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2007 Recipient
Inaugural Oslo Peace Scholarship
Recipient
The recipient of the 2007 inaugural Oslo Peace Scholarship was
Nino Kemoklidze:
I graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Nationalism Studies (with
Distinction) in 2006 from the University of Edinburgh, where I
studied on an OSI / FCO-Chevening / University of Edinburgh Scholarship.
My dissertation topic was "Nationalism and War: The Case
of Georgia in Early 1990s." Witnessing the fall of the Soviet
Union and living through the turbulent period of Georgia’s
civil wars accentuated my wish to study the causes of violent
ethnic/national conflicts and the means of resolving them. I believe
that doing a degree in International Affairs specializing in Peace
and Conflict Studies will be a lifetime experience and a chance
to deepen my knowledge and understanding of this field. My previous
education in my home country Georgia includes an Academic Degree
(Honours) in Economical Law and a BA (Honours) in the History
of Diplomacy and International Relations. Before joining the Refugee
Programme of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Budapest in September
2006 as part of the OSI Human Rights and Governance Grants Programme
Internship Initiative, I worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Georgia as an Attaché in the Department for the Americas
and did an internship for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Parliament of Georgia.
Nino completed her semester at PRIO in Oslo in 2007 and is now
studying with the GSIA in Canberra.
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