The perception that the global rise of Islamic activism is nurtured by a phenomenon depicted as “Global Jihad” is contested in a recent PhD dissertation titled “Islamic Activism in Azerbaijan: Repression and Mobilization in a Post-Soviet Context”. Dr…
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A colleague of ours recently went to Washington D.C for a presentation by WorldPublicOpinion.org, an international network of research centers studying public opinion. Here is what she reported:
I attended an event on the release of a new .worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/591.php?nid=&id=&pnt=591&l……
Have banking and financial services penetrated most households in the South Caucasus? Due to the topicality of finance news, an investigation on the usage of banking and financial services in the Caucasus seems justified. As banks fall, get nationalized and…
The EBRD Life in Transition Survey, as we at the CRRC blog previously mentioned, is available for download. The survey, measuring attitudes and values amongst 28 transitional countries divided in to three sub-regions, is one of th…
The UN Study on Violence against Children, presented in the UN General Assembly in October 2006, has been followed up with an individual country report on School Violence in Georgia. The cross-regional study has a sampling plan including over 1300…
CRRC is happy to announce the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program (CRFP). The program offers exceptional research opportunities in the United States for scholars from the South Caucasus.
Specifically, scholars in the social sciences and the humanities may apply for individual,…
The document represents qualitative research on migrants and their communities in Georgia.
The survey report and focus group report examine the rule of law in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
