КаспИнфо

Каспинфо
август 2001

Название: Объявления на англ. языке
Главные Пункты:
* 7-8 декабря 2001 г. в Эдинбурге, Великобритания, состоится симпозиум <Центральная Азия и Каспийский бассейн: 10 лет свободы>, одной из тем которого станет <Каспий: нефть, трубопроводы и экология>. Программа прилагается. Подробная информация на http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/conferences/cac
* Программа грантов IREX и Фонда Старра на 2001-2002 гг. поддерживает совместные проекты, направленные на исследование актуальных для научных и политических сообществ вопросов в регионе. Описание 5 проектов и их исполнителей, получивших поддержку IREX в рамках программы.
* Форма заявки для участия во 2 Семинаре <Энергетика и окружающая среда>, Будапешт, 26-30 октября 2001 г.
(14.08.2001)

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Объявления на англ. языке
Объявления на англ. языке

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Details of the conference can be found at:
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/conferences/cac
or email m.beechey@ed.ac.uk.

The Edinburgh Symposium:
Central Asia and the Caspian Basin: A Decade Post-Independence
7-8 December 2001

The University of Edinburgh
in association with
Harvard University, USA
CNRS, Paris,
British East-West Centre, UK

Sponsored By:
The British Academy
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Department for International Development

We are pleased to announce the Edinburgh Symposium, Central Asia and
the Caspian Basin: A Decade Post-Independence. The Symposium will be
co-hosted by the Department of Politics and the School of Law on 7-8
December 2001.

The Symposium is held in association with the British East-West
Centre, Harvard University, and the CNRS in Paris. Uniting leading
academics and practitioners in the field - including from the UK,
USA, Europe and Central Asia - the Edinburgh Symposium will be the
largest of its kind held to date in the UK. The Symposium is
sponsored by the British Academy, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and the Department for International Development, UK Government.

Details of the conference can be found at:

http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/conferences/cac

or email m.beechey@ed.ac.uk

The strategic area of Central Asia has undergone a profound
transformation in the first decade of its independence. The
implications of geopolitical change in this new world region, housing
over 300 million inhabitants and substantial natural resources, are
considerable. Occurring as it does ten years after the collapse of
the Soviet Union, the timely Edinburgh Symposium will:

-provide a multidisciplinary assessment of a region of growing political and
economic importance;

-bring together Western and Central Asian researchers - from the UK, USA,
Europe and the five states of Central Asia;

-stimulate a frank exchange between practitioners and leading
academics in the field, in particular between academics, UK
government and representatives of the oil and gas sector.

The Symposium is organised around seven thematic panels, each of
which consists of short presentations, to be followed by roundtable
discussion:

P R O G R A M M E

Friday 7th December, 2001

08.30 - 09.30
Registration and coffee

09.30 - 0945
OPENING ADDRESS

09.45 - 11.00
INTRODUCTIONS
Sally Cummings, University of Edinburgh (Kazakhstan)
Meg Luckins, British East-West Centre (Kyrgyzstan)
Shirin Akiner, SOAS, London (Tajikistan)
Annette Bohr, University of Cambridge (Turkmenistan)
Stuart Horsman, FCO (Uzbekistan)

11.00 - 11.30
Coffee

11.30 - 12.45
POLITICAL and LEGAL REFORM
Sally Cummings, Edinburgh (Authoritarianism)
Shirin Akiner, SOAS (Political Order and Succession)
Scott Newton, SOAS (Legal Reform in Central Asia)
John Anderson, St. Andrews University (Constitutional Reform in Central
Asia)

12.45 - 14.30
Lunch

14.30 - 15.45
ECONOMIC and LEGAL REFORM
Pauline Luong Jones, Yale University (Energy Development Strategies)
Helen Boss, Consultant, (Comparing Economic Reform in Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)
Erzhan Dosmukhametov, Oxford University (Foreign Investment Law
in Central Asia)
Brian Cassidy, Ledingham Chalmers, Solicitors (The Foreign Investment
Regime in Azerbaijan)

15.45 - 16.15
Tea

16.15 - 17.30
LAND REFORM
Malcolm Childress, University of Wisconsin Madison (Agricultural
Restructuring and Performance in Central Asia)
Brian Cassidy, Ledingham Chalmers, Solicitors (The Legal Regulation
of Privatisation in Azerbaijan)
Mr Tolobek Omuraliev, Director, Gosregister(Land registration in
Kyrgyzstan)
Mr Maksatbek Tashbolotov, Director, Kalys Consult (Land market
development in Kyrgystan)

18.00 - 19.00
Conference Reception

19.00 - 22.00
Conference Dinner

Saturday 8th December, 2001

09.15 - 10.45
CIVIL SOCIETY and NATION-BUILDING
Ruth Mandel, University College, London (Civil Society in Central
Asia)
John Schoeberlein, Harvard University (Cultural change)
Pal Kolsto, University of Oslo, Norway (Nation-building and Language
Standardisation in Kazakhstan)
Sergei Gretsky, Tajikistan (Civil Society in Central Asia)

10.45 - 11.15
Coffee

11.15 - 12.45
THE CASPIAN: OIL, PIPELINES and the ENVIRONMENT
John Roberts (Caspian Oil and Gas: how far have we come and where
are we going?)
Alan Boyle, University of Edinburgh (oil/water swaps)
Stuart Horsman, FCO (Environment)
Adnan Amkhan, Energy Charter Secretariat (Energy transit issues)
Peter Riches, Texaco Oil Corporation (Perspectives on political risk for
oil and gas field developments in Central Asia)

12.45 - 14.30
Lunch

14.30 - 15.45
STABILITY and SECURITY in CENTRAL ASIA
Roy Allison, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Central Asian
military reform)
Ravshan Alimov, Director, Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies,
Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan's perceptions of stability and security in Central
Asia)
Anna Zelkina, SOAS, (Islamic Fundamentalism)
Rafis Abazov, Kyrgyzstan (Foreign Policy Making in Central Asia)

15.45 - 16.15
Tea

16.15 - 17.30
GEOPOLITICS of CENTRAL ASIA
Olivier Roy, CNRS, Paris (Islam in Central Asia: How to Assess the
Afghan Influence?)
Talgat Ismagambetov, Kazakhstan (Russia and China)
John Erickson, University of Edinburgh (Geopolitics, Geostrategy and
Geoeconomics in Eurasia)

Details of the conference can be found at:
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/conferences/cac
or email m.beechey@ed.ac.uk.

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IREX Announces the Black and Caspian Sea Collaborative Research Program Grantees
for 2001-2002

The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) is pleased to announce the grantees
of the Black and Caspian Sea Collaborative Research Program for 2001-2002. In an effort
to promote regional understanding and cooperation, this program provides funding to research
projects focusing on issues of practical relevance and current interest to the academic,
corporate, and policy-making communities concerned with the Black and Caspian Sea region.
This region is defined to include: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan,
Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. The collaborative research
program is made possible by support from The Starr Foundation.

Five grants were awarded for 2001-2002; the research project topics, collaborators and
abstracts are listed below.

Grant #1: "Civil Society Development on the Black Sea: Social Involvement in the Republic
of Moldova and Romania"

Dr. Eric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland-College Park, USA
Dr. Gabriel Badescu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dr. Paul E. Sum, University of North Dakota, USA
Mr. Mihai Pisica, PhD candidate, Babes-Bolyai University, Moldova
Mr. Cosmin Marian, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

This project will address the relationship between social and political forms of civil engagement
and the quality of democratic citizenship within the Republic of Moldova and Romania. The
research design speaks to the general discourse on democracy and will make an important
contribution to themes concerning the relationship between civil society and governing
institutions, as well as the relationship among NGOs themselves. The project will also contribute
to a deeper understanding of transitional societies and policy-making options that increase the
lines of democratic representation. This will be the first study on civic engagement in the
Black & Caspian Sea Region that addresses civil society development on both a domestic and
regional level. The project will accommodate the addition of more countries from the area and
serve as a model for regional civil society development studies in the future.

Grant #2: "Gender Issues and Family Violence: Public Awareness and Service to Victims"

Dr. Vamik Volkan, University of Virginia, Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, USA
Dr. Nino Makhashvili, Union Saphari Shelter, Georgia
Dr. Isil Vahip, Ege University- School of Medicine, Turkey
Dr. Nodar Sarjveladze, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Georgia

This project focuses on the issues of gender, family violence, and child abuse that are only
beginning to gain overt recognition. The project will examine the link between ethnic conflict
and increased abuse of women and children, as well as create an informational/statistical
database on these issues, define victim psychological profiles, and raise public awareness.

Grant #3: "Redefining the Contagion Effect: The Political Economy of the Suitcase Trade
Between Turkey and Russia"

Dr. Mine Eder, Bogazici University, Turkey
Dr. Kiren Chaudhry, University of California- Berkeley, USA
Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, State University, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Dr. Ali Carkoglu, Bogazici University, Turkey

This research project explores a variety of hypotheses on the impact of informal trade,
financial crises and the cultural aspects of contemporary globalization. Since informal
trading is a significant part of the economic landscape in the region, this study is particularly
relevant in terms of understanding both the nature of economic interdependence among the
region's countries as well as seeking ways to incorporate this very dynamic sub-sector into the
formal economy.

Grant #4: "De-eutrophication Strategy for the Black and Caspian Seas"

Dr. Felix Stolberg, Kharkov State Municipal Academy, Ukraine
Dr. James Perry, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr. Ahmet Kideys, Institute of Marine Sciences, Turkey
Dr. Rowshan Mahmudov, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan
Mr. Dag Daler, Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA), Sweden
Ms. Elina Rautalahti-Miettinen, GIWA, Sweden
Dr. Olena Borysova, Kharkov State Municipal Academy, Ukraine
Dr. Georgiy Sukhorukov, Ukrainian Research Institute for Ecological Problems, Ukraine
Dr. Valeriy Barannik, Ukrainian Research Institute for Ecological Problems, Ukraine

Eutrophication, the global process of aquatic ecosystem degradation that creates many
difficult problems for surface water usage (including the production of toxins that can lead
to death for animals and severe illnesses for humans), of the Black and Caspian Seas' is one
of the largest environmental problems in the region. This project hopes to determine the existing
level and trend of eutrophication and analyze the main causes for this decay and its impact
on water quality. The project team will also propose a strategy for de-eutrophication of the Seas
to include administrative and legislative measures, an education policy, and technical intervention.

Grant #5: "Comparative Study of Minority Education in Azerbaijan and Iran"

Dr. Val Rust, University of California- Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Hamlet Isaxanli, Khazar University, Azerbaijan
Inna Grudskaya, Center for Education and Info. Studies, Khazar University, Azerbaijan
Dr. Mohammad, Hariri-Akbari, Tabriz University, Iran
Dr. Golnar Mehran, Al-Zahra University, Iran

This project seeks to analyze educational policies and practices in Azerbaijan and Iran
regarding minority groups by investigating national policies on language instruction, curriculum,
and textbooks. Recent political developments in both countries have led to a focus on
nationalism and cultural homogenization, and this project hopes to determine the degree to
which minority cultures have been cultivated and appreciated in these educational systems.

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APPLICATION FORM

Seminar on Energy and Environment (SEE 2)
Hungary, October 26-30, 2001.

Name:
Age and Gender: (Male or female)
Country:
Do you need Visa for entering Hungary? (yes or no)
Address:
Home telephone:
Work or other telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Name of NGO:
NGO's address:
NGO tel./fax:
NGO e-mail:

Special dietary requests
Normal:
Vegetarian:
Vegan:

Please indicate your level of English (underline):
High Medium Fair Low

Please check the cost of a round trip from home to Budapest:
(In USD)
Note the cheapest possible (we prefer train travel), also please indicate if you are able to
cover your own travel or at least part of it!

1. Describe in more detail a current or recent project about which you could share information
and experience at the Energy and Environment seminar.

2. How did you learn about the SEE?

3. What do you plan after the seminar? Would you be interested in passing on the information
received here? What would be the best approach to do so?

4. Who else from your country might be interested in participating in this or future SEE seminars?
Please include affiliation and contact details. (send the application right away to them)

5. Why are you interested in participating in SEE2? What are you expectations?

6. List 2-3 references (colleagues, teachers, but preferably from the NGO movement - name,
address, email, telephone, )

Please return by 3rd of September,2001 to the following address:

Robert Hodosi
E-mail:rhodosi@energiaklub.hu

Energy Club Telephone: +36-1-209-7223
P.O.Box. 411. Fax: +36-1-4668866
Budapest, 1519.
Hungary

Application form must be filled out in English!

Other papers we require:

1. Please send or attach your CV describing work related to environment and energy!

2. Brief description of the activities projects of your NGO! (approx. 1 page)

We prefer electronic applications, if possible. Unfortunately, applications arriving after the
deadline will not be accepted.