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This manual outlines some traditional methods of conflict prevention and resolution, which have been in use in traditional communities in Central Asia. The manual has been tested during the summer labor camp that gathered together multi-ethnic youth from all over Kyrgyzstan. The summer camp was conducted within a framework of the project called “Transmitting peace-keeping …

I hope that this manual will be of interest to all readers who are interested in inter-ethnic friendship and harmony in our society. The manual sees peace and conflict as a product of our everyday life and does not consider peace and conflict as separate opposing units. Instead, peace and conflict are seen to be …

  This publication is a result of the participatory research conducted by the Aigine CRC, together with traditional practitioners and experts in Batken, Jalalabad and Osh provinces for the last three years. The first part of the book contains oral hitory of natural and historical sacred sites, as well as, sacred sites related to Manas …

Blessed Nyldy Ata, 2006 Mazar Worship in Kyrgyzstan: Rituals and Practitioners in Talas, 2007 Sacred Sites of Issyk-Kol: Spiritual Power, Pilgrimage and Art, 2009 Sacred Sites in Jalal-Abad and Traditional Wisdom, 2010 Sacred sites in Osh and Folk Knowledge, 2011 Blessed Land of Batken and Folk Knowledge, 2012 Sacred Sites of the Southern Kyrgyzstan: Nature, …