Subject: WANTED: CENTRAL ASIA CORRESPONDENT
From: John Kinahan (john.kinahan@keston.org)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 07:01:27 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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