SEIM Analytics and the OSCE

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For election-related findings of the OSCE-ODIHR, please consult official reports available.

Regarding the relationship to OSCE of SEIM Analytics, the following is to be stated:

  • Dr. Seim has a long-term commitment since 2007 in serving for OSCE and its institutions, like the Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR). Seim served as long-term election observer in 14 OSCE-ODIHR election observation missions in Southeast and Eastern Europe, Türkiye, and Central Asia, and short-term in 11 ODIHR missions. Go to SEIM Analytics election expert services.

  • Dr. Seim engaged directly with OSCE structures as hired advisor to the Norwegian OSCE-delegation in Vienna in 2021, being responsible for reporting to the Norwegian foreign ministry from the weekly meetings of the OSCE Permanent Council, and following ODIHR conferences and Forum for Security Cooperation, and the negotiations ahead of the Ministerial Council meeting in Stockholm on 2-3 December 2021.  This was an intensive work period when the conflict in/about Ukraine escalated towards war, armed confrontations occurred in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, the political stalemates and tension continued in breakaway republics like Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, and human rights were trampled upon in Belarus, Crimea, and Central Asia.

  • SEIM Analytics is positioned and interested in participating in conducting thematic, strategic, OSCE-programme and/or OSCE-project evaluations in the thematic areas of OSCE’s work, in particular in the field of conflict prevention and resolution, democratization, human rights, elections, and national minorities. These fields corresponds with the key research fields and regions of specialization of SEIM Analytics, such as the contemporary history, elections, and politics of Southeast Europe with special emphasis on the break-up of Yugoslavia and the subsequent conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo in the 1990s, and the regions post-war transition and democratization.

  • As a fieldwork-inclined microhistorian applying ethnographic methods, and as a translator of Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Seim can conduct interviews directly with actors and interlocutors in the field, to assess OSCEs post-conflict, democratization, and reconciliation projects, e.g. in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, Ukraine and Moldova are prioritized regions for SEIM Analytics, following years of ODIHR work there during key elections (2009-10, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2023).

  • When navigating sensitive political environments and meeting politicians, including EU parliamentarians, government officials, administration, NGOs, and civil society during OSCE-ODIHR secondments, adhering to the key principles of impartiality, integrity, and objectivity is the key to success, both for gaining the trust of stakeholders and the ability to feed into team reports and mission reports with substantiated evidence. Independent analysis has contributed to a track-record of spot-on political prognoses and is the cornerstone in Dr. Seim’s academic research and SEIM Analytics’ professional engagements, which therefore are free from any conflict of interests.

Evaluation quotes about SEIM OSCE ODIHR performances:

•        “Seim’s cascadscadfvadc.” (Malawi 2023)

•        “The theWDFQWQWDQWD ” (KyrgyztAN, 2023)


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