Publications and Research



The Culture of Trust pocket guide was designed and produced by the Kazan RTC. It is meant to help law enforcement officers orient themselves to the region's prevalent religions and cultivate an attitude of respect toward them. The topics include: religion and state, interfaith relations in Tatarstan, believers and the law, world religions, new religious cultures, religious cults and religious fanaticism. It has been distributed to 5,000 police officers in the region, with priority going to patrol officers in areas around churches and mosques.

The Culture of Trust pocket guide has attracted national attention. In Moscow, the Russian Federation's Commission on Tolerance and Religious Freedom invited the director of the Climate of Trust's Kazan RTC to join a working group that will produce a similar guide for police officers across the entire country.

Publication of a nationwide quarterly journal on tolerance
The Stavropol RTC recently began publishing a quarterly journal on tolerance in collaboration with the Stavropol Center for the Study of Terrorism. Topics covered included: problems for ethnic and religious tolerance in post-Soviet Russia; teaching tolerance in the Northern Caucasus; volunteer work as a catalyst for fostering tolerance and countering extremism in youth.

The Stavropol RTC plans to include material and articles from all of the Tolerance Centers. This will provide the Climate of Trust with access to readers across the entire country.

Publications in St. Petersburg
Within the framework of the Climate of Trust, the St. Petersburg RTC and its partners have systematized data on offenders who were convicted or suspected of committing hate crimes. Using these data, the Bureau of Forensic Psychiatry of Leningrad Oblast published a brochure entitled "Ethnic and Cultural Aspects of the Development, Formation, and Dissemination of Psychological Divergences and Disorders among Juveniles".

A group of researchers affiliated with the St. Petersburg RTC has completed the work begun by late Nikolai Girenko - a human rights activist and researcher who was brutally murdered in 2004 - of publishing a textbook entitled "Socio-humanitarian Expertise in Cases Involving Hate Crimes". It is used as an instruction manual by police investigators, prosecutors and experts who deal with hate crimes.

Publications in Ryazan
The Ryazan RTC has prepared for publication an instructional manual entitled "Hate Crimes". It describes different types and forms of hate crimes and provides methodological tools for effective investigation and prosecution of such crimes.  

In 2004, the Director of the Ryazan RTC published a monograph entitled "Sharia". The study analyzes the importance of Sharia law in Islam and its role in preventing religious extremism and promoting interfaith trust and respect.

Research
Participants of the Climate of Trust regularly conduct research on hate crimes and extremism. In 2006, Denis Nekrasov, a lecturer of the Ryazan RTC, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Crimes Motivated by Race and Ethnicity". Another member of the Ryazan RTC, Ivan Kuzmin, is currently working on his doctoral research project entitled "Hate Crimes and the Internet". In St. Petersburg, Olga Korshunova, the Pro-rector of the Law Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office and a long-term partner of the Climate of Trust, has completed her research on the specific challenges involved in prosecuting hate crimes.

 


 

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