Nino Kemoklidze

Nino Kemoklidze is an academic and a consultant on all things related to political violence and ethnic conflicts across the world (with a particular focus on Europe and Eurasia). She currently works as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the University of Chichester, UK. Kemoklidze also holds an honorary research fellow status at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Nino Kemoklidze also teaches at the Conflict, Peace and Security Studies masters programme at the very first distance learning university - Barcelona-based Open University of Catalonia (a joint masters programme of the UOC and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)).

Kemoklidze also worked as a Lead Researcher for the Learning Journey on Security and Access to Justice at the Knowledge Evidence and Learning for Development Programme (K4D) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) which supports the use of learning and evidence to improve the impact of development policy and programmes. It is funded by UK AID and is designed to assist the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other partners to be innovative and responsive to rapidly changing and complex development challenges. I have been involved in writing rapid response Helpdesk reports for the K4D too.

She is also an Editor of the journal Caucasus Survey. Her research interests cross over multidisciplinary fields of political violence, ethnic conflict studies, nationalism studies, identity politics, border studies and security studies more generally. Kemoklidze currently works on the manuscript on Self-Determination and Secession across Europe and Eurasia (based on her 2017-20 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship research project) re-examining this highly contentious topic by focusing on the sources of demand for self-determination (and secession) in Europe and Eurasia.

In the course of her career Kemoklidze studied and worked in several countries across the world including Australia, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, UK, US and her native Georgia.

Before academia, Nino Kemoklidze worked as a Diplomatic Attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Georgia as well as in the human rights sector at the Refugee Programme of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Budapest.