Subject: [CivilSoc] Job: Religious Liberty Monitoring, Central Asia
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 13:58:08 EST
WANTED: CENTRAL ASIA CORRESPONDENT
Keston Institute, the leading research and information centre on
religion in communist and postcommunist countries, intends to recruit
a staff member to monitor religious liberty in former Soviet Central
Asia.
Keston has a particular concern for religious liberty, and works on
behalf of believers of all faiths and denominations. The Keston News
Service, distributed by e-mail, carries up-to-date reports on the
subject from our network of correspondents. Our news service is
supplemented by Religion, State and Society, Keston's academic
journal and the leading scholarly publication in the English language
dealing with religious life in the former Soviet bloc.
In the last few years the religious climate in several Central Asian
republics has become increasingly repressive, and Keston has
responded with a successful application for funding for three years
to appoint a full-time correspondent in Central Asia, along the lines
of our well-established presence in Moscow.
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate:
- fluency in Russian
- an active interest in relations between religions, state and society in
the region
- a commitment to freedom of conscience
- sympathy with the Christian ethos of Keston Institute
- resourcefulness and adaptability in unpredictable circumstances
- journalistic writing and editing skills
- interpersonal skills
He or she will also ideally have at least a working knowledge of one
or more of the Central Asian languages.
The new correspondent will develop a network of local contacts,
investigate specific attacks on religious freedom, develop a nuanced,
in-depth understanding of the forces both opposing and defending
religious freedom, and share these insights with Keston News Service
readers around the world. He or she will also be available for
special briefings of government and religious leaders, secular
journalists and human-rights activists.
There are no application forms. Please send a full curriculum vitae
and a piece of your original writing on any subject of around 750
words to Dr Philip Walters at Keston Institute to reach us by Tuesday
6 February 2001.
We intend to interview candidates at Keston Institute in Oxford
during March 2001. The successful candidate will start work full-time
from the beginning of May 2001, but we hope that he or she will be
able to start work with us as soon as possible on a part-time basis.
Salary GBP 17,460. Reasonable accommodation expenses will be paid in
addition to this.
Keston Institute, 4 Park Town, Oxford OX2 6SH, UK
E-mail: keston.institute@keston.org
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