Field Reports
CIPDD - SUPPORTING THE CAUCASIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
By Paata Gurgenidze, Project coordinator, Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Caucasus Through Support (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) was founded in 1992 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization involved in research, publishing, organizing conferences, and other kinds of activities. Its main objectives are to promote democratic and free-market values, foster better understanding between the peoples of the Caucasus, and encourage non-partisan theoretical analysis of problems related to the post-communist transition in the Caucasus region. Currently, CIPDD publishes the South Caucasian Human Rights Monitor and a monthly bulletin in English called Army and Society in Georgia.
STUDY OF NATIONALITIES WORLD CONVENTION
By Bea Hogan, freelance journalist (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 600 experts and scholars gathered last weekend in New York to attend the Fifth Annual Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, a three-day event hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and featuring 100 panels on national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflicts, and state building in the former Soviet republics. Since the 1970s, Columbia University’s Harriman Institute has included nationality and minority issues in its curriculum.
The panels covered a wide region – from Central Asia and the Caucasus region to Central and Eastern Europe -- and took various approaches to the material, from region-specific to historical and thematic.
NEW YORK HOSTS SUMMER-LONG MONGOLIAN FESTIVAL
By Bea Hogan, former Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan, recent graduate of the School of Internationa (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Mongolians have taken New York City by storm. The Festival of Mongolia kicked off the weekend of May 19th and will officially run through July, with some exhibits open until late fall. Two years in the planning, the festival aims to cast a place and people best known for their fearless 13th-century ruler Genghis Khan in a warmer, friendlier light.
KYRGYZSTAN ADOPTS RUSSIAN AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
By Maria Utyaganova, student in the International Relations Department, American University in Kyrgyzst (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On May 26 the parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic reached the rapid and nearly unanimous decision to make the Russian language one of two official languages of the country. On May 29, President Askar Akaev signed legislation into law. The move was primarily an attempt to stem the increasing out-migration of Kyrgyzstan’s Russian-speaking population to Russia.
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Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.