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In March 1993, a small group of Tajikistanis from different regions, nationalities and political movements sat down together in Moscow for their first dialogue. They have continued to meet every two to four months to the time of this writing at the end of 1998. Their purposes have been to help end violence in Tajikistan and to design ways of building the kind of society they agreed from the start that they all wanted—a “united, secular, democratic and peaceful” Tajikistan.
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The two-part strategy is described in Randa M. Slim and Harold H. Saunders, “Managing Conflict in Divided Societies: Lessons from Tajikistan,” Negotiation Journal (Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1996), pp. 31–46. The background section on the civil war in Tajikistan and the section on the civil-society strategy are adapted from that article.
For the steps leading to the constitutional formation of the USSR, please see Anatole G. Mazour, Russia Past and Present (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1951), pp. 450–451 and 479–481. For a brief history of Tajikistan’s formation, see Martha Brill Olcott, Central Asia’s New States: Independence, Foreign Policy, and Regional Security (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace), pp. 121–128.
For a fuller account, please see Irina Zviagelskaya, The Tajik Conflict (Moscow: Russian Center for Strategic Research and International Studies and Reading, England: Ithaca, 1997).
An earlier account of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue appeared in Harold H. Saunders, “Sustained Dialogue on Tajikistan,” Mind and Human Interaction (Vol. 6, No. 3, August 1995), pp. 123–135.
This and the next nine joint memoranda produced during meetings of the Dialogue were later published in Tajiki, Russian and English: Gennady I. Chufrin, Ashurboi Imomov and Harold H. Saunders, eds., Memoranda and Appeals of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue Within the Framework of the Dartmouth Conference (1993–1997) (Moscow: Russian Center for Strategic Research and International Studies, 1997). This also includes a short account of the Dialogue. All quotes from joint memoranda may be found in this volume.
David Mathews, Politics for People (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
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Saunders, H.H. (1999). The Inter-Tajik Dialogue. In: A Public Peace Process. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299392_8
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