MINELRES: New LGI MMCP - EAWARN publication: Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in CIS

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LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project is pleased to announce its
new publication:

Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS)
by Valery Tishkov and Elena Filippova
330 pages
ISBN: 963 9419 38 9

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Please, direct your orders to LGIpublications@osi.hu
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The majority of countries in Central and Eastern Europe are multiethnic
societies. Decentralization and the transition to a free market
environment have made this characteristic of nation-states more visible.
This has raised the claim for a proactive approach toward multi-ethnic
community management. The first step in those countries that plan to
solve ethnic conflicts in a peaceful way is to draft legislation on
individual and collective minority rights. The second stage of
development is to implement these general rules and to manage the public
sector in accordance with the accepted principles of such an agreement.

Since 1990, a number of countries have made provisions to enact minority
rights within the sphere of local administrative units. Many local
authorities now have the devolved responsibility of implementing
policies that conform to international minority rights standards.
However, these provisions are often poorly implemented due to inadequate
resources, insufficient technical expertise and a lack of political will
at all levels of public administration.

There is an urgent need to develop methods to overcome these barriers
and to support local government capacity-building and multi-disciplinary
training related to the governance of multiethnic communities, as well
as to provide local governments and public administration with the
technical support to design and implement multicultural policies that
meet the needs of diverse communities.

Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the CIS is the fourth
volume of the MMCP book series. It is the result is of cooperation
between LGI and the Moscow-based Early Warning Monitoring Network
(EAWARN). Selected case studies cover a wide range of local policies and
practices of accommodation of ethnic diversity in post-Soviet countries.
Case studies from various regions of former Soviet Union provide
policy-makers, professionals, researchers and development organizations
with an overview of various local policy issues to be addressed.

MMCP books are available for capacity-building training programs for
public officials in the region.

CONTENTS

Introduction to the Series ix

Acknowledgements xiii

List of Contributors xv

List of Tables and Figures xix

INTRODUCTION

Valery Tishkov
Challenges for Minority Governance on the Threshold of the Twenty-first
Century xxi

PART ONE:THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1

Valery Tishkov
Local Self-Government versus Local State Administration:
Russia 's Hybrid Experience 3

Enver Kisriyev
Homegrown Solution: Dagestan Innovates to Address Ethnic Diversity 21

Larisa Khopyorskaya
Lessons Learned from Addressing Tensions Caused by Ethnic Migration in
Rostov 39

Alexander Dzadziyev and Ruslan Dzidzoyev
Are Minorities Left Out?State Powers and Local Self-Government in North
Ossetia 63

Rafik Abdrakhmanov
Local Self-Government in the Republic of Tatarstan 91

Ildar Gabdrafikov and Aidar Enikeev
Old Elite and Soviet-style System in New Bashkortostan Stifle
Representative Democracy 113

Vasily Filippov and Elena Filippova
Ethnic Groups Dispersed in a Metropolitan Megalopolis 143

Vladimir Sharov
Compromise and Innovation Help Mari El Address Ethnic and Local
Government Issues 173

Tatyana Polyakova
Adygea Relies on Old Traditions to Build New Self-Governments 191

PART TWO: CIS COUNTRIES OUTSIDE RUSSIA

Valery Tishkov
Local Self-Government in the Newly Independent States 203

Tatyana Senyushkina
Turbulent Past Complicates Crimea 's Minority Relations 207

Muzaffar Olimov and Saodat Olimova
Ethnic Factors and Local Self-Government in Tajikistan 235

Igor Savin
Titular Population Has the Edge in Kazakhstan 263

Nurbek Omuraliyev
Kyrgyzstan 's Innovative Solutions to Ethnic Relations Are Insufficient
297

PART THREE
Index 323