https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/15 2025-11-09T19:38:15Z 2025-11-09T19:38:15Z Abdisalam Uulu, Zhumabai https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/156 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Perspectives of Agrarian Sector on Kyrgyzstan’s Membership in the EEU Authors: Abdisalam Uulu, Zhumabai Abstract: Eurasian Economic Union is a culmination of integrational efforts, started after the dissolution of USSR. It started functioning in January 2015 with acceptance of Armenia and in August 2015 Kyrgyzstan become a member of EEU. The main goal of the Union is to create a common market without internal barriers. The authorities of Kyrgyz Republic promoted the membership in EEU and a way to provide food security and develop agricultural sector where more than 600 thousand people were employed and citizens of Kyrgyzstan welcomed that membership in EEU. Development of the agrarian sector via membership was one of the priorities of the Kyrgyz government. This thesis provides an analysis on the perspectives of the agrarian sector within the EEU with current realities. Moreover, the thesis aims to identify the attitudes of people employed in the agrarian sector toward the membership in EEU. Field research with interview of businessmen and peasants were conducted to identify what was the changes after the entrance to the Union. Moreover, survey was conducted to demonstrate the attitudes of the peasant and people employed in the agrarian sector towards the memberships in EEU. The study results show that there were no major changes in agrarian sector after the introduction of common tariffs with member states and that attitudes of people towards the membership still remain positive. My study of the subjects contributes to the existing debate on structural relationship between Kyrgyzstan and other EEU member states by exploring sectoral changes of the economy and attitudes of people employed in this sector.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Raoufi, Tahmina https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/155 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Game of Thrones: Gender and Power Authors: Raoufi, Tahmina Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyze whether and how power as a concept in the context of Game of Thrones is gendered and whether the show has reinforced or reproduced or challenged gender stereotypes among the young Game of Thrones watchers in Kyrgyzstan. To do this, this thesis conducts fifteen in-depth interviews of young Kyrgyz viewers of the show, in addition to determining opinions of scholars on power, gender and role of media on those. Analyzing the fifteen in-depth interviews and scholar’s opinion, this thesis determined that power is not gender neutral in game of thrones. Power in the context of Game of Thrones is violence. Finally, it determined that Game of Thrones reinforces gender stereotypes among young viewers of the show in Kyrgyzstan.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Shonasimov, Shafqat https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/154 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Political History of Tajikistan’s Autonomous Mountainous Badakhshan Region Authors: Shonasimov, Shafqat Abstract: The aim of this research is to examine the political history of the Mountainous Badakhshon Autonomous Veloyat (MBAV) of Tajikistan. Chronologically, research is divided into two periods. The first one covers the so-called colonial period (1880s1917) and the Soviet period (1917-1991). During this time, the region started to get its current geo-political shape, first within the Russian Empire, and later it became an autonomous province as part of the Soviet Union. The second part of the thesis is on the political history of MBAV as autonomous veloyat (province) of the independent Tajikistan (1991-present). The MBAV is the only autonomous province in Tajikistan, recognizing its distinct Pamiri inhabitants and reflecting its geographical isolation from the central government in Dushanbe. Following the Soviet collapse and during the Tajik civil war, especially in 1992, calls for MBAV's independence heightened. During the postwar period, especially in 2009-2012 and even in 2018 political processes in MBAV have been complex and its relations with central government remains controversial and even tense. The political history of MBAV is, mostly, about Pamirian elite’s effort to collectively safeguard and secure the survival of a unique Pamirian ethnoconfessional and cultural identity. This thesis particularly, studies the issue of political implications of the self-identification sentiments amongst the people of MBAV and their collective resistance to central government’s violent efforts to take the province under its full control via frightening the Pamiri population.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Anosh, Sayed Hussain https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/153 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Conundrum of Promoting Liberal Human Rights Norms in Traditional Islamic Societies: The Case of Afghanistan Authors: Anosh, Sayed Hussain Abstract: This Thesis intends to find an understanding of the large gap between international human rights standards and the ground reality in Afghanistan. Among the key factors blamed for this human rights gap are the differences between international human rights standards and Afghan/Islamic values. The second assumption was that human rights are both profit motive and the Western countries political agenda which has negatively affected the human rights in Afghanistan, while the last assumption argued that an unending conflict (1979-2018) in Afghanistan has made human rights implementation very difficult or even impossible. The main findings of this Thesis are that the use of Islam as the main source for legal documents has taken the opportunity from international human rights to find its place for becoming part and parcel of indigenous values in society. Not only has international human rights law not having been taken seriously but the national laws are also not followed. Very little part of information supports the compatibility of Afghan laws with international human rights law but the majority of the interlocutors interviewed (N=11) agreed that human rights are the Western product which will contradict the Afghan and Islamic culture. The donors and major proponents of human rights (INGOs and NGOs) also have used implementation of human rights for promoting their political agenda and as an instrument to reach their own goals. For many human rights implementors, the sector has become a source of good income. The unfulfilled promises of human rights institutions have created an illusionary expectation among the public. Without any doubt, everything has been affected by war but there is a direct relation between conflict and human rights violation as one increases, the other follows. The study can be used by Government and human rights implementors to avoid past mistakes and bring serious reforms in their implementation.

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