Jon: Observing Post-Conflict Elections in the Kyrgyz Republic

In late 2010 and early 2011, Civilian Response Corps members from four U.S. agencies went to the Kyrgyz Republic to further efforts to reduce potential conflict and to support a democratic transition to a new government. After ethnic violence in June 2010 left hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, Corps members supported development of a six-month stabilization strategy, and established a temporary U.S. office in the South to assist in the coordination of humanitarian and disaster response and improve reporting from the region. Jon's primary function there was to give added reach to the political and economic sections of the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek by adding to their depth of understanding of what was going on in the South.

Transcript: http://www.civilianresponsecorps.gov/newsroom/169223.htm

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