Kamen Velichkov
Professor
Contacts:
e-mail: kvelichkov@hotmail.com mob: +7 777 3060465 office: +7 7172 769512
Scientific degree, title, scientific school:
Doctor in organization and management beyond the scope of the producing economy, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia
Master in International relations, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Scientific interests:
International Relations, IR Theory, Conflict resolution, European Integration, Central Asia, Middle East
Research Grants:
2006 – Singapore Cooperation Programme Training Awards: Dispute Resolution Systems: Polices, Structures and Strategies, MFA, Singapore Mediation Center
2006 – UNITAR and the International Peace Academy, Fellowship Programme in Peace-making and Preventive Diplomacy, Holmenkollen, Norway
2003 – 2004 – Rakovski Defense and Staff College (National Military Academy), Sofia; Specialization in Management and Strategic Leadership of Defense and Armed Forces and National Security Issues 1986 – Institute of Oriental Studies, USSR Academy of Science, Moscow, Post-graduate specialization on Contemporary Islam
International Research Projects:
2011-2012 – Balkan Histories: Shared, Connected, Entangled, a European Research Council-funded project, Research assistant
2007-2008 – Education for Tolerance in Secondary Schools in Morocco, Spain, Bulgaria and Romania, Senior Teacher and resource person, EU- funded project implemented by four universities
2006-2007 – South East Europe – Security Dilemmas, Consortium of UK, Spanish and Bulgarian Universities, Resource person
Professional experience:
2016 - Senior Project Manager and Diplomatic Advisor, International Science and Technology Center, Astana
2012 – 2016 – Head, Politics, Press and Information Section, EU Delegation to Kazakhstan
2008 - 2010 – Ambassador of Bulgaria to Thailand, Permanent Observer to the UN ESCAP
2002 – 2008 – Head, Political Issues Department, UN and Global Issues Directorate, MFA
2004 – Ambassador at Large, Special Envoy of the OSCE Departmentman-in- Office for Central Asia
2002 – Director for International cooperation, Ministry of Defense, Sofia 1996–2001 – Ambassador of Bulgaria to the Netherlands
1992 – 1996 – Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria 1990 – 1992 – Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Bulgaria to Israel, Tel Aviv Academic career:
Visiting lecturer, Nazarbayev University’s School of Social sciences and Humanities, (2013)
Senior Teacher, New Bulgarian University, (2006); Sofia University “St.
Kliment Ohridski”, (2001-2012);
Diplomatic Institute, MFA; (2006 –2012);
Assistant Professor, Tutor, College of Europe - Bruges, Belgium, (1998- 2001)
Delivered courses:
Institutional Basis of European Integration (in Russian and English, lectures) (BA)
Technique of the Diplomatic Negotiations (in Russian and English, lectures) (BA)
Publications (selected):
1. (in English) The UNSC membership of Kazakhstan: Constructivist and Pragmatic Foreign Policy in Action, Sardar, 3 (32) 2016, 36-41 Center for Military Strategic Research, Astana
2. (in Bulgarian) Conflict prevention: concepts, policies and main actors in: Diplomacy Journal, The Diplomatic Institute, Sofia, 2009;
3. (in English) The Question of Palestine at the United Nations & the 2006 Resolution in: Continuity and Change in the Realms of Islam, studies in Honor of Prof. Urban Vermeulen, Orientalica Lovaniensia Analecta, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA, 2008
4. (in Bulgarian) The UN Initiative Alliance of Civilizations in:
“International Relations”, Sofia, 2008
5. (in Bulgarian) “Islam, Islamic Radicalism and “Cultural Sensitivity”
in: Cultural Sensitivity and Security: the New Standards in Research and Education, eds.: Pantev Plamen, K. Velichkov, V Rachev, V Atanasov, Publishing House of Sofia University 2008, p.p.17-35
6. (in Bulgarian) Bulgaria’s Relations with the Arab States, 2001-2005 in: Bulgaria: The Predictable Partner – Bulgarian Foreign Policy, 2001 - 2005, ed.: Tomova J. Dokadinova R., Bulgarian Bestseller Company – National Museum of the Bulgarian Book and Polygraph, Sofia, 2005, p.
230-262
7. (in Bulgarian and in English) The European Union in the Middle East Peace process, Security Focus and Security Sector Watch, Vol. 3, No. 12, January 2005
8. (in Bulgarian) Barcelona: Ten Years Later, Public Administration, Institute for Public Administration and European Integration, Vol 4, 2005, p. 22-27
9. (in English) What Role is Possible for the EU in the Middle East Peace Process, in: More than a Dwarf? Fornet essays on Europe’s
Awards:
2015 – Medal of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan
2001 – Order van Oranje – Nassau, Ridder Grootkruis, The Netherlands
1995 – Commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Honneur, Greece
1995 – Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite, France
1994 – Bem Mercer, Grande Official da Ordem do Merito Civil, Portugal
1993 – Order Al Merito Civil, Spain
foreign policy, security and defense, ed.: Nikolov K., Bulgarian European Community Studies Association, Sofia, 2004, p.p.199-221 10. (in Bulgarian) The Dutch EU Presidency, in Bulletin Europe, Bulgarian European Community Studies Association, issue 2, 2004 11. (in English) Bulgaria’s EU Accession Negotiations: Achievements and Challenges in Papeles del Este: Transiciones Poscomunistas, 8 (2004), Universidad Complutense Madrid, /www.ucm.es/BUCM/cee/
papeles/08/04.doc
12. (in English) Arab Perceptions of the Balkans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in: “Mysticism, Magic, Popular Culture and Art”, Proceedings of the Twentieth Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants UEAI (Budapest, September 10-17, 2000), ed.:
Fodor Al., Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, The Arabist (Arab Tansék), Budapest, vol. 24, (2001) 13. (in Bulgarian) Bulgarian - Arab Relations in the Aftermath of World War I in: “Arabic and Islamic Studies”, ed.: Pashova Ts., Teophanov, Ts., Pavlovich P., Publishing House of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, (2001), p.p.100-110, ISBN 954-07-1555-5
14. (in English) Remarks by the Ambassador of Bulgaria in International Alternative Dispute Resolution: Past, Present and Future, The Permanent Court of Arbitration Centennial Papers, ed.: The International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Kluwer Law International, The Hague/ London/ Boston, 2000, p.p. 25-30, ISBN 90-411-1476-9
15. (in English) The Dawn of Bulgarian - Arab Official Relations:
Parallel Quest for Modernity in: ”Law, Christianity and Modernism in Islamic Society” Proceedings of the XVIII Congress of the UEAI (Leuven-Gent, September 3-9, 1996), ed.: Vermeulen U.,Van Reeth J., Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Uitgeverej Peeters, Leuven, 1998, p.p. 227 - 234
