<h1 style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative</b></span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;">
</div><p style="text-align: justify;" mce_style="text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #000000;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The  Central Asia and Caucasus Research and  Training Initiative (CARTI)  provides support and training for original  research by young  university-based academics in their home academic  environment. The  program targets the scholars in the early stages of  their postgraduate  training and recent graduates of doctoral programs in  the post-Soviet  countries of South Caucasus and Central Asia,  Afghanistan, and  Mongolia.</span><br></p>