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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120607T123000
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SUMMARY:USAID Experience with Legislative Strengthening in the Former Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:With \nDr. Eric Rudenshiold\, Senior Officer in Charge of Kyrgyzstan and the Central Asian Republics at USAID\nKregg Halstead\, Chief of Party of USAIDs “Kyrgyzstan Parliamentary Strengthening Program” being implemented by DAI\n \nModerated by\nDr. Sean Roberts\, Director and Associate Professor\, International Development Studies Program\, The Elliott School of International Affairs\, The George Washington University\n\nIn the two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states on Russia’s periphery\, USAID has led the effort to help parliaments in these countries become more effective in passing meaningful legislation\, more engaged with citizens\, and more independent of the executive branch. This panel will be a discussion of those efforts\, with both a comparative regional overview and a more focused look at recent work with Kyrgyzstan’s Jogorku Kenesh.\n\nDr. Eric Rudenshiold\, the Senior Officer in Charge for Kyrgyzstan and the Central Asian Republics at USAID\, has been instrumental in the design and implementation of USAID’s work with legislative institutions in Central Asia\, the Caucuses and elsewhere in the region\, and will speak on the challenges and successes in those efforts.   \n\nKregg Halstead is the Chief of Party of USAID’s “Kyrgyzstan Parliamentary StrengtheningProgram” being implemented by DAI\, and has worked on legislative strengthening\, human rights and rule of law programs in the former Soviet Union for almost 20 years.   \n\nDr. Sean Roberts is a noted expert on issues of democracy and governance in Central Asia. Between 1998 and 2006 he spent six years in the region designing and managing USAID programs on democracy\,  civil society and legislative assistance.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/usaid-experience-with-legislative-strengthening-in-the-former-soviet-union/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120525T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120525T110000
DTSTAMP:20260926T071214
CREATED:20200930T162104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193751Z
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SUMMARY:Informal Justice in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
DESCRIPTION:with Azita Ranjbar and Dr. Eric McGlinchey \nWhat role does informal justice play in resolving conflict in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan? Is there an inverse relationship between the use of informal justice mechanisms and properly functioning state institutions?  In Kyrgyzstan\, aksakal courts (courts of elders) are village-level institutions responsible for resolving community-level disputes\, although they are increasingly described as largely obsolete and only used in villages to resolve small disputes. Their authority to resolve cases is gradually diminishing;most aksakal courts surveyed received less than ten cases last year.  In Tajikistan\, informal leaders\,usually imams\, often play a contradictory role: they often act as arbitrators and mitigate conflict within their communities and yet they oversee practices that can violate individual rights and contravene Tajik law\, such as officiating marriages and divorces outside of state institutions. In recent years\, the authority of informal leaders has increased because of the government’s inability to provide much needed social services\, including fair and equal access to justice.\n\nAzita Ranjbar spent a year in Tajikistan as a Fulbright Fellow and two months in Kyrgyzstan interviewing ordinary citizens on the role that informal justice plays in daily life. As an InternationalResearch and Exchanges Board research fellow\, she carried out research on legal and economic challenges facing the families of migrant workers in Tajikistan. She worked as a Senior ProgramSpecialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace\, on rule of law initiatives and peace building programs inAfghanistan and Pakistan. She previously conducted research in Afghanistan as a research assistant withDartmouth College and the Afghan Women Judges Association in Kabul.\n\nEric McGlinchey is an associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University and an associate in the Central Asia Program at The George Washington University. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 2003. He is the author of Chaos\, Violence\, Dynasty Politics andIslam in Central Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/informal-justice-in-kyrgyzstan-and-tajikistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120517T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120517T190000
DTSTAMP:20260926T071214
CREATED:20200930T162125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193738Z
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SUMMARY:Afghanistan's Stability and Regional Security Implications for Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by the Central Asia Program (George Washington University)\, and EUCAM (Europe-Central Asia Monitoring)\,with the support of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program.\n\nAfghanistan’s Stability and Regional Security Implications for Central Asia 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/afghanistans-stability-and-regional-security-implications-for-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120516T173000
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SUMMARY:Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with Sean Roberts\, Associate Professor and Director\, International Development Studies Program\, GWU \nWith the fall of the Soviet Union\, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan\, like many others in the former USSR\, began to resurrect and re-invent traditional cultural practices that had been repressed during the Soviet period as either contrary to socialist atheism or as remnants of a “feudal past.” These traditions included daily practices and rituals based in local communities as well as the informal structure of neighborhood governance that regulates such practices. Since the 1990s\, the importance of these neighborhood structures and practices to Uyghur daily life in Kazakhstan have gradually increased\, and most recently the informal structure of neighborhood governance has even been scaled up to create a Republic-wide organization that represents Uyghur interests to the government of Kazakhstan. This lecture will discuss the evolution of local Uyghur neighborhoods in Kazakhstan over the last twenty years\, focusing on these communities’ roles in both cultural resurrection and political mobilization. \nSean R. Roberts\, PhD is a professor at the Elliott school and the Director of the International Development Studies program. He is a cultural anthropologist who has done extensive fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China\, and worked for USAID in Central Asia on democracy programs. In 1996 he produced a documentary film on the Uyghur people titled\, Waiting for Uighurstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/uyghur-neighborhoods-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,Uyghur Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120417T173000
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SUMMARY:Turkish Religious Movements in the Caucasus and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with\, Bayram Balci\, Visiting Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nIn the 1990s-2000s\, different Islamic movements had the opportunity to develop and spread their ideas throughout the former Soviet Union. They contributed drastically to the religiousrevival in both Caucasus and Central Asia. Among them\, those coming from Turkey were more influential\, especially the Nurcu movement of Fethullah Gülen\, which gathers the disciples of Sait Nursi (1876-1960)\, but also other brotherhoods with pan-Turkish sensibilities. Moreover\, theTurkish state was the first to develop significant educational cooperation with the new post-Soviet republics. Even though it was secular\, it paradoxically supported these new religiousnetworks and used them to its advantage.  The core of this presentation analyzes the extent to which these different Turkish movements have contributed to the formation of new Islamic elites in Azerbaijan\, Uzbekistan\, Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, and Turkmenistan\, and how the newTurkish model may influence Azerbaijan and Central Asia.\nBayram Balci is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is aSenior Researcher at the CERI Science Po in Paris\, France. His research focuses on Turkey andTurkish foreign policy in the Middle East\, Central Asia\, and the Caucasus. He is the founding member of The European Journal of Turkish Studies and recently co-edited China and India inCentral Asia: A New “Great Game”?.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/turkish-religious-movements-in-the-caucasus-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120308T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120308T200000
DTSTAMP:20260926T071214
CREATED:20200930T162013Z
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SUMMARY:Russian Policy Toward Central Asia: Tools for Integration and Arguments for Security Involvement
DESCRIPTION:Alexey Malashenko\, Scholar-in-Residence\, Carnegie Center\, Moscow and Professor\, Moscow State Institute of International Relations\n \nRussia is trying to preserve its influence in Central Asia\, and for a few years has actively promoted integrative strategies in the framework of the Customs Union\, and the Eurasian Union project.  Sofar these structures are dominated mostly by the bilateral Russia-Kazakhstan relationship\, while theother potential partners\, above all Uzbekistan\, have had a skeptical position toward Russia’sinitiatives. Older projects such as the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security TreatyOrganization are viewed in the region as instruments of Russia’s influence. Central Asian governments are weary of these initiatives as they are trying not to be pressured by Moscow. Accordingly\, Moscow does not have a lot of tools at its disposal to influence the domestic and foreign strategies of the Central Asian states. However\, the Russian elites are increasingly concernedabout Central Asia as a zone of potential conflict and about the possible spread of militant Islamicgroups\, using labor migrants as a way of penetrating Russia’s territory.\n\nAlexey Malashenko is Scholar-in-Residence for the Religion\, Society\, and Security Program at theCarnegie Center in Moscow. He has also been a professor at Moscow State Institute of InternationalRelations\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO) since 2000. He has written and co-authored many books on religion in Russia and the near-abroad\, including The IslamicFactor in the Northern Caucasus and The Muslim Community of the CIS.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/russian-policy-toward-central-asia-tools-for-integration-and-arguments-for-security-involvement/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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