ECMI activities schedule 2001 (as of 26 April 2001)
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ECMI activities schedule 2001 (as of 26 April 2001)
ECMI Activities 2001
(as of 26 April 2001)
Additional events are in preparation and will be announced as soon as
possible
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Events
31 January
ECMI Lecture "Israel's Ethnic Democracy and the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict" by Professor Sammy Smooha, Professor of Sociology,
University of Haifa, Israel.
9-10 February
ECMI Carnegie Project Workshop "Resolving Self-Determination Disputes
through Complex Power-Sharing Arrangements" in collaboration with the
University of Cambridge. This two-year project is funded by the
Carnegie Endowment of New York.
15-18 March
ECMI First Standing Technical Working Group Meeting, "Kosovo/a Civil
Society Project", Pristina, Kosovo/a.
5 April
ECMI Panel at the ASN Convention, "Recent Challenges to Power- Sharing
Theory", New York, USA.
Chair: Dr Priit J�rve (Senior Analyst, European Centre for Minority
Issues)
1. Complex power sharing as a means of overcoming self-determination
disputes: a typology (Ms Carmen Kettley, and Marc Weller, Director of
the European Centre for Minority Issues and Assistant Director of the
Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge)
2. Case study 1: Dayton as a system of complex power-sharing? (Mr
Florian Bieber, University of Vienna and Regional Representative,
European Centre for Minority Issues)
3. Case study 2: Recent Developments in Corsica: The "Matignon
Process" and Insular Autonomy as a Response to Self-Determination
Claims in Corsica. (Ms Farimah Daftary, European Centre for Minority
Issues)
4. Case study 3: The peace-process in Northern Ireland (Professor John
McGarry, University of Waterloo)
Discussant: Professor Ted Gurr (Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland and
Director, Minorities at Risk project, Center for International
Development and Conflict Management)
27 April
ECMI Expert Seminar �Ethnopolitical Conflict in Europe" with Professor
Ted Gurr, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Government
& Politics, University of Maryland and Director, Minorities at Risk
project, Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
4 May
ECMI Lecture "Friedensarbeit an der Forde: Neue Entwicklungen am
ECMI", contribution to the Europa Woche.
15-17 May
Second Meeting of the ECMI "NGO Roundtable on Inter-Ethnic Relations
in FYR Macedonia", Struga, Macedonia. This is the second meeting of
the NGO Roundtable established in Flensburg, Germany, in December
2000. This project is supported by the Royal Danish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (Secretariat for Peace and Stability/ FRESTA Fund) and
the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
23 May
ECMI Expert Seminar "Minority Issues: The Northern Dimension" with
Professor Lauri Hannikainen from The Northern Institute for
Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland.
26 May
ECMI Second Standing Technical Working Group Meeting "Health",
Pristina, Kosovo/a.
1-3 June
ECMI Workshop "Multiculturalism, Minority Education and Indicators of
Integration" in Estonia, as part of the project "Accession to the EU
and National Integration in Estonia and Latvia" (in co-operation with
the Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn, Estonia).
8-10 June
ECMI Workshop "Language Policy in Urban Environment" in Latvia, as
part of the project "Accession to the EU and National Integration in
Estonia and Latvia".
22-24 June
ECMI Expert Workshop on "Forced Migrants in the Kaliningrad Region",
ECMI Flensburg.
30 June
ECMI Third Standing Technical Working Group Meeting, "Human Rights and
equal Access to judicial Services", Pristina, Kosovo/a.
6-10 September
ECMI Panels for the 4th Pan-European International Relations
Conference "International law: Managing Ethno-political Conflict in
Europe through a New Multi-Layered Legal Regime", University of Kent
at Canterbury, England. In a series of three panels speakers will
consider the increasing intrusion of international legal rules and
mechanisms on the 'sovereign' state.
September
ECMI Roundtable "Forced Migrants in the Kaliningrad Region",
Kaliningrad.
September
Annual ECMI Berlin Colloqium, 2001, Berlin.
Lessons from Peace Making in the Balkans.
12-15 October
Second ECMI Carnegie Workshop in collaboration with the University of
Cambridge.
30 Nov - 2 Dec
ECMI Conference "Implementation of Minority Rights Standards -
Ethnopolitical Conflict Management in Europe" in collaboration with
the Federal Union of European Nationalities and the European Academy
Sankelmark.
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