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Policy Briefs published within the NORCA platform translate academic research into concise, accessible, and policy-relevant insights for policymakers, practitioners, civil society organisations, and international stakeholders.These briefs draw on empirical findings and comparative research conducted within EU-funded projects coordinated or hosted at Lund University. They address key challenges rel

https://www.norca.lu.se/publications/policy-briefs - 2026-06-25

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-project/policy-briefs-social - 2026-06-25

Local Meso-/Micro-Level Institutions, Actors, Social Norms, Practices WP3 moves to the everyday arenas of law and order—studying how citizens, entrepreneurs, civil society actors, and low-level officials navigate ethics, legality, respectability, solidarity, and stigma in assessing actions, making claims, and enforcing norms outside formal venues. It probes societal watchdogs, informal mobilizatio

https://www.norca.lu.se/work-package-3 - 2026-06-25

This page brings together policy briefs produced within POLCA 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)Beyond Formalisation: Why institutional pluralism matters for EU

https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/policy-briefs-polca - 2026-06-25

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/policy-briefs-mocca - 2026-06-25

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/policy-briefs-mars - 2026-06-25

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/about-project/research-fellows - 2026-06-25

https://www.norca.lu.se/social/partners - 2026-06-25

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/project/about-project/policy-briefs-polca/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-06-25

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/project/about-project/policy-briefs-polca/policy-brief-2-march-2026 - 2026-06-25

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/policy-briefs-mocca/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-06-25

https://www.norca.lu.se/social/publications/book-chapters - 2026-06-25

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 - 2026-06-25

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/about-project-minaret/about-project/aims-project - 2026-06-25

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/about-project-minaret/about-project/methodological-approaches - 2026-06-25

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/about-project-minaret/about-project/project-rationale - 2026-06-25

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/work-package-1/work-package-1-0 - 2026-06-25

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/work-package-2-0 - 2026-06-25