Sergey Rumyansev is a sociologist. In 2003-2014, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku). Since 2015, he is a co-founder of Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin) and leads projects on peaceful conflict transformation. His main areas of research include diaspora and migration, nationalism, politics of memory, history politics, Soviet studies, conflicts in the post-Soviet space. He is the author of Migration and Diaspora-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Main Tendencies and Dominant Discourses (2014); and the editor of Non-Objective Conflicts: Political Practices of Sharing the Common Past. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria (2017).