecturer, Linguistics, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan - 1988-1995
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan - 1983-1985

Received appointment to the position of Associate Professor in October 1996, by decision of the High Attestation Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic

2. Scholarly and Professional Activities
- June 2003 - Participant of Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR 2003) Training Programme, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- May 2003 - Participant of the third Lekani meeting on regional security issues organized and supported by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia
- April 2003 - Participant of the Reunion meeting of CELA in Istanbul organized by East West Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
- February 2003 - Participant of the third meeting of the League of the Women of the Caucasus organized by International Alert, Moscow, Russia
- February 2003 - Lecturer for the foundation course within International Civilian Peace-keeping and Peace-building Training Program organized Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, Austria
- December 2002 - Panel Speaker at the second Lekani meeting on regional security issues organized by Georgian office of Helsinki Citizen Assembly and supported by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Borjomi, Georgia
- December 2002 - Panel Speaker at the International Expert Meeting on "Armed Conflict and Women" organized by the Asian Women's Fund and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
- August 2002 - Participant of the Zurich Meeting of "Crisis Management in Southern Caucasus Study Group" organized by Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, Zurich, Switzerland
- July-August 2002 - Participant of the conference "Central Eurasia Leadership Alliance" (CELA) organized by East West Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
- May 2002 - One of the facilitators of International Seminar in Gudauri on peacebuilding organized by Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
- April 2002 - Participant of the Lekani meeting on regional security issues organized by Georgian office of Helsinki Citizen Assembly, Borjomi, Georgia
- March 2002 - Participant of the meeting at the Headquarter of NATO, Brussels, Belgium
- September 2001 - Participant in the International Seminar "Participation of Women in the Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts" organized Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
- May 2001 - Participant in the International Workshop "Stability and Peace in the Caucasus: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh" organized by the Evangelischen Akademie Loccum, Germany
-Febrary 2001 - Participant in the brainstorming meeting "The Search for Stability in the Caucasus" organized by  Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV). The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
-November 2000 - Lecturer in the workshop on "Leadership in Conflict Prevention and Management", Baku, Azerbaijan
-October 2000 - Participant in the Fifth Annual General Assembly of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, Baku, Azerbaijan
- September 2000 - Participant in the workshop "Negotiating self-determination" on the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh organized by the Center for Human Rights & Conflict Resolution, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- September 2000 - Panel Speaker in the Alumni conference "Regional Dynamis of the Black and Caspian sea basins" sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State and the Starr Foundation and hosted by International Research & Exchanges Board, Odessa, Ukraine
- August 2000 - Lecturer in the International Seminar on "The Role of Voluntary Youth work in Conflict Resolution" organized by Association of Young Azerbaijanis Friends of Europe (AYAFE), Baku, Azerbaijan
- May 2000 - Panel Speaker in USAID and AED funded Regional Networking and Cooperation Workshop on Southern Caucasus Women Leadership 2000, Armenia
- February 2000 - Panel Speaker in USAID and AED founded Regional Work of Women NGO and Community Leaders on Conflict Resolution and Refugees Displaced People, Georgia
- February 2000 - Panel Speaker in the Embassy of the United Kingdom funded and Relief International organized conference "Peace and Tolerance Education in Azerbaijan: Participatory strategies for the 21st century", Baku, Azerbaijan
- December 1999 - Delegate of launch of the global network "Women Waging Peace". A global initiative of the women and public Policy Program of Harward's Kennedy School of Government and Hunt Alternatives. Cambridge, MA, USA
- November 1999 - Participant in the conference 'Between the Bloc and the Hard Place': Moving Toward Europe in Post-Communist States' at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London), London, UK. Sponsored by the British Embassy to the Republic of Azerbaijan
- September 1999 - Participant in follow-up workshop of the "Partner in Conflict" project, Istanbul, Turkey
- July 1999 - Participant in the workshop on "Leadership in Conflict Prevention and Management", Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
- June 1999 - Participant in the First International Conference of mediators, sponsored by Open Society Institute-Azerbaijan, St-Petersbourg, Russia
- March 1999 - Participant in the roundtable on "Multiethnic Communities in the USA", University of New Mexico, Taos, USA
- Februry 1999 - Guest lecturer at the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
- November 1998 - Panel speaker at the National Peace Foundation presentation on "Peacebuilding in the South Caucasus", Washington DC, USA
- July 1998 - Participant in the workshop on "Leadership in Conflict Prevention and Management", Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
- November to December 1997 - Participant in British Council-funded conference on Gender Issues, Oxford University, Great Britain
- October, 1997 - Participant in the Transcaucasus Women's Dialogue, Athens, Greece
- August 1997 - Participant in "Partners in Conflict" follow-up workshop, Aland Islands, Finland
- June to July 1997 - Participant in the workshop on "Leadership in Conflict Prevention and Management", Tbilisi,Republic of Georgia
- May 1997 - Fellow at Salzburg Seminar (session #346), sponsored by USIA: "Race and Ethnicity: Models for Diversity", Salzburg, Austria
- May 1996 - Participant in follow-up workshop of the "Partner in Conflict" project, Jerusalem, Israel

3. Research positions
- Fulbright Scholar, Negotiation and conflict resolution, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts, USA - October 1998 to April 1999
- Research Scholar, The "Partners in Conflicts: Building Bridges to Peace in Transcaucasia" project, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland at College Park, USA, August to December 1995

4. Education
- Participant of Advanced International Program on Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, April 20 - May 31, 2001
- International Civilian Peace-keeping and Peace-building Training Program (IPT) / Foundation Course and Specialization Course on Mediation and Facilitation at Peace Center Burg Schlaining /Austria, June 2000
- Institute of Russian Language and Literature, Baku, Azerbaijan: Masters's Degree in Linguistics , 1990
- Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan: Advanced Graduate Study in Comparative Linguistics (Russian and Azerbaijani), 1985-1988
- Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR: Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics, 1983

Languages: Azerbaijani, Russian, English, some German and French.

Publications

Monograph:

• Methods of the expression of gender in languages belonging to the different systems (on the basis of Russian and Azerbaijani languages). Baku, 1993.

Articles:

1. Concerning the problem of delimitation of the compound words and word combinations. Baku, 1985.
2. Compound words from the viewpoint of modern lexicography. In modern problems of linguistics and literature studies. Baku, 1985.
3. The role of comparative-typological research in modern linguistics. Baku, 1985.
4. Concerning the problem of the modifications of sounds in the speech process. Baku, 1986.
5. Concerning typology of grammatical category of gender. Baku, 1987.
6. Heteronym as the method of expression the category of gender. Baku, 1987.
7. Concerning the expression the category of gender. Baku, 1987.
8. The role of the comparative researches in educational purposes (by the example of extralinguistical category of sex and grammatical category of gender). Baku, 1987.
9. Concerning the linguistically expression of gender. Baku, 1987.
10. The descriptive method of the expression of gender. Baku, 1987.
11. Syntactic peculiarities of the expression of gender in the languages belonging to the different systems. Baku, 1988.
12. Concerning the methods of the expression of gender in the languages belonging to the different systems (affixation). Baku, 1989.
13. The methods of the expression of gender in the languages belonging to the different systems //Author's abstract of the thesis for the philological sciences Candidate degree. Baku, 1989.
14. About some questions of bilinguals // "Linguistic contacts and literature connections". Baku, 1990.
15. Concerning the contents of the linguistic aspects of bilinguals. Baku, 1991.
16. Studying Lexis in the comparative aspect. Baku, 1993.
17. Automatic systems of the spell check, Baku, 1993.
18. Semantically analysis of the textual information. Baku, 1994.
19. Automatic vocabularies and their role in the modern lexicography. Baku, 1995.
20. Concerning the construction of the semantically vocabulary of the compound nouns of Azerbaijani language. Baku, 1995.
21. Language planning situation in Azerbaijan. Baku, 1997.
22. Language policy issue in independent Azerbaijan // Ethnopolitical conflicts in the Transcaucasus: their roots and solutions. University of Maryland, USA, 1997.
23. Language planning in Azerbaijan // New language planning Newsletter, v.12, India, 1997
24. Karabakh conflict: is there a way out of stalemate? // Central Asia & Caucasus 5(6), Sweden, 1999 (in Russian)
25. The equivalence of the compromises as the pledge of the "positive peace" // newspaper "Zerkalo" #138, November, 12, 1999, Baku
26. Can NGOs Build Bridges? //"Give&Take", Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia, Washington, D.C., spring 2000, vol.3/ issue 1   
27. The Karabakh conflict: is there a way out? // Central Asia and Caucasus. Sweden, 2, 2000 (in English)
28. Knotty issue with three variables. // Private view. The Quarterly International Review of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's association. Turkey, volume 9, 2000 (in English)
29. "The ways out of armed conflicts: view through the warfare and peace perspectives" In: Newspaper "Azerbaijan", Baku, # 61, March 17, 2001 (In Azerbaijani)
30. Myths And Realities Of The South Caucasian System Of Regional Security (English) // Central Asia & Caucasus 1(7), Sweden, 2001 (Russian version)

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