Karina Korostelina (MA, National Kiev University, 1991; Ph.D., Odessa State University, 1994, Dr. of Science (professorship), National Academy of Science Institute of Psychology, 2003) is a Research Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, GMU and a Professor in the Psychological Department at National Taurida University. She is a Fellow of the European Research Center of Migration and Ethnic Relation (ERCOMER). She conducts research on the topics of identity conflicts and multicultural communities’ management, national, regional, religious, and ethnic identities, ethnic relations and conflict resolution, reconciliation and peacebuilding.
She has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, Research Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC and participated at a Nationalism session at the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University. She has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Soros Foundation (Research Support Scheme, Managing Multiethnic Communities Project, Renaissance Foundation), the United States Institute of Peace, US National Academy of Education, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of USDS , INTAS, IREX and Council of Europe. The results of her research have been presented at numerous international conferences in Europe and USA and in publications in Ukrainian and International journals. She is the author of The system of social identities: the analysis of ethnic situation in the Crimea, The social identity and conflict, Diagnostic of interethnic relations in the Crimea, and editor of Interethnic coexistence in the Crimea: the ways of achievement. Currently she is working on a book on identity conflicts and their resolution and co-editing a volume with Daniel Rothbart entitled Identity, Morality and Justice.
She conducts seminars, round tables and trainings for leaders of NGOs, community activists, teachers and government officials, organized by Danish Refugee Council, OUN and other international organizations. She has elaborated identity based training of tolerance.
Graduate Courses
“Identity and conflict” (CONF 695)
“International Applied Theory and Practice” (CONF 690/890)
“Advanced Quantitative Research Methods” (CONF 811)
Undergraduate Courses
“Identity conflicts and their resolution” (CONF 302)
Selected Publications
(2006) Identity, Morality, and Threat. Lexington. (Editor together with Daniel Rothbart).
(2005) Interrelations between national and ethnic identity and the readiness for conflict behavior. In James Peacock (Ed.) Identity matters. Berghahn, In course of publication
(2005) National identity formation and conflict intensions of ethnic minorities. In Mari Fitzduff (Ed). The Psychology of War, Conflict Resolution, and Peace. Praeger Press. In course of publication.
(2005) The impact of national identity on conflict behavior: Comparative analysis of two ethnic minorities in Crimea. In E. A. Tiryakian Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflicts, Peace Processes: Comparative Perspectives. De Sitter Publication: Whitby, ON
(2004) The impact of national identity on conflict behavior: Comparative analysis of two ethnic minorities in Crimea. International Journal ofComparative sociology, 3-4, p. 213-230
(2003) The multiethnic state-building dilemma: National and ethnic minorities’ identities in the Crimea. National Identities, 5, N 2, p. 141-159
(2002) Identity Based Training: Toward Peacebuilding in Multicultural Societies (Report No. NCRTL-RR-143). East Lansing, MI: National Center for Research on Teaching Learning. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 462 636)
(2001) Identity based training . Science and Education, 6. Odessa, p. 59-64
(2000) Peace Building in Multiethnic Crimea. Give &Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia, 3, issue 1, p. 26-27
(2000) The Social – Psychological Roots of the Ethnic Problems in Crimea, Democratizatsiya, 8, N 2, p. 219-231
(2000) Crimean Psychologists Investigate Multi - Ethnic Conflict and Social Change. Psychology International: Journal of American Psychological Association Office of International Affairs . Vol.11, N2 , p1-3
Social Identity and Conflict: Structures, Dynamics, and Implications
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Special Issue: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia: Dimensions and Challenges
Identity, Morality and Threat
The impact of national identity on conflict behavior: Comparative analysis of two ethnic minorities in Crimea
