ANARA TABYSHALIEVA   is an associate professor of history.  She teaches courses in modern and pre-modern Asian history, South and Central Asia, East Asia, Modern China, Modern Japan, Modern Russia, Women, War and Peace, Women in Islamic societies, and From Silk to Oil.  Her research projects have been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation, the UNESCO Hirayama Silk Road Program (France), the US Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the United Nation Development Program (UNDP).  She has been a scholar in residence at United Nations University in Japan and at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, University of Birmingham (UK).  She has authored several books and numerous chapters, articles, and reports on history, international relations, development, and gender issues.  Dr. Tabyshalieva served as co-editor of the UNESCO volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Towards the Contemporary Period: From the Mid-nineteenth to the End of the Twentieth Century (Paris, 2005).  She is also the author of the UNESCO report on human security in Central/South Asia (Paris, 2007), and co-editor, with Albrecht Schnabel, of Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (UNU Press, 2012).