Paolo Sorbello Author & Editor

Anja Mihr is DAAD Associate Professor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is a professor of Human Rights, Governance, Public Policy, and Transitional Justice. She is the Founder and Program Director of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Center on Governance through Human Rights in Berlin in Germany.; and previously held professorships at the Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy, Erfurt University, Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Paolo Sorbello is a researcher on Central Asian matters living in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is a freelance journalist and editor for various online publications. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK), where he studied labor relations in Kazakhstan’s oil sector.

Brigitte Weiffen is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), The Open University, United Kingdom, with research interests in comparative democratization and regional conflict and crisis management. She is also currently the Chair of Research Committee 34 “Quality of Democracy” of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She has held visiting professorships at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and academic positions at the University of Konstanz and the University of Tübingen, both in Germany.