Graduate Support Office announces the ‘Graduate of the Month’ for April
April 2, 2007
Beginning with March 2007, the Marshall Center Graduate Support Office launched an initiative to select and feature a Marshall Center “Graduate of the Month.” The purpose of this initiative is to feature Marshall Center alumni who are playing an active role in furthering the ideals of the Marshall Center in creating a more stable security environment by advancing democratic institutions and relationships; promoting active, peaceful security cooperation; and enhancing enduring partnerships among the nations of North America, Europe, Eurasia, and beyond.
COL Jonmahmad Rajabov, Marshall Center Graduate of the Month, April 2007
COL Jonmahmad Rajabov Featured as Marshall Center “Graduate of the Month”
Congratulations to Colonel Jonmahmad Rajabov, Head, Tajik Mine Action Center, Republic of Tajikistan, for being selected as the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Graduate of the Month for April, 2007.
After being nominated for attendance at the Marshall Center by the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan, then Lieutenant Colonel Rajabov was selected to attend the Marshall Center’s very first program – Executive Course 1994-1, when he was serving as Chief of the MOD’s Legal Department. He was later promoted to Colonel, and served as Deputy Chief, Department of Constitutional Guarantees of Rights of Citizens, Office of the President of Tajikistan.
When asked how his Marshall Center experience may have prepared him for this position, he noted that the course was particularly useful in that it helped him broaden his knowledge of international security issues, and his understanding of how to develop a national security strategy, and a military strategy.
COL Rajabov was assigned to his current duties at the Tajik Mine Action Center on 2 July 2003. He stated that, “the knowledge gained at the Marshall Center helped me to become familiar with matters of policy, international cooperation, conducting negotiations, and developing my country’s policy with regards to the battle against anti-personnel mines.”
COL Rajabov acknowledged that his Marshall Center experience was especially useful as it helped him better understand questions of international and regional security, the role of superpowers in maintaining security, peacekeeping operations, lessons learned from past wars, and the role played by international humanitarian law in those wars.
COL Rajabov returned to the Marshall Center in March 2005, to participate in the first alumni Graduate Advisory Exchange, during which 16 Marshall Center alumni were invited to Garmisch for an exchange of ideas about the key security issues in Europe and Eurasia. The group then helped develop recommendations for Marshall Center activities in key areas such as the War on Terrorism, Defense Reform, and International Legal Standards, among others.
Currently active on the Managing Council of the Marshall Center Alumni Association in Tajikistan, COL Rajabov is a PhD. candidate.
