Krassimir Kanev
Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS Home: Nadezhda 6, Bl. 636, Vh. B, Apt. 85
1231 Sofia, Bulgaria
Work: 7 Varbitsa St., 1504 Sofia
Telephone/fax: (359 2)9434876; (359
2)9439060; mobile: (359)48971633
E-mail: krassimir@bghelsinki.org
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH July 2, 1958; Vetren, Bulgaria
NATIONALITY Bulgarian
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Ph.D. in Philosophy - University of Sofia, 1986
* MA in Philosophy - University of Sofia, 1982
* MA in History - University of Sofia, 1982
* Certificate for a successful completion of the program "Religion, Human
Rights and Religious Freedom" at Columbia University, NY, USA - September
1996 - March 1997
* Diploma - French language, Institute of Foreign Students, Sofia, 1987
* Certificate - Polish Language School, Sofia, 1986
* Diploma - Russian Language High School, Stara Zagora, 1976
LANGUAGES Bulgarian (native); English, Russian (fluent); Polish (fair);
can read and understand German, French, Bielorussian, Croatian, Macedonian,
Serbian, Ukranian.
AWARDS
Human Rights award of the Romani Baht Foundation for contribution in the
protection of the human rights of Roma – 2001.
Human Rights Watch - Human Rights Monitor for 1996
Golden Medal for Excellent Performance, University of Sofia, 1981
EMPLOYMENT
I. Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
Chair, October 1994 - continues
Work experience: Directing the work of the organization, which is a national
non profit human rights group devoted to monitoring the human rights situation
in Bulgaria and some other OSCE countries. Monitoring compliance by the
authorities with international human rights standards is the main purpose
of the BHC. The work of the BHC includes also projects of legal defense,
refugee legal assistance and integration, religious freedoms, prisoners'
and other detainees' rights, assistance to humanitarian aid programs, juvenile
delinquency and freedom of expression. The organization publishes the monthly
magazine, Obektiv, the bi-monthly newsletter Face to Face (in four languages)
and the quarterly newsletter "Refugees - today and tomorrow". It also publishes
annual human rights reports about Bulgaria as well as thematic reports on
a variety of subjects. The BHC currently employs 24 persons.
II. University of Plovdiv
Associate Professor, March 1999 – continues
Work experience: Teaching courses
* Critical Theory, 1999 – continues – An overview of the Critical Theory
as developed by the Frankfurt School – for 2-nd year sociology students.
* Sociology of Law, 2000 – continues – an advanced course of sociology
of law and criminal justice – for 5-th year sociology students. It includes
a section on human rights.
III. University of Sofia
Associate Professor, September 1994 - March 1998
Work experience: Teaching courses:
* Sociology, 1995-1996
- General introductory course including both an outline of history of Sociology
and modern sociological theory.
* Sociology of
Culture, 1994-1995 A general course of Sociology of Culture as understood
in the German sociological tradition.
Research:
* Survey "Social
Trends in Bulgaria 1960-1995" (focused on social movements, marginal and
extremist political tendencies using trend analysis)
* "Development
of Political Ideology in Bulgaria since 1989" (content analysis of political
platforms)
* Cross-national
survey "Inter-ethnic Relations in Bulgaria and in the Balkans" (special
focus on inter-ethnic attitudes - prejudice, social distances, value orientations)
* Survey "Compatibility
and Incompatibility between Christians and Muslims in Bulgaria"
Research Fellow, January 1987-September 1994
Work experience: Research:
* Bureaucratization
of Social Structures
* Social Stratification
in Marxism
Teaching courses:
* Aesthetics,
1987-1993 (theory and history)
IV. University of Sarajevo, BiH
Visiting Professor, Spring 2001
Work experience: Teaching course on economic, social and cultural rights.
IV. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Visiting Professor, Spring 1995
Work experience: Teaching course "Environment and Eastern Europe".
V. Central European University, Budapest
Visiting Professor, 1998 – 2000
Teaching a course: “Church and State in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia
and Romania”.
VI. Office of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria
Expert, September 1990 - April 1993
Work Experience: Consulted the President on ethnic and religious problems;
analyzed information and build strategies on issues of ethnic and national
policy; participated in official domestic and international meetings and
task forces representing the President; maintained contacts with ethnic and
religious communities.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND MONITORING EXPERIENCE
As part of international missions and consultancy groups conducted human
rights missions, trainings and other activities in the following countries:
- 2002 – trained Belorussian journalists and NGOs on
CoE standards on freedom of expression;
- 2002 – trained and evaluated the work of the Public
Defender’s Office of Georgia on monitoring police misconduct, invited by ODIHR;
- 2001 – conducted one-week human rights monitoring mission
in the prisons and remand detention centers in Kosovo as a part of a 7-member
international team on an invitation by UNMIK;
- 2001 – took part in a training of Central Asian and
Caucasian NGOs in human rights monitoring standards in Vienna, Austria, invited
by the IHF;
- 2000 – conducted one-week training of human rights
NGOs in Abkhazia on an invitation by UN/OSCE mission in Abkhazia;
- 1999 – conducted human rights training on standards
of prison monitoring for NGOs from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Gudauri,
Georgia, invited by COLPI;
- 1999 – headed a BHC team to conduct training of human
rights NGOs from Russia’s regions in Moscow, Russia, invited by several
Russian foundations.
- 1997 – 2002 – conducted human rights monitoring missions
in a number of countries, including Macedonia, Albania, Kososvo, Russia,
Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
CONSULTANCY AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
* Evaluator of the Bulgarian Roma school desegregation programs on assignment
by the OSI-Budapest, 2002.
* Serves as the Bulgarian reporter to the OSI Accession Monitoring Program
since the beginning of the program in 2001.
* Member of the Executive Committee of the International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights (IHF) since 1998.
* Member of the editorial board of the journal “Human Rights” (in Bulgarian)
– since 2001.
* Member of the editorial board of the journal Southeast European Politics
– since 2000.
* Member of the Expert Council on State and Civil Society at the Open Society
Foundation - Sofia, March 1996 - 1999.
* Member of the Sociology Board at the International Center for Minority
Studies and Inter-cultural Relations, September 1993-.
* Served as German Marshall Fund Fellow, Campus Fellowship Program administered
by The Woodrow Wilson national Fellowship foundation, Juniata College, Pennsylvania,
New England College, New Hampshire, and Linfield College, Oregon, March
1995.
* Served as Consultant to Bulgarian President on inter-ethnic and religious
issues, September 1990- April 1993.
* Served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Youth
Studies, Sofia, 1990-1992.
* Served as member of the official Bulgarian delegation at the CSCE Expert
Meeting on National Minorities, Geneva, June-July 1991.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
With Alexander Kashumov, The Case of Bulgaria, in: Andrea Krizsan (ed.),
Ethnic Monitoring and Data Protection: The European Context, Budapest, CEU
Press, 2001.
Minority Protection in Bulgaria, in: Monitoring the EU Accession Process:
Minority Protection, Budapest: CEU Press, 2001.
Educational Boarding Schools and Social-Pedagogical Boarding Schools in
Bulgaria, in: Educational Boarding Schools and Social-Pedagogical Boarding
Schools, Sofia, BHC, 2001.
Ethnic Identity, Interethnic Attitudes and Religiosity [of the Bulgarian
Jews], in: Baruh, Emmy (ed.). Jews on the Bulgarian Lands: Sofia: IMIR,
2000. English language edition, Sofia IMIR, 2001.
Comments on the decisions of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court on human
rights, vol.1-4, Sofia: BHC, 1999.
"Changing Attitudes towards the ethnic minorities in Bulgaria and the Balkans
1992-97", in: Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Central Europe and the Balkans,
Thanasis Sfikas and Christopher Williams (eds.), Ashgate: Aldershot etc.,
1999.
“Political Differentiation” and “Raicalism”, in: Genov, Nikolai and Anna
Krasteva (eds.), Bulgaria 1960-1995: Trends of Social Development, Sofia:
National and Global Development, 1999.
“Law and Politics towards the Muslims of Bulgaria”, paper presented at
the Conference “Islam and Human Rights in Post-Communist Europe”, Sofia,
15-16 March 1999.
"Law and Politics towards Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Bulgaria",
in: Communities and Identities, Sofia: Petexton, 1998 (in Bulgarian and in
English).
With Emil Cohen - "Religious Freedom in Bulgaria", in: Journal of Ecumenical
Studies”, 36:1-2, Winter-Spring, 1999.
Language of the Left in Britain and Bulgaria, paper prepared for the Conference
"Political Language in Britain and Bulgaria", Sofia, 13-14 September 1997.
Incorporation and Freedom of Religion, paper prepared for the Conference
"Religious Organizations and the Human Rights Movement: Affinities &
Divergences, Budapest, March 24-25, 1997.
Armonia etnica e dritti umani in Bulgaria, Futuribili, n.1-2, 1997.
From Totalitarianism to a Constitutional State, in: Bulgaria at the Crossroads,
Jacques Coenen-Huther (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1996.
Dynamics of Inter-ethnic tensions in Bulgaria and the Balkans, in: Balkan
Forum, Vol.4, No.2 (15), June 1996. Reprinted in Religion in Eastern Europe,
December 1996. Translated also in Serbian in: Gradina, No. 12, 1997, p.171-202.
Faith and Sin: The Persecution of Homosexualism in History. Democratichen
Pregled, No.8-9, 1995. (in Bulgarian)
Ideological Spectrum, in: Elections'91: ideological aspects, Sofia, Univ.
of Sofia Press, 1994 (in Bulgarian).
Platforms of Ethnopolitical Parties, in: Elections'91: ideological aspects,
Sofia, Univ. of Sofia Press, 1994 (in Bulgarian).
With Zh. Georgiev, I. Tomova and M. Grekova. Some Results of the Survey
'Ethnocultural Situation in Bulgaria', Sociologicheski Pregled, No 3, 1993
(in Bulgarian).
Review of the Laws and Practices of Decommunization, in: European Convention
of Human Rights and Bulgarian Legislation, BAFE publication, 1993 (in Bulgarian).
Ethnonational Problems and the Formation of the Political Spectrum in Bulgaria,
in: Aspects of the ethnocultural situation in Bulgaria, Sofia, Friedrich
Naumann Foundation ed., 1992, reprinted in the revised edition of Access,
1994 (In Bulgarian).
Decommunization and Human Rights, in: Bulgarian Quarterly, Summer, 1992
(in English, Bulgarian, German and French).
The image of the 'other' among the religious communities in Bulgaria, in:
Relations of Compatibility and incompatibility between the Christians and
the Muslims in Bulgaria, Sofia, ICMSIR, 1994 (in Bulgarian and in English).
The One-Dimensional Man Before the Trial of Critical Theory, in: Kritika
I Humanisam, No 1, March, 1991, pp.41-65.
Bulgaria: the Romantic Period of the Opposition Continues, in: Praxis International,
No 3/4, Vol.10, Oct.1990 - Jan.1991, pp.306-317.
The Reception of the Frankfurt School in the Soviet Union and in Some Other
Eastern European Countries, in: P. v Engeldorp Gastelaars, Sl. Magala, O.
Reuss (eds.) Critics and Critical Theory in Europe. The Hague, 1990, pp.27-41.
Schiller and Marcuse, in: Yearbook of Sofia University, vol.78, Ser. Philosophy,
1989 (in Bulgarian).
Industrial Society in the Framework of Reason, in: Sociologicheski Problemi,
No 3, 1986 (in Bulgarian).
On the Foundation of the 'Censorship of Meaning', in: Problems of Contemporary
Logic, Sofia, Nauka I Izkustvo Publ., 1985 (in Bulgarian).
Aristotle and the 'Theory of Relations', in Philosofska Misal, No 4, 1982
(in Bulgarian).
The Problem of the 'Dialectics' in Aristotle's 'Organon', in: Philosofska
Misal, No 9, 1980 (in Bulgarian).