Pinar Akpinar is a lecturer and vice director at Center for International Conflict Resolution at Yalova University, Turkey and a PhD candidate at School of Politics, International Relations & Philosophy (SPIRE), Keele University. She is also, Vice Coordinator of the Intellectuals Forum at the 4th UN Conference on the LDCs.
She received her BA degree in Mass Media from Yeditepe University, and her MA degree in Middle East Studies from Işık University in 2009. Akpinar also worked in various NGOs on areas of peace, democracy and environment including field studies in Armenia, Israel, Kyrgyzstan as well as Turkey. Her areas of research include Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle Eastern Peace Process, Conflict Resolution, and International Mediation.
Akpinar’s PhD research aims to understand to what extent Turkey's mediation differs from Western mediation approaches. She also focuses on the change in Turkish foreign policy in the last decade and the emergence of Turkey’s mediator role as a tool of foreign policy. During her visit at SCAR, she is continuing her research on her PhD thesis as well as writing an article on Turkey’s peace initiative in Somalia.
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Pınar Akpınar, “Çatışma Çözümleri Perspektifinden Suriye-İsrail Meselesi,” [Syrian-Israeli Conflict from a Perspective of Conflict Resolution], in Nezir Akyesilmen (ed.), Barışı Konuşmak: Teori ve Pratikte Çatışma Yönetimi [Talking about Peace: Conflict Management in Theory and Practice], Ankara: METU Publication, 2013.
Bülent Aras ve Pınar Akpınar, “The Relations between Turkey and the Caucasus,” Perceptions, v.16, 2011.
Bülent Aras ve Pınar Akpınar, “Türkiye’nin Yeni Dış Politikası ve Ortadoğu için Anlamı”, Sharq Namah (Mısır’da yayınlanan Siyaset Dergisi), Ahmet Davutoğlu Özel Sayısı, Haziran 2010.
Bülent Aras ve Pınar Akpınar, “Davutoğlu Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası: 2009 Değerlendirmesi”, Türk Dış Politikası 2009 Yıllığı, Burhanettin Duran, Kemal İnat ve Muhittin Ataman, (ed.), (Ankara: SETA, Mart 2011).
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Pınar Akpınar, “Turkish aid to Somalia: A new pulse in Africa?,” Al Jazeera, 2/9/2011.
Pınar Akpınar, “İsveç’te gezinen ırkçı hayalet,” [The Racist Ghost Over Sweden], Star Açık Görüş, 4/10/2010.
Pınar Akpınar, “Ermenistan'dan bir izlenim,” [An Observation from Armenia], Taraf, 19/03/2009.
Teaching Experience:
Foreign Policy Analysis, Yalova University, Spring 2013.
State and Society in Turkey, Yalova University, Fall 2010, Spring 2013.
The Changing World: A History of International Relations since 1945, Keele University, Fall 2012.
Contemporary Issues in Turkish Foreign Policy, Yalova University, Fall 2010.
Events:
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· Pınar Akpınar, “Three Pillars of Turkey's Development Aid to Somalia: State, Corporates, and Civil Society,”
Near East South Asia Strategic Studies Network Summit, Bangkok, November 3-6, 2012.
· Pınar Akpınar, “Developing the OIC Approach Towards Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power,” International Model of Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (IMOIC) Global Summit, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation, July 3-10, 2012.
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margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· Pınar Akpınar, “The Emerging Role of Turkey as a Mediator: a Tool of Hegemony or ‘Order Bringing’?” Keele University Emerging Securities Research Seminar Series / Stoke-on-Trent, UK March 21, 2012.
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· Pınar Akpınar, “Turkey’s Policy in Afghanistan,” Regional Network of Strategic Studies Centers, Reconciliation, Reconstruction, and Reintegration Working Group Meeting / Rome, Italy, February 10, 2011.
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· Pınar Akpınar, “Participation of Turkish Youth in Civil Society,” STGM-CSI Workshop on Civil Society Dialogue, Yerevan, Armenia, March 13, 2009.
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· Turkije Instituut – “Religious Symbols in Public Space,” Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 9, 2008.
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· Turkish-Kyrgyz Women Solidarity Platform Visit, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, February 27 – March 3, 2011.
margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-39.8pt;line-height:normal;">· International Electoral Education Council, Electoral Observation Study Tour, Stokholm, Sweden, September 15-21, 2010.
