EAWARN projects
Promotion of Tolerance and Improving Interethnic Relations in Russia
On December 1, 2002, the Promotion of Tolerance and Improving Interethnic Relations Project was launched in Russia. It is financed by the European Union as part of its TACIS program. The project will run until December 30, 2004. EAWARN is the beneficiary and the Russian partner in the project. One of the main goals of the project is aiding EAWARN’s organizational and professional improvement. More...
Nationality and Language in the All-Russian Census of 2002
Since 2001, The Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning (EAWARN) has taken part in the scientific research project on Nationality and Language in the All-Russian Census of 2002. The project is carried out by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEA RAS, Moscow) in cooperation with Brown University (USA, Providence) and a group of French scientists.
This research, carried out by anthropologists, ethnologists, demographers, political scientists, sociologists and statisticians, aims to examine the mechanisms of construction and registration of ethnic and language categories and events in the conducting of census. The issues of identity and the cultural and language situation are the most complicated and frequently discussed during all censuses, in and out of Russia. The research focuses on these issues. More...
Monitoring of ethnicity, conflicts et cohesion
In 1996-2002, the Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning (EAWARN) participated in the UNESCO-sponsored project titled Monitoring of ethnicity, conflict and cohesion. The goal of the project was to study correlations between the phenomena of ethnicity, conflicts, and state building in the period of social and political transformations on the post-Soviet countries. This was supposed to help in the creation of a model of ethno-confessional monitoring of multi-cultural societies.
Over the course of these years, the experts conducted multi-parameter examinations of ethnic processes, contradictions and conflicts in the states of the former Soviet Union. The project consisted of three stages and included numerous sub-projects. More...Democratic Government in Multiethnic Communities in the CIS Countries
From June 1, 2000 to June 1, 2001, EAWARN worked on a project titled Democratic Government in Multiethnic Communities in the CIS Countries. The project was realized within the framework of the (Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative — LGI), a program of the Open Society Institute (USA) (Open Society Institute — OSI). The project was financed by the Open Society Institute and coordinated by its East European branch with headquarters in Budapest.
The project examined the local self-government systems in multiethnic CIS countries.
Its goal was to study specific conditions and the process of the local government reform with the point of optimizing the system by the local communities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and the Ukraine.
While studying the Russian local government system, we looked at nine regions of the Russian Federation. More...