Caspian Arbitration Society is an association of arbitration practitioners which aims to: 1. to develop and maintain an efficient, innovative and highly regarded dispute resolution platform which may be used by any party and in any kind of dispute insofar as this is consistent with the applicable laws; 2. to establish and implement dispute resolution mechanisms as part of the platform which are specifically adapted to disputes involving countries in the Greater Caspian Region (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); 3. to promote alternative dispute resolution mechanisms by combining a cutting-edge and innovative approach with existing best practice standards implemented on other platforms for international arbitration; and 4. to promote cooperation between arbitrators and other arbitration practitioners for the purposes of improving the CAS and other existing platforms for alternative dispute resolution.