2011 Archives - Page 13 of 124

Data on access to justice in Central Asia now available

25 March, 2011

Last month we published a blog post with findings from CRRC’s first research project in Central Asia. An extensive analytical report, datasets and frequency tables are now available on the CRRC website. The research focused on how citizens in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan…

Ask CRRC | Sampling Weights I

25 March, 2011

Q: In the posting on representativeness, you said that every member of the population must have some chance of being selected for the sample. In the next posting about sample size, your Rustavi example had every member of the population…

Conference Summary | "Building Turkish Awareness of Armenian Genocide"

24 March, 2011

By Ben Bronstein On March 15th 2011, the ‘Yerkir’ Union and the Caucasus Institute held an international conference on Building Awareness of Turkish Society Regarding the Armenian Genocide. Speakers included Armenian experts as well as Cengiz Aktar and Ali Bayramoğlu, two Turkish…

E-transparency in Georgia: A key to faith in democracy?

23 March, 2011

Can more available public information on Georgian governmental websites promote institutional trust and enhance faith in democracy in Georgia? This is the topic of a recent book called “Electronic Transparency in Georgia” by the Institute for Freedom of Information (IDFI).…

Transparency International Georgia launches platform to fix your street

22 March, 2011

According to a poll CRRC conducted for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), 38% of the Georgian population says roads is the most important local issue for them. Sewage, streetlights and trash collection are other issues that the population finds important.…

Georgians on Abkhazia: What Is to Be Done?

21 March, 2011

By Sonya Kleshik One of the previous CRRC blogs discussed some results from CRRC’s recent survey called “IDPs in Georgia” which gauged the opinions and attitudes of IDPs displaced from Abkhazia during the 1992-1993 conflict towards return, conflict resolution…

Spreading the News: File Sharing through Mobile Phones in Armenia

19 March, 2011

How do multimedia phones affect the way media is consumed and circulated? Katy Pearce lays out interesting findings for the case of Armenia in the International Journal of Communication (5, 2011, pp. 511-528).

IDPs in Georgia – Attitudes towards return, conflict resolution and justice

17 March, 2011

Under which conditions would IDPs be willing to return to Abkhazia? Should past injustices be addressed or left alone? What do IDPs consider the main reasons for the outbreak of the war in the early 1990s? The research project “IDPs…