The State of Civil Society in Central Asia: Kazakhstan

The Central Asia Program (CAP) at George Washington University promotes high-quality academic research on contemporary Central Asia, and serves as an interface for the policy, academic, diplomatic, and business communities. The Central Asia Program focuses on the wider Central Asian space, which includes the five post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Xinjiang, Mongolia, as well as the Volga-Ural region, Kashmir, and Balochistan. Recognizing the increasing importance of Central Asia in the 21st century, the Central Asia Program is a dynamic initiative that seeks to be at the forefront of the debate on the region.

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The George Washington University Central Asia Program invites you to the first of four seminars in our Civil Society in Central Asia series. These sessions will be led by Central Asia civil society experts with a goal of not only informing their audiences of current developments in Central Asia, but also hosting a discussion about potential courses of action for Central Asian civil society.We will be joined by experts Colin Knox, Dauren Aben and Maksym Sytnikov who will speak about the civil society landscape in Kazakhstan. The session will address broader developmental trends and civil society challenges in Kazakhstan, recent developments and legislative changes and Kazakhstani civil society’s expectations of Western supporters. A Q&amp;A session will follow the panelist presentations. Panelist presentations will be made in English and simultaneous translation into Russian will be available.*Simultaneous interpreting in Russian will be available for this event. To access the Russian translation, click a globe sign in your respective toolbar once you receive a notification from the host that the interpretation is available.Программа Университета Джорджа Вашингтона по Центральной Азии приглашает вас на первый из четырех семинаров нашей серии «Гражданское общество в Центральной Азии». Семинары будут проводиться экспертами гражданского общества по региону с целью не только информировать аудиторию о текущих событиях в Центральной Азии, но и провести обсуждение возможных направлений и действий для гражданского общества в данном регионе.К нам присоединятся эксперты Колин Нокс, Даурен Абен и Максим Сытников, которые расскажут о состоянии гражданского общества в Казахстане. На этом семинаре будут рассмотрены тенденции развития и проблемы гражданского общества в Казахстане, последние события и законодательные изменения, а также ожидания гражданского общества Казахстана в отношении западных сторонников. После своих презентаций, участники ответят на вопросы аудитории. Презентации и дискуссии будут проводиться на английском языке с синхронным переводом на русский язык.*На мероприятии будет доступен синхронный перевод на русский язык. После уведомления от модератора о начале перевода, вы можете подключиться к русскому переводу, нажав на иконку в виде земного шара на соответствующей панели инструментов.WELCOMING REMARKS​Sebastien Peyrouse, Research Professor, Central Asia Program, IERES, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington UniversitySebastien Peyrouse, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, economic and social issues, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China, India and South Asia. Lisa Coll, President, Eurasia Foundation Lisa Coll is president of Eurasia Foundation. Prior to this role, she was vice president of EF’s Washington, DC office, where she was responsible for overseeing EF&#x27;s program portfolio and helping EF achieve its strategic goals. She has over 20 years of international development experience in the democracy and governance sector. Since 2001, Coll has played a key role at Eurasia Foundation, including guiding the localization of EF’s regional offices between 2004 and 2010 and spearheading the development of the Capacity Mapping Assessment tool, an organizational assessment method custom-built for EF’s partner foundations. She sits on the board of Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia. From 1999-2001, Coll served as EF’s Central Asia director, based in Tashkent, overseeing a small grants program in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.PANELISTSColin Knox, Professor &amp; Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Nazarbayev UniversityColin Knox is a Professor and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Public Policy at Ulster University in the UK. His research interests include: public sector reform (local and international); local government; and, the evaluation of public policy. He has worked on public sector reform in many developing countries including: Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, China, Georgia, Russia, and Latvia. Knox is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Higher Teaching Academy (FHEA).​Dauren Aben, Senior Research Fellow, Eurasian Research Institute, International Kazakh-Turkish UniversityDauren Aben is an independent researcher based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He previously worked at the Eurasian Research Institute, Nazarbayev University, and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies. A graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Dauren also headed the Almaty office of the Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.Maksym Sytnikov, Advocacy Officer and Analyst, Open Dialogue FoundationMaksym Sytnikov is a political scientist and graduate of the University of Warsaw. He is a member of the human rights monitoring mission of the Italian Federation for Human Rights in Kazakhstan. Sytnikoy has worked at the Open Dialogue Foundation since 2018. Maksym Sytnikov is also one of coordinators of a global campaign #regimeservants, which advocates for personal sanctions against perpetrators of human rights violations in Kazakhstan.Feature Photo Credit: Simon Sun at Unsplash

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