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This page brings together policy briefs produced within MOCCA project. The briefs present concise, research-based analysis and policy recommendations on governance, law, and social transformation in Central Asia and related regions.Select a policy brief below to read the full web version or download the PDF.Policy Brief 1 (March 2026)Strengthening Tax Transparency for Anti-Corruption Reform in Uzb
https://www.norca.lu.se/mocca/publications/policy-briefs - 2026-10-23
This page brings together policy briefs produced within MARS project. The briefs present concise, research-based analysis and policy recommendations on governance, law, and social transformation in Central Asia and related regions.Select a policy brief below to read the full web version or download the PDF.Policy Brief 1 (April 2026)Building Self-Efficacy as a Policy Tool to Improve Mental Health
https://www.norca.lu.se/mars/publications/policy-briefs - 2026-10-23
The SOCIAL Research Fellows section presents researchers participating in the SOCIAL project through fellowships, secondments, and research exchanges funded under the Horizon Europe and MSCA framework.
https://www.norca.lu.se/social/research-fellows - 2026-10-23
POLCA (The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Central Asia Project (project number 101228676), funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges programmeNordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund UniversityAuthor: Deyanira Iskakova, deyanira [dot] iskakova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (deyanira[dot]iskakov
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/policy-briefs/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-10-23
POLCA (The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Central Asia Project (project number 101228676), funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges programme Nordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund UniversityAuthor: Farrukh Khakimov, khakimov [at] strategy [dot] uz (khakimov[at]strategy[dot]uz) Editor: Mame
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/policy-briefs/policy-brief-2-march-2026 - 2026-10-23
Project Title: MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia (project number 101085855. Research and staff exchange project funded by the European Commission's HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 programme)Author: Gizem Kapucu, PhD, gizem [dot] kapucu [at] marmara [dot] edu [dot] tr (gizem[dot]kapucu[at]marmara[dot]edu[dot]tr) Editor: Mamed Askerov, mamed [dot] askerov [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot]
https://www.norca.lu.se/mocca/publications/policy-briefs/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-10-23
MINARET: A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia is an international research and doctoral training project that examines the relationship between law, religion, and governance in Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial and post-imperial histories.The project explores how Islamic values, legal cultures,
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret - 2026-10-23
MINARET aims to advance understanding of how law, religion, and governance interact in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. The project focuses on how Islamic legal cultures, constitutional traditions, and governance practices shape public authority, state legitimacy, legal reform, and debates on democratization and good governance.The project has four main aims:First, MINARET seeks to generat
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project/aims-of-the-project - 2026-10-23
MINARET adopts a comparative, interdisciplinary, and empirically grounded approach to the study of post-imperial Islamic legal cultures. The project combines perspectives from sociology of law, legal studies, political science, anthropology, history, Islamic studies, governance studies, and area studies.The project is built around the study of how law, religion, and governance interact in Muslim-m
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project/methodological-approaches - 2026-10-23
Across many Muslim-majority societies, questions of law, religion, constitutional change, and governance remain central to public life. These questions are especially important in societies shaped by imperial and post-imperial histories, where legal institutions, state authority, religious traditions, and public trust have developed through complex and often contested trajectories.MINARET starts f
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project/project-rationale - 2026-10-23
Imperial Genealogies and Constitutional FormationWork Package 1 examines how imperial legacies have shaped constitutional law, secularism, and state formation in Muslim-majority societies. It focuses on the long-term effects of Ottoman, Soviet, European, and other imperial histories on legal development, public authority, citizenship, and governance.The work package studies constitutional systems
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/work-packages/work-package-1 - 2026-10-23
Islam as a Constitutional Value SystemWork Package 2 explores Islam as a source of constitutional legitimacy, moral authority, and legal meaning in contemporary Muslim-majority societies. It examines how Islamic values interact with constitutional law, administrative reform, legal pluralism, gender justice, financial ethics, and everyday governance.Rather than treating Islam and constitutionalism
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/work-packages/work-package-2 - 2026-10-23
Islam, Citizenship, and SecurityWork Package 3 examines the relationship between Islam, constitutional law, citizenship, and national security. It asks how legal and constitutional frameworks influence social cohesion, public trust, civic identity, and the state’s reliance on coercive forms of authority.This work package challenges simplistic assumptions that link religion, security, and militaris
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/work-packages/work-package-3 - 2026-10-23
The MINARET project is implemented through a broad international network of academic institutions, policy organisations, and civil society actors.Project partners are organised into two categories, reflecting their formal role in the Horizon Europe project structure:BeneficiariesInstitutions that are signatories to the Horizon Europe Grant Agreement and are formally responsible for the implementat
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project-partners - 2026-10-23
Lund University Coordinator University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) University of the West of England, Bristol Sabancı Üniversitesi Leiden University Marmara University University of Zurich Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. Universidad de Granada Fondation nationale des sciences politiques University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet)
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project-partners/beneficiaries - 2026-10-23
Humboldt University of Berlin Kurultai PE Eurasian Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Ozbek Kadin Haklari Dernegi (Türkiye) Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan Anticorruption Business Council of the Kyrgyz Republic University of Michigan Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) Université Internatio
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/project-partners/associated-partners - 2026-10-23
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/news-and-events - 2026-10-23
The MINARET Research Fellows section presents researchers participating in the MINARET project through fellowships, secondments, and research exchanges funded under the Horizon Europe and MSCA framework.
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/research-fellows - 2026-10-23
https://www.norca.lu.se/minaret/publications/books - 2026-10-23
