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Vitáli Silítski ((ベラルーシ語:Віталь Сіліцкі/Vital Silicki); (ロシア語:Виталий Вячеславович Силицкий); 25 December 1972 — 11 June 2011〔(В память Виталия Силицкого )〕) was a Belarusian political scientist, analyst, the first director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.〔(Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies )〕 He got his PhD in political science from the Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). Vitali Silitski is the author of the concepts of preventive authoritarianism and authoritarian international; civil activist and blogger. He died at the age of 38 years from kidney cancer. ==Biography== Vitali Silitski was born in Minsk, BSSR, USSR. His mother is a teacher in a kindergarten; father and brother are of working specialties. In 1989-1994 he studied at the Belarusian State University in Minsk at the Department of Economics and Philosophy. He got a diploma with honours in Sociology awarded on June, 1994. Topic of thesis: ''“The Formation of Political Elite in Belarus”''.〔(Vitali Silitski. Curriculum Vitae )〕 In 1993-1994 Vitali studied at the Central European University in Budapest. Was awarded the Master in Politics degree in August, 1994. Topic of thesis: ''“The Political Aspects of the Privatization Process in Eastern Europe”''.〔 In 1994-1999 he studied at the Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, United States). Was awarded the PhD degree in Political Science in October 1999. Topic of PhD dissertation: ''“Constraints and Coalitions: Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe after Return of the Left”''.〔 Supervisor: PhD Robert R. Kaufman.〔(Robert R. Kaufman )〕 In 1999-2003 Vitali worked as Associate Professor at Department of Economics in the European Humanities University (EHU) in Minsk (on leave March–August 1999 and October 2001-April 2002). He was forced to quit by administration for publicly criticising the government of Alexander Lukashenka.〔 While working at EHU, Vitali has designed and taught courses "The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Eastern Europe and Latin America", Introduction to International Political Economy", "International Political Economy of Industrialization in East Asia", "Economic Policy", “The Political Economy of European Integration”, “From Totalitarianism to Civil Society: Social and Political Transformation of East Central Europe” to undergraduate and graduate students.〔 In October 2004-July 2005 Vitali was awarded a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in the National Endowment for Democracy at Washington D.C., the USA.〔 In February 2006-February 2007 he got visiting scholarship at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University (sponsored by Stanford and Scholars Rescue Fund, Institute for International Education).〔 As an independent expert Vitali participated in research of nongovernmental organisation Freedom House (USA), cooperated with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and international consulting company Oxford Analytica.〔 In 2007-2011 Vitali Silitski worked as the director of the (Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies ), the analytic center created in October 2006 by a group of famous public figures and intellectuals and registered in Lithuania. The Institute develops and offers positive alternative scenarios of political, economic, and social transformation of the country, and lays out ways to enhance the competitiveness of Belarus and the welfare of Belarusian citizens.〔(Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies: About )〕 In their memories about Vitali Silitski his friends and colleagues noted that it was impossible not to become friends with him, he entered the life of everybody he met. Vitali Silitski was also a big fan of the football club Liverpool. He shared other interesting information about himself publishing in the Facebook 25+1 random facts about him.〔(Vitali Silitski. 25+1 random facts about me. )〕 When in July 2010 Vitali Silitski discovered his illness – kidney cancer, his friends and colleagues supported him. The surgical removal of a kidney, made in Belarus, did not help and the international fundraising campaign was organised. Vitali had spent a lot of time in a hospital in Belgium, but the cancer was progressing and he returned home, in Belarus, where he spent last days with his friends and family. ''“I am dying. But make everything to keep alive the ideas, I lived for”'', said Vitali to his friends in one of his last days.〔(Памёр палітолаг Віталь Сіліцкі )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vitali Silitski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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