1. Kyrgyzstan
Root Cause Analysis of June Riots 2010

2. Osh, Kyrgyzstan

3. Ethnicity Map

4. Key Questions

5. Elementary School in Osh

6. Actors
Actors Interests/Gains
Internal
1.Government of Kyrgyzstan
2.Uzbeki minority
3.Drug Lords and Gangs
4.Uzbeki women
Internal
1.Ethnic (Kyrgyz) dominance
2.Equality in opportunities and
treatment
3.Control of the routes
4.equality
External
1. Uzbekistan
2. Kazakhstan
3. Russia
4. United States of America
5. China
6. United Nations
7. International Drug Trade
External
1. Water and Energy
2. Water and Energy
3. Military Occupation/Arms
4. Military/Air force base
5. Work agreements
6. Peacekeepers
7. Financial

7. An Uzbeki child walks amid debris of a ruined building in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

8. Sources of Conflict
Root Causes
•Ineffective transition from centralized system to market-based system
•Competition among elites for state power
Violent Conflict
Aggravating factors
•Scarce natural resources
•Borders and Customs
•Drug Trade
•Lack of provision of social services
•Poverty
•Mobilization of ethnic differences
Background
•Delimitation of borders by the Soviet Union between 1924 and
•1936 Collapse of the Soviet Union and independence of Soviet republics

9. People run towards buses away from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh

10. Gender Lens of Conflict
• humiliated, raped and murdered.
• aftereffects of rape
• Physical
• psychological trauma
• sexually-transmitted infections
• unwanted pregnancy
• chronic infections
• fertility problems
• Being ostracized by family or community
• Victims of extortion
Abuse of Uzbeki
women

11. Challenges

12. Hope for the Future