The Bosch Series: October 2006

Sarah Mendelson convened a meeting at the Bosch Foundation at which she and Ted Gerber shared the results of a benchmark survey of 1,200 males, ages 16 to 39 years old, in Dagestan, North Ossetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, fielded by CSIS in collaboration with the Levada Analytical Center (see Cauldron of Terrorism or Bowl of Kasha? for their findings).  Major donors to the North Caucasus region attended the meeting including UN agencies, the European Union, USAID, the World Bank, and senior officials from Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.  Reports and presentations from the meeting are also available from the following: World Bank (report, pdf.; presentation, pdf.), USAID (presentation, pdf.), and the UN (presentation, pdf.).