Meet the editors

Maigul Nugmanova graduated from Byelorussian State University with a degree in Political Economy and from Karaganda Economic University with a PhD in Economic Sciences. Her dissertation focused on gender aspects in economic theory. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the American University, Washington, DC, where she focused on gender economics and food security. Currently she is Director of Gender Economics Research Center

(GERC), co-financed by Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, at the Narxoz University (Kazakhstan). Dr. Nugmanova was a project leader/researcher of UN Women project on *Women's unpaid labor in Kazakhstan/modeling of the economic impact of care services institutionalization on women's employment and the economy.* Before she started working at GERC, Dr. Nugmanova was a Head of International Office of Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations; Head of International Programs Department of Kazakh National Agrarian University; country coordinator of ERAS-MUS+ Quality Assurance in Higher Education and SSDS TEMPUS projects; and FAO Extension in Agriculture project coordinator in KazNAU. She was a UNDP national expert for assessment and analysis of the UN/UNDP programs/projects in gender mainstreaming, and elaborated UNDP CO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. She was a national consultant-researcher on human trafficking in Central Asia with the IOM Technical Cooperation Center in Austria. Dr. Nugmanova was an expert for FIBAA European accreditation agency and Educational Advising Center Director in Astana of Soros Foundation Kazakhstan. She is a fellow of Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics Program (USA). She is also a member of Central Eurasian Studies Society.

Heimo Mikkola obtained his PhD from the University of Kuopio, Finland, where he has been teaching before and between his foreign assignments since 1972. Prior to that, he taught for two years at the University of Oulu, Finland, where he obtained his MSc in 1970. In 1988, he became an adjunct professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He has well more than 30 years of experience in development policy and cooperation through

working with growing responsibilities in international organizations, including the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), the European Union, UN System, and World Bank. As Resident Representative of FAO and regularly acting Resident Coordinator of the entire UN System, he managed the daily operations and donor coordination in six countries in the period 1989–2007: Mozambique, Swaziland (now Eswatini ), Malawi, Gambia, Nigeria, and Uruguay. These regional and country-level activities included education management, food aid and food security, diplomatic representation as Head of the Mission, HIV/AIDS counseling, human rights, peacekeeping, refugee problems, and women in development.

Dr. Alexander S. Rozanov is a specialist in Global Security and a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). He is the author of more than 60 scientific publications. After graduating, Dr. Rozanov worked in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Government. In 2014 he received his Ph.D. in Politics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Rozanov was invited as a guest lecturer in several

Contents

**Section 1**

Future Directions

*and Daniel Silverstone*

*by Maigul Nugmanova*

in Kazakhstan: Gender Aspects

*by Judith Cochran and Hugh V. Murray*

in the Republic of Kazakhstan

*by Claudia Chang*

*by Solomon Tekle Abegaz*

*by Maigul Nugmanova*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Education and Sustainable Development **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 37**

**Chapter 3 55**

**Chapter 4 77**

**Chapter 5 87**

Human Rights and Equality in Sustainable Development **95**

**Chapter 6 97**

**Chapter 7 113**

Police Education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and

*by M. Mahruf C. Shohel, Gias Uddin, Julian Parker-McLeod* 

Enhancing Quality of Higher Education and Employability

Towards Global Peace and Sustainability: Role of Education in Peace-Building in the Great Lakes Region of Sub-Saharan Africa

Will Saudi Arabia Move toward Democracy as Socialism Falters?

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Maternal and Child Health

Food Security in Kazakhstan: Do Gender Inequalities Affect?

in Ethiopia: Does it Matter to Promote Health Equities?

Archaeological Sites, Cultural Heritage, and Sustainable Development

*by Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye and Pambas Basil Tandika*

well-known universities – University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), Paris-Sorbonne (France), and Wroclaw University (Poland). Dr. Rozanov specializes in the analysis of global and regional conflicts, as well as the global dynamics of world development. He is a member of the European International Studies Association (Great Britain). Dr. Rozanov is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Regional Studies and International Cooperation at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Dr. Komleva is a dean of the Faculty of Foreign Regional Studies and Regional Administration, as well as a head of Department of Foreign Studies and International Collaboration (Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia). She is a Doctor of Sociology and a general director of the Institute of Political Management. Since 2010, Dr. Komleva has been a member of the Coordination Council under the Chairman

of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for Interaction with Civil Society Institutions. Dr. Komleva is the author of more than 200 publications.
