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Chechnya and North Caucasus
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Sarah E. Mendelson provided a comment on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (Revised Interim Rule), Combating Trafficking in Persons, on October 16, 2007.
The CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative and the Robert Bosch Stiftung released a new report, 49 Steps To Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus, on September 18, 2007. The report is available in English, Russian, and French.
Sarah E. Mendelson and Martina E. Vandenberg provided comments on the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, Combating Trafficking in Persons, on January 26, 2007 and August 22, 2005.
Human Rights and Security Initiative Launched
January 3, 2007
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Instability has spread beyond Chechnya to other parts of the North Caucasus. The risk of a full-blown war is heightened. Human rights abuses committed by both terrorists and representatives of the Russian government have increased extremism rather than contained it. Yet the international community has done little to address the situation. International attention is needed and this initiative seeks to advance research and practical steps for alleviating the crisis.
For work and information related to the South Caucasus, see the Caucasus Initiative page.
- Public Commentary: Sarah E. Mendelson was quoted in a New York Times article on September 30 titled, "Under Iron Hand of Russia’s Proxy, a Chechen Revival."
- Public Appearance: Sarah E. Mendelson appeared on a March 2, 2007 broadcast of the BBC World News , discussing the recent appointment of Ramzan Kadyrov as Chechnya's new President. The video of the program is available online.
- Public Commentary: Sarah E. Mendelson quoted on NPR's Morning Edition, March 3, 2006, in a story titled "Hamas Leaders Meet with Russian Government" on President Putin's meeting with Hamas' leader and Russia's future role in the Middle East.
- Public Appearance: Sarah E. Mendelson discusses online the school massacre in Beslan and Putin's angered response to terrorism. Washington Post, September 9, 2004. Click here to read the overview of the program.
Event: In October 2006, Sarah E. Mendelson convened a third meeting at the Bosch Foundation during which she and Dr. Theodore P. Gerber shared results of a benchmark survey that CSIS fielded in collaboration with the Levada Analytic Center of 1,200 males, ages 16 to 39 years old in Dagestan, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria. The attendees at this meeting were major donors to the North Caucasus region, including various UN agencies, the European Union, USAID, the World Bank, and senior officials from Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the UK. Reports and presentations from the meeting are also available. ( World Bank Presentation, World Bank Report, USAID Presentation, UN Presentation)
Event: In March 2006, Sarah E. Mendelson hosted a second meeting, also held at the Bosch Foundation, during which several producers of human rights reports from the North Caucasus met with consumers of these reports in order to explore ways in which to improve the impact of human rights monitoring.
Event: In May 2005, Sarah E. Mendelson and Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution jointly organized a unique, high-level meeting with forty practitioners from organizations such as the World Bank, the European Union, the Council of Europe, and various agencies within the United Nations to generate ideas and potential next-steps for the international community on the issue of the North Caucasus. That meeting, made possible with support from the Bosch Foundation, generated dozens of recommendations for the international community including the need for the subsequent meetings and research that CSIS has organized and undertaken. - Publication: "49 Steps to Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus," Sarah E. Mendelson, September 18, 2007, a report of the CSIS Human Rights and Security Initiative and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, available in English, Russian, and French.
- Publication: "Anatomy of Ambivalence: The international community and the human rights abuse in North Caucasus," Sarah E. Mendelson, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 53, no. 6, November/December 2006, pp. 3-15.
- Publication: "The World Fiddles While North Caucasus Simmers," Sarah E. Mendelson co-authored with Fiona Hill, Financial Times, August 29, 2005.
- Publication: "Divided and Confused: Public Opinion on the war in Chechnya 2001-2004," Sarah E. Mendelson co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, March 2005. (Brief Summary)
- Publication: "Les droits de l'homme et la guerre en Tchétchénie (Human rights and the war in Chechnya)," in “La Russie de Poutine (Putin’s Russia)," Sarah E. Mendelson co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, edited by Marie Mendras, Pouvoirs, Paris, n. 112, January 2005, 79-92. (Brief Summary)
- Publication: “Putin’s Policies Fail, So Schoolchildren Suffer,” Sarah E. Mendelson co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, Globe and Mail, September 3, 2004.
- Publication: "Russian Public Opinion on Human Rights and the War in Chechnya,”Sarah E. Mendelson co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4 (October-December 2002), 271-305.
- Publication: “Toward a U.S. Policy on Chechnya”.Sarah E. Mendelson, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Policy Memo 204, November 2001.
- Publication: “Explaining the International Community’s Response to the War in Chechnya,”Sarah E. Mendelson, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Policy Memo, April 2000.
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Research Associate, Human Rights and Security Initiative |
Jessica Scholes
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