Maryam Sugaipova
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Maryam Sugaipova is a senior advisor at NUPI. At the institute, Maryam is a project coordinator, as well as a research administrator at the Research Administration Unit, FADEN. Maryam has administrative responsibilities for NUPI's research groups on Climate and Energy, and Russia, Asia and International Trade. She is also a FADEN representative at NUPI’s Internal Review Board (IRB). She works with acquisition and implementation of grants by Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Defence, EEA, EU, and other national and international funders. Maryam coordinates the Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics and has unique competence on the North Caucasus region.
Maryam has broad experience with project acquisition, management and coordination, and has extensive competency in the field of human rights from her previous work experiences. She has a master’s degree in social economy from the University of Oslo.
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2009-2015 Masters degree in Social Economics, University of Oslo
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2023- Senior Advisor, NUPI
2021-2023 Advisor, NUPI
2017-2020 Advisor, NUPI
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The Chechen post-war diaspora in Norway and their visions of legal models
This article examines how understandings of the rule of law are shaped in the Chechen diaspora in Norway. Taking as our point of departure studies of legal pluralism and the co-existence of traditional Adat, religious Sharia and Russian secular law in Chechnya, we examine the effect of living in a host country by asking: How do members of the Chechen diaspora, here defined as conflict-generated diaspora, view and internalize legal models in Norway? What type of state governance do they see as ideal for themselves and for Chechnya in the future? Further: what might the underlying explanation for their choices be? We assume that just as different waves of violence in Chechnya created different diaspora communities that today exhibit specific social, cultural and political traits, the latest wave of forced emigration to Europe after the post-Soviet Russo–Chechen wars may have made specific imprints on the legal preferences of this diaspora. The picture that emerges from our in-depth individual interviews and surveys is one of gradual adaptation and adjustment to Norwegian state governance and rule of law, demonstrating the complex and co-constitutive relationships between changing identities and legal preferences.