December, 7-10, 2007
Lucknow, India

Name:

Dr (Mrs) Prof. Mariam Edilova

Mariam Edilova

Designation

Professor, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences,

Organization/Institution

Professor, International Ataturk-Alatoo University

Country

Kyrgyzstan

   

Short Biography

Dr (Mrs) Prof. Mariam Edilova, is Deen of the economic and Administrative Science in the International Ataturk-Alatoo University. She has taken part in research work on poverty, gender, gender policy, philosophy of gender, national identification, national building, national mentality, national policy, migration, civil society and other issues. She has participated in about thirty seminars, conferences, congresses held in different countries such as Korea, Turkey, Iran, Germany, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia etc. She has to her credit 50 articles, 4 scientific books and 2 methodical books.

Presentation

Mass Consciousness Resolves Conflicts, Brings Peace


It is important for all, young and old, to unite in consciousness to help our planet achieve peace. The Internet provides instant access to organizations working toward that goal.

I have founded such an organization, Global Meditations Network, now reaching millions across the globe to focus on stopping conflicts by co-creating with the consciousness to help bring peace, harmony, and balance to the planet.

The Network is like a lighthouse focusing on the affairs of this age, especially fretful problems that must be solved before peaceful and joyful conditions can be established for generations yet-to-be-born. All can join the Network. Race, creed and color do not matter. Only the consciousness matters.
The Network cooperates with spiritual and scientific members of society to bring to the attention of humanity that mass cooperation can bring about positive results. Its first global meditation was measured by Princeton University scientist Roger Nelson who says, “The possibilities that are implied by a subtle, but effective melding of our separate selves into a larger consciousness are great. And it seems imperative that something like this begin to occur, for we see signs all around us that we, the human skin of the earth, must begin to care more for ourselves en mass, for the earth as a whole.”

The Global Meditations Network continually works with diverse projects, from solving warring conflicts within humanity to bringing peace to the waters of our world. One example of the latter is the water project of Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto whose experiments have proven that water has a consciousness and will try to form a perfect molecular state when positive energy of the consciousness is focused on it. 80 percent of our planet as well as the human body is water. Thus, to return water to a perfect, healthy, peaceful state is good for the planet and all humanity.

National policy on achievement of gender equality in Kyrgyzstan

Gender as a priority problem happens to be the focus of attention of most countries in the world. Thus, in the course of the Millennium Summit, that took place in September 2000, the world leaders with participation of representatives of Kyrgyz Republic confirmed the complex of Millennium goals of United Nations Organization, where one of the goals was to promote the gender equality and extent the rights and opportunities of women.

It is known, in the USSR, including Kyrgyzstan, feminism developed differently. The movement for women’s right was known as “woman’s issue”.

As a result of democratic reforms which took place in Kyrgyzstan after obtaining its sovereignty (1991), consideration of the gender equality problems led to necessity of gender policy development in Kyrgyzstan.

In this paper on the basis of statistical and empirical materials of several sociological researches, conducted by the Republic’s NGO “Woman Support Center” at financial support of number of International Organizations (UNDP, UNFP, UNICEF etc.), there considered problems of formation and development of gender policy in Kyrgyzstan. We should note that the authors of the paper had taken direct participation in above mentioned sociological researches, and Professor Mariam Edilova was the leader of the sociological group. In the proposed article there will be revealed gender policy in Kyrgyzstan and given some recommendations on improvement of gender policy in Kyrgyzstan.

Building a civic society in Kyrgyzstan

The principles of civil society concept take important place in philosophical, sociological and political scientific ideas. In former socialistic countries, including Kyrgyzstan, there was not any independent civil and social life; it was monopolized by the state, by the government. After obtaining its sovereignty (1991) Kyrgyzstan began to realize democratic transformations and build civil society.

In this paper on the basis of theoretical and empirical materials there will be considered problems of civil society building in Kyrgyzstan and the main criterions / indicators of institutionalization of civil society in Kyrgyzstan such as
• transition to market economy;
• “middle class” formation – a social basis of civil society, which is considered as a stabilization factor in society;
• reforms in political system through introduction of changes into the Main Law of the state- the Constitution;
• increasing role of citizens in social and political life of society etc.

Also, there will be analyzed the process of formation of civil society institutes in Kyrgyzstan, the main of which is NGO (there are about 7 thousands, in other words by the number of NGO’s Kyrgyzstan is the leading country among Central Asian states).

We should also note that the process of liberation citizens from subordination to strong authoritarian state power and formation of their habits to lead independent and individual life is proceeding very difficult. 

The authors of the proposed article had taken direct participation in conducting trainings/seminars, writing manuals devoted to democratization issues and civil society as members of republic’s NGO “Women Support Center”.

   

Organized by
World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD)*
*an initiative of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, India