Anyone struggling for an Uzbek interpreter should contact Nafisa O’Brien on +44 7974 257 859.
Bill Bowring
Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk
Prof Bowring has experience in Uzbekistan dating back to the 1990s when he first travelled to the country to undertake training of advocates in international human rights standards on behalf of the OSCE. In 2000, he devised and implemented intensive training of advocates, prosecutors and judges on the implications of Uzbekistan’s ratification of the UN ICCPR. Prof Bowring was invited by the British Embassy in January 2014 to participate in an international conference in Uzbekistan on reforms in the judicial system. Prof Bowring has close connections with various interlocutors to ensure he is constantly up to date with the situation on the ground. Please see the following link for a full breakdown of Prof Bowring’s work in Uzbekistan. Bill Bowring Experience in Uzbekistan.docx
Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer
Email: beyer.judith@gmail.com
Judith Beyer is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She specializes in legal anthropology and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and Southeast Asia (Myanmar). Her research focuses on the anthropology of law, the anthropology of the state and statelessness, and theories of sociality and social order.
Marjorie Farquharson
Email: mmf@blueyonder.co.uk
Marjorie Farquharson has worked in the field of human rights and the USSR and post-Soviet states for 30 years. She has given her expert opinion on 43 cases involving asylum seekers to the UK. She has been a freelance researcher, writer and translator since 2001 and has worked in all five Central Asian States. She has done numerous research projects for UNDP, UNHCR and Amnesty International as well as independent research on Central Asian states. She was Amnesty International’s first representative in the Soviet bloc from 1994-1996 as the Director of the EU Tacis project. As a Council of Europe officer she has worked in 44 of Russia’s federal regions and helped establish a regional ombudsman institution there. She is the author of several publications on Central Asia. She is capable of giving her expertise on all Central Asian states, namely, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Marjorie is not able to provide her services pro bono, however, she is willing to negotiate a fee.
Professor Nazif Shahrani
Email: shahrani@indiana.edu
M Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, has served two terms as Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at IU. Shahrani is an Afghan-American anthropologist with extensive field research in Afghanistan, and has studied Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan & Turkey. Since 1992 he has also conducted field research in post-Soviet Muslim republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. He is interested in the impact of Islam on social life, institutional dynamics and political culture of Muslims, problems of state-failure, role of nationalism in social fragmentation in multi-ethnic nation-states, and the political economy of international assistance to postcolonial failing states and its consequences. He grew-up bilingual in Uzbek & Tajik/Dari/Farsi, learned Pashtu, Kyrgyz, English and some Arabic.
Dr. Ganiev Shukhrat
Email: shukhrat9@gmail.com
Dr. Shukhrat Ganiev is the coordinator of the Central Asian network for the protection of human rights defenders and Director of the HUMANITARIAN LEGAL CENTER in Uzbekistan. He specializes in developing strategies of preventing social and ethnic conflicts and in analysing situations of migrant workers and illegal traffic of women and children. He can write about the violations of the rights of ethnic minorities in Uzbekistan, the rights of vulnerable groups- women and children from Uzbekistan in Russian and Kazakhstan.
Natalya Stepanova-Sipper, LL.M
Email: sipper@consolidated.net
Natalya Stepanova-Sipper is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law since January 2001, where she teaches, inter alia, Introduction to Russian and Uzbek Legal Systems (major topics: civil, commercial, constitutional, criminal and human rights laws). She is also the owner of the Stepanova-Sipper’s Central Asian Consulting since 1999.
For more than 25 years, Mrs. Stepanova-Sipper has advised on and given formal legal opinions with respect to aspects of Uzbek laws before Uzbek and American courts, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Department of Justice, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Curator’s Office of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, international organizations, companies and private persons. She also provided expert witness testimony for political asylum petitions. Mrs. Stepanova-Sipper is fluent in Russian and English, and can communicate in Ukrainian.
Dr Hoehne Turaeva Rano
Email: r.turaeva@gmail.com
The Expert is a Country Expert and academic with extensive fieldwork experience and providing expert reports (100+) for more than 40 firms in the UK, US, Netherlands, and Canada with areas of expertise such as but not limited to:
- Authentication documents originating from countries of expertise
- Country reports on the indicated countries of expertise
- Minority groups, religious groups
- Political, social and cultural groups: LGBT
- Organised crime and mafia, state crime
- Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
- Human rights violations
- Women issues: honour killing
- Human trafficking
- Psychiatry and prison conditions
- Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
- Availability of medical services
- State structure, military and security services
- Drug dealing and trafficking
Professor Sebastien Peyrouse
Email: speyrouse@email.gwu.edu
Mr. Sebastien Peyrouse is a Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and a Senior Research Fellow at East-West Institute in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the George Washington University and the East-West Institute, Prof. Peyrouse worked at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute& Silk Road Studies Program as well as at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China, Russia and South Asia. Professor Peyrouse is the author of Turkmenistan. Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (M. E. Sharpe, 2011), and the co-author of The ‘Chinese Question’ in Central Asia. Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor (Hurst, Columbia University Press, 2012) and of Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development (M.E. Sharpe, 2012). He has also co-edited China and India in Central Asia. A new “Great Game”? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies (Ashgate, 2011).
Prof Slavomír Horák
Email: slavomir.horak@post.cz
Slavomír Horák is an Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His research covers political, social and economic issues in Central Asia. He is the author of several books on Central Asian and Afghan internal development as well as numerous articles published in Czech, Russian and English scholarly journals. He particularly focuses on Turkmenistan’s domestic issues, especially informal politics and state- and nation-building. Slavomir Horak is willing to provide his services for a negotiable fee. He is a native Czech speaker and has highly advanced knowledge in Russian and advanced knowledge in English. He has intermediate knowledge in Persia/Tajik, Georgian and Spanish and can comprehend reading in Turkmen, Azeri, French or Ukrainian.