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OSI CEP Occasional Papers - 22.01.2025
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant-making foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic
governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. OSI
was created in 1993 by investor and philanthropist George Soros to
support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros
foundations network to other areas of the world where the transition
to democracy is of particular concern. Active in more than 70
countries, the Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and
tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their
citizens. Working with local communities, the Open Society Institute
supports justice and human rights, freedom of expression and access
to public health and education.
The Central Eurasia Project (CEP) is one of OSI's regional
initiatives. CEP's mission is to promote social progress and human
rights in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In doing so, CEP
coordinates closely with the Soros Foundations in Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
CEP also manages OSI's activities related to those closed society
countries in the region without national foundations, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan. The programmatic areas of CEP include human rights,
labor migration, electricity and hydropower governance, and social
and economic policy. The instruments of CEP's work to pursue its
mission are research and advocacy, public information, and targeted
grants.
Occasional Paper Series
CEP is looking for authors who are interested in contributing to
CEP's Occasional Papers. The Occasional Papers is a new series of
well written papers that will explore under-researched issues and
trends that are important for OSI's efforts to build vibrant and
tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their
citizens in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. As such, they will
inform OSI's programmatic approaches in the region, but will also
serve to introduce these issues into the discussion of the wider
community of policy makers, analysts, academics, practitioners and
others who take an interest in that work on Central Asia and the
Caucasus.
Long-term challenges to the development of open societies in Central
Asia and the Southern Caucasus remain insufficiently discussed in the
West. While there are a few outlets for high-policy related
discussions or mediums that address academic questions whose
practical value is limited, there is a need for a paper series that
identifies challenges to open society and its supporters in Central
Asia and the Caucasus, discusses potential approaches to achieve
solutions, and opens these issues to the informed public for debate.
While the Occasional Papers will primarily serve an OSI audience,
they will also be distributed widely to the interested NGO, academic,
policy-making and professional community except in special cases.
CEP is looking for contributors who are interested in authoring a
paper of about 25 - 30 pages. Applications are welcome from
individuals from a variety of backgrounds including researchers,
practitioners, policy makers, and PhD students from the former Soviet
Union, U.S. and Europe. CEP is especially interested in papers that
would cover the following topics:
* Freedom of religion in Central Asia and the South Caucasus:
Issues and Implications
* Understanding Islamic civil society in Central Asia
* China's role in Central Asia
* CASAREM challenges for Central Asia: Transparency,
accountability and domestic energy security
* Public utilities (gas, water, electricity) issues in
Central Asia and the South Caucasus
* The War on Terror in Central Asia: Ramifications for Human
Rights, Societies and States
* Minority rights in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
* Civil societies role in legal remedies for environmental
issues in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
* Implications of information and communication technologies
for democratic governance and practice
* Cotton monoculture and agricultural reform in Uzbekistan
and Tajikistan
Proposals for papers on other topics related to open society values
in Central Asia and the South Caucasus are also welcome.
Interested authors should apply by sending in a complete application
package consisting of:
* Expose of the paper no longer than three pages,
* Remuneration requirement,
* CV,
* Writing samples
in English by email to ceppapers@sorosny.org. Applications are
accepted on a rolling basis and will be reviewed by an expert
committee. Successful proposals should be finalized into full papers
within two months; drafts will be peer reviewed before the final
drafts are published. A limited amount of travel money is available
for selected papers that require field research.
Please also see http://www.soros.org/initiatives/cep/news/cep-
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Cornelius Graubner
Program Officer
Central Eurasia Project
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th St.
New York, NY 10019
T: +1 212 506 0008
F: +1 212 548 4651
www.soros.org/initiatives/cep
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