https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/229 2025-11-09T03:48:22Z 2025-11-09T03:48:22Z Kerimalieva, Raushan https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/411 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Culture, Gender and Human Rights: The Impact of Cultural Family Values on Legal Capabilities of Women in Kyrgyzstan Authors: Kerimalieva, Raushan Abstract: Women in Kyrgyzstan are often limited in their ability to exercise their economic, political, cultural and social rights despite the existing legal guarantees. Moreover, every second female here is a subject to some type of abuse or discrimination. However, most of the time, it is not the political will or the law that is in the root of the problem, but certain cultural family values that are implanted in and reinforced by the society. The values instilled often restrain and control the scope of women’s activities within their households; females considered to be responsible for a durable and peaceful marriage, enduring the consequences of a divorce and violence at home. Thus, women not only silently accept violence, but often support it as most of the members of the society. Hence, they play a paradoxical role: they are oppressed by the culture, but at the same time, they reinforce and support it. Meanwhile the state institutions, designed to protect are unable to confront its own stereotypical attitudes towards women and their role in a family. The current thesis illustrates how gendered dimension of human rights is being confronted by cultural family values and practices. It aims to show the individual, societal and institutional attitudes behind the gendered violence and their impact on legal capabilities of women in the country. Seventeen semi-structured interviews with victimized women, public officials and experts on the topic will test the following assumptions: women resist exercising their rights because: (1) women themselves fall victims of certain cultural values and practices, (2) of societal pressure and fear of stigmatization, (3) of institutional impotency to confront androcentric attitudes among state employees. Domestic violence, bride kidnapping and male polygamy are used as exemplifying cases to build the theory.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Kalmurzaeva, Elvira https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/410 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan’s National Ideological Projects: Expectations of Society in the Case of School Teachers Authors: Kalmurzaeva, Elvira Abstract: Collapse of the USSR created new countries, which strived to build own national identity, different from previous one. Kyrgyzstan, as one of the successor states, is also undergoing nationalization process. This paper analyses how national ideological projects were constructed by political elite, namely by presidents and how this ideological discourse is being interpreted by society, represented in my research by secondary school teachers. The research gives new insights on the consequences of controversial ideological discourse. It analyses the main trends of nationalization process during Akayev, Bakiev and Atambaev periods. Through comparative analysis of all three presidential projects it identifies similarities and differences. Significant part of this work is based upon a survey among 90 school teachers. Findings of this survey display how official discourse is transmitted to young citizens and the whole society.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Shakibi, Ahmad Zafar https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/409 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: What are Afghanistan’s Policy Options Given the Ranges of Future Scenarios for Iran’s Nuclear Weapon Program? Authors: Shakibi, Ahmad Zafar Abstract: Afghanistan, a nascent democracy has been locked among theocratic fundamentalist, military dictator and authoritarians in a war for its existence. Afghanistan already shares border with two nuclear powers and lies within the range of hundreds of different types of ballistic missiles in a region where Shiite revolutionary extremism from west Sunni Deobandi and Salafi radicalism from southeast are exporting in the country directly since 1979. Afghanistan is in agonizing pain of a slow rather fatal undeclared eroding war which has imposed on it by its neighbors and Regional powers. The Soviet military rampage, civil war and war on terrorism has crippled the country to an extend that pushed it unto the threshold of a failed state and turned it into a hub of a totalitarian apocalyptic regime. Today, Afghanistan suffers from many political stalemates and economic crisis, with high rate of domestic unemployment, corruption and a relentless terrorism inspired insurgency that emanates beyond its borders. Now, Afghanistan as a nation that survived over 700 massive military interventions since last 7,000 years is clanging to death with little chance of survivability. Afghanistan is confronting existential threats from its neighbors who sponsors international terrorism, resilient insurgencies and who acquired nuclear weapons or are about to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The sole purpose of this thesis is to scrutinize Iranian nuclear weapon program, its possible military dimensions and its implications for Afghanistan’s national security in the aftermath of an Iranian chain reaction and what Afghanistan could do to keep its independence and realize its national interests peacefully. To this end, the current, thesis analyzed Iran’s nuclear ambitions, its capabilities, and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and its implication to Afghanistan’s national security. The research findings are based upon the Iran’s past, present foreign policy behavior. It further demonstrates how possibly an Iranian nuclear weapon can affect Afghanistan’s security, economic and national interests through fact-based and realistic scenarios.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Abilgaziyev, Yermek https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/270 2021-03-30T12:13:53Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Perception of Turkic Integration by the Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Authors: Abilgaziyev, Yermek Abstract: This thesis presents perception of Turkic Integration by the representatives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the current stage and its correlation with Kazakhstan’s decision and activities held towards Turkic Integration. The thesis conceptually assumes that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan is the main body of building foreign policy of the country and it is important that this study researches the overall perception of Turkic Integration among the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. The study applies a cognitive dimension theoretical framework in order to provide the understanding of perception of governmental officials by using the qualitative method of in-depth interviews with the representatives of the MFA of Kazakhstan and later conducting the analysis of the results of interviews. The findings of this reflective and interpretive process are enhanced by using historical approach where the researcher used data based on the academic works of other authors, academic journals, and organization reports and independently analyzed primary data such as speeches of the politicians, the presidents and the texts of the law as the Concept of foreign policy of Kazakhstan. Therefore the set objective of the work was to produce information on the perception of government officials, which was mainly positive as well as their assumptions about such events as the establishments of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries, the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States and International Turkic Academy and study shed light on Kazakhstan’s policy and strategy towards Turkic Integration that was found as an effective alternative in the existing multi-vector foreign policy that needs special further research .

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