Gozaar

Gozaar (which means "transition" in Persian) "is a web-based Persian-English forum devoted to democracy and human rights in Iran. Gozaar was launched by Freedom House as a monthly journal and a collection of resources in September 2006. Seventeen issues of the journal were published, each dedicated to a new and important theme, such as rights of women, ethnic and religious minorities, children, workers, and students as well as rule of law, stewardship of natural and cultural resources, and transparency in government."

The organization seems to have gone defunct as shown by letter on the website.

There are similar organizations set up to influence future policy in countries that are targets of US interests/interference. The Fikra Forum is another similar project, that one organized by WINEP.

Contributors
Accessed August 2008:


 * Arash Abadi
 * Mohammad Abdi
 * Peter Ackerman
 * Mahnaz Afkhami
 * Ali Afshari
 * Ramin Ahmadi
 * Michael Allen
 * Iran Davar Ardalan
 * Ahmad Ashraf
 * Akbar Atri
 * Habib Azarsina
 * Houman Azizi
 * Abolfazl Bahadori
 * Bahram Bahrami
 * Raha Bahreini
 * Shahrokh Bahrol-Oloumi
 * Manouchehr Bakhtiyari
 * Alborz Baqeri
 * Omid Bastani
 * Niloufar Beyzaie
 * Nasser Boladai
 * Ladan Boroumand
 * Hamid Boustani
 * Daniel Brett
 * Nathan Brown
 * Thomas Carothers
 * Mehrdad Darvishpour
 * Parviz Datsmalchi
 * Fariba Davoodi Mohajer
 * Larry Diamond
 * Jack DuVall
 * Kazem Esmaeli
 * Siham Al Figuigui
 * Carl Gershman
 * Sasan Ghahreman
 * Farid Haerinejad
 * Levon Haftvan
 * Roya Hakakian
 * Ensafali Hedayat
 * Hormoz Hekmat
 * Maryam Houleh
 * Arash Kamangir
 * Mehrangiz Kar
 * Karin Deutsch Karlekar
 * Samsum Kashfi
 * Nahid Kheirabi
 * George Khelashvili
 * Hadi Khorsandi
 * Mahmood Khoshchereh
 * Mansour Koushan
 * Nikahang Kowsar
 * Tom Lantos &dagger;
 * Nima Mansouri
 * Eleanor Marchant
 * Ivan Marovic
 * Mehrdad Mashayekhi
 * Mohamed Y. Mattar
 * Abbas Ma'roufi
 * Michael McFaul
 * Babak Mehrpouya
 * Mariam Memarsadeghi - cofounder
 * Abbas Milani
 * Majid Mohammadi
 * Fereshteh Molavi
 * Qumars Navidi
 * Maryam Nayeb-Yazdi
 * Massoud Noghrekar
 * Hossein Nushazar
 * Koushiar Parsi
 * Shahrnush Parsipur
 * Lily Pourzand
 * Fazel Hosseini Rad
 * Vahed Raheban
 * Ali Asghar Ramezanpoor
 * Gita M. Rezania
 * Ahmad Sakhavarz
 * Mahnaz Salami
 * Bill Samii
 * Faraj Sarkouhi
 * Nikoo Sarshar
 * Mohsen Sazegara
 * Ali Sedighi
 * Celine Senseney
 * Sholeh Shahrokhi
 * Farhad Sharafi
 * Ali Sharifian
 * Mohammad Tahavori
 * Ray Takeyh
 * Kamran Talattof
 * Javad Talei
 * Kasra Tehrani
 * S. Enders Wimbush

Contact

 * Web: www.gozaar.org