<h1><strong><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative</span></span></span></strong></h1>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></span></p>
