Danish Association for Research on the Caucasus is governed by an elected board consisting of: Markus Bogisch (chairman), Anders Nielsen (deputy chairman), Carl Erik Foverskov (secretary), Søren Theisen (treasurer), Lars Funch Hansen, Britta Johnsen, Märta-Lisa Magnusson, Flemming Olsen, and Jesper Weng Rasmussen. Deputy members of the board are Helle Blomquist, Martin Demant Frederiksen, and Jana Sommerlund.

The board brought a decision that the association will work closely with successful online platforms and today, it is partially subsidized by sports betting websites. By using their offers, a small commission goes back to the association. For example, by obtaining an offer of 10 free hockey picks for a minimum deposit of $50, the association will receive 10% back. All funds are used for research projects.

M.A. (Art History). Ass. lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Sciences and the Arts, University of Copenhagen.

Topics of special interest: Medieval art and architecture of the South Caucasus and the historical provinces of Tao-Klarjeti (north-eastern Turkey). Current projects: The establishment of an international network between scholars specialised in the architectural heritage of north-eastern Turkey, with the primary aim to exchange information and to work for the monuments’ protection and preservation.

Relevant publications:

"The Art and Architecture of Tao-Klarjeti", in: Kristianobis ozi saukune sakartveloshi/Twenty Centuries of Christianity in Georgia (Tbilisi, 2004), 86-91.

"The basilica of Otkhta Eklesia", in: Historical Monuments of South Georgia and North-Eastern Anatolia (Tbilisi, 2006). [in press]

"Neue Materialien zur Kreuzkuppelkirche in Yeni Rabat", Oriens Christianus, 90 (2006), 143-186.

M.A. in History of religion and Russian. Several stays in Russia, Ukraine and the Southern Caucasus, including field work in Georgia 2003. Teaches Comparative Religion in the Danish upper secondary school ("gymnasiet") and at "Folkeuniversitetet" in Copenhagen.

Topics of interest: Religion and history in the Caucasus. Special focus on: 1) The meaning and function of religious symbols and artefacts in the orthodox churches in the former Soviet republics. 2) Church and State relations in Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Master of Science (Chemistry). Former Associate Professor at Technical University of Denmark. Studying History at Copenhagen University (Economic History and Eastern European Studies).

Topics of special interest: Chechnya. Member of the board of The Danish Support Committee for Chechnya and The Chechen-Danish Society.

Writer/Consultant, with a background in History and Iranology. Has travelled the region intensively, partly in connection with private research projects, partly as a longterm electional observer. Member of the Danish Humanitarian Response Network under the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Topics of special interest: History, Religion, organisation of society and political culture in the Near Orient, especially Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan.

Relevant publications:

"Tragedien i Nagorno Karabakh", Kontakt, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, nr. 48, Sept. 1990.

"Mountaineers, Racketeers and the Ideals of Modernity: Statebuilding and Elite-Competition in Caucasia", in: Ole Høiris & Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.), Contrasts and solutions in the Caucasus (Aarhus, 1998).

"Etnicitet og Politik i Iran før og nu", Semiramis nr. 6, 1999.

"Georgien - klanernes nationalstat", Udenrigs nr. 2, 2000.

"Opløsning truer Aserbajdsjan", Udenrigs nr. 1, 2001.

"Historie og Landskab", in: Ib Faurby & Märta Lisa Magnusson (eds.), Korsvej og Minefelt: Kultur og Konflikt i Kaukasus (Aarhus, 2003).

"Demokrati og Klankultur", in: Ib Faurby & Märta Lisa Magnusson (eds.), Korsvej og Minefelt: Kultur og Konflikt i Kaukasus (Aarhus, 2003).

"Georgien – roser med torne", Udenrigs nr. 1, 2004.

"Valg i Sydkaukasus: Armenien og Aserbajdsjan", Udenrigs nr. 3, 2004.

M.A. (Geography and Communication), East European Studies. Many periods in Russia, including several longer periods and field work in the North Caucasus. Several shorter periods spent in the South Caucasus. Have worked as a consultant for especially international organisations and institutions with a special focus on the situation and conflicts in the North Caucasus. Has since 2000 worked for the Danish Refugee Council as project manager, - with a special focus on civil society development in a post-conflict context in the Balkans.

"Cevernyj Kavkaz – narody na pereputje", in cooperation with Helen Krag, Evropeiskij Dom (Sankt Peterburg, 1996)  

"Cultural Boundaries and Identity Building in the North Caucasus", in: Ole Høiris & Sefa M. Yürükel (eds.), Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus (Aarhus, 1998). 

"An Overview of the North Caucasian Peoples", in cooperation with Helen Krag, in: Mehmet Tütüncü (ed.), Caucasus: War and Peace, SOTA (Haarlem, Netherlands, 1998) 

"The Meskhetian Turks", UNHCR (Geneva, 1999). 

"Nordkaukasus – Folk og Politik i en Europæisk Grænseregion", in cooperation with Helen Liesl Krag, Museum Tusculanums Forlag (Copenhagen, 2002)

"Demografiske forandringer i Nordkaukasus", in: Ib Faurby & Märta-Lisa Magnusson (eds.): Korsvej og Minefelt: Kultur og Konflikt i Kaukasus, Systime (Århus, 2003)

"Prigorodnij-konflikten", in cooperation with Helen Liesl Krag, in: Ib Faurby & Märta-Lisa Magnusson (eds.): Korsvej og Minefelt: Kultur og Konflikt i Kaukasus, Systime (Århus, 2003)

Topics of special interest: History – especially Caucasus, Russia and Turkey. The Danish help work among the Armenians 100 years ago. Chairman of the Comity to mark Maria Jacobsen’s and Karen Jeppes’ work.

Relevant publications:

The following works are in progress:

A fair copy of Maria Jacobsens handwritten diary from 1907 to 1919 – 963 pages. (To be published in 2007.)

Participating in a book-projekt on Maria Jacobsen, a witness to the Armenian Genocide. (To be published 2007.)

Also currently working on a biography on Karen Jeppe.

Ph.D. (Slavic Languages), assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

Topics of special interest: North Caucasus and Chechnya.

Relevant publications:

"Chechnya. Report of An International Alert Fact-Finding Mission", in co-operation with Abderrazakh Essaied & Paul Henze (London, 1992).

"Konflikten mellem Nordossetien og Ingusjija", Vindue mod øst, nr. 25, 1993.

"Revner Rusland?", in co-operation with Ib Faurby, Udenrigs nr. 2, 1995.

"Nordkaukasus", in: Jens-Jørgen Jensen & Märta-Lisa Magnusson (eds.), Rusland - samling eller sammenbrud? (Esbjerg, 1995).

MA in International Development Studies/geography.

Topics of special interest: Georgia, Russia's foreign policy in the South-Caucasus, security politics, oil politics, oil pipe-lines, state sovereignty.

MA (political science). Has studied at the Khazar University in Baku for one year; short-term election observer for the OSCE at the presidential elections in Azerbaijan in 2003. Has written his MA-thesis about the political culture in Azerbaijan.

LLM, MA, PH.D. Has conducted a survey and inquiry on the integration of refugees in North Ossetia.

Topics of special interest: Legal regulation of refugees; legal systems

M.A. student, Dept. of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Has visited the region in 2004 and 2005, and done long term anthropological fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2006. Member of Editorial Board of Kontur – Journal of Cultural Studies (Inst. of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus) and Peer Reviewer for Anthropology Matters Journal.

Topics of special interest: The role of future in everyday praxis and social imagination, primarily in relation to street youth. Forms – and social consequences of violence, identity politics, cultural representation, and NGOing and psychosocial development in post-soviet and post-conflict areas.

Main Area: Southern Caucasus

Relevant publications:

"Armenien, Forestilling og Erfaring - Fortællinger om Møder med et Hjemland" (With Katrine B. Gotfredsen). Jordens Folk – Etnografisk Tidsskrift (2005).

"Invisible Suffering – Mental Illness, Social Annihilation and Violence in Contemporary Georgia", Kontur – Tidsskrift for Kulturstudier Nr. 14 (2006) [in press]

Journalist, student of political sciences

Topics of special interest: security issues and foreign policy in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia

M. Jarlner og D. Sommerlund, "Tjetjenien vakler mellem krig og fred", Information (9 June 1999), p. 7

M. Jarlner og D. Meskhi (Sommerlund), "Russiske grænsepolitik", Politiken (1 March 1995), Kultur og Debat, p.3