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The Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (ZIORI) is a research-oriented independent institution. It will endeavour to encourage, facilitate, and co-ordinate research on all aspects of the Indian Ocean by local as well as foreign scholars, with particular emphasis on the social sciences of Zanzibar, the Swahili coast, and the Indian Ocean. Research programmes on "Maritime Cultures & Globalisation in the Indian Ocean", "Swahili Civilisation & Politics of City-States & Marginalisation" and "Migrations & Formation of New Societies in the Indian Ocean: free movement, slave trade, & indentured labour" ... [according to site editor's information]