The Laboratory for Transnistrian Conflict Analysis (LACT) of Sibiu, Romania, in cooperation with the Balkan History Association (BHA) of Bucharest have announced the launch of a new international research project entitled “Armed Conflict on the Dniester – Political and Social Implications for the Republic of Moldova”. The study will be published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group, in the series “South-East European History”.

The two partners will coordinate the printing of a collective volume that will be entitled as the research project. Among the editors of the volume are by an expert from LACT, BHA, the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research Institute of Chisinau and of three U.S. institutions: US Army War College of Carlisle (Iowa), Florida Atlantic University sand University of North-Carolina at Greensboro. The volume is to be issued next summer.

LACT director, Professor Eugen Străuțiu invited Moldovan authors who are experts in security studies, including studies covering the Transnistrian dispute, to cooperate with them.

The volume will elucidate the political and geopolitical causes of the war of 1992, will assess the documentary sources and will analyze the combatant forces from quantitative and qualitative viewpoints. It will also examine the interests of international players and their political and military actions, etc.

The initiator of the project, LACT, is the only research center in the world that deals exclusively with the studying of the Transnistrian conflict. The Balkan History Association is an independent institution whose goal is to develop and promote at national and international levels the interdisciplinary and comparative research on the Balkan region and also of Southeastern Europe, which includes the Republic of Moldova.