Leila Agayevna Aliyeva

Regional Exchange Scholar

Professional Affiliation

President, Center for National and International Studies

Wilson Center Project

Ethnic Identity in the Post Soviet Era

Project Summary

Study of the ethnic, cultural and religious identities - their hierarchy, interdependence, level of multiplicity, in ethnic groups which will serve as one of the indicators of the level of ethnic sensitivity; investigation of the content of the historical memory, correlation between the days of glory and chosen traumas, existence of the enemy image; investigation of the time prospective of ethnic groups: study of the dominating type of personality in each of the ethnic groups with future orientation past orientation or present one; study of the value systems of the ethnic groups