On-line: MMCP Innovative Practice database updated

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On-line: MMCP Innovative Practice database updated


LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project (MMCP)
Innovative Practice Database
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/csdb/

LGI  MMCP is pleased to announce that its on-line innovative practice
database has been recently updated.  The update includes more than
thirty new entries from SEE, CEE, Estern Europe, Caucasus and Central
Asia. Further new entries will be uploaded soon.

The innovative practice database contains more than 150 case studies
on innovative practices in the field of community relations in
multiethnic environment and local initiatives for ethnic conflict
resolution. Materials included are written by contributors to the case
study writing project of Managing Multiethnic Communities Project
(MMCP) of LGI. The aim of this database is to provide researchers,
activists and public officials with a forum to share their experiences
in developing innovative strategies to address issues related to the
management of multiethnic communities. In the spring 2000, LGI
Managing Multiethnic Communities Project and the Center for European
Migration and Ethnic Studies (CEMES) www.cemes.org have engaged into a
partnership to update and maintain the database of case studies on
innovative practices in the field of community relations in
multiethnic environment and local initiatives for ethnic conflict
resolution. Recent entries are the first results of this partnership.

LGI MMCP and CEMES invite officials in public administration,
activists in the non-governmental sphere, as well as researchers,
scholars or other experts to  visit the database at
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/csdb/ 
We are also inviting experts involved in various innovative local
policies to accommodate ethnic diversity at the community level to
share information on their experiences and to submit case files to
enrich further the database.

In order to submit your information on good practices in the field of
managing multiethnic communities or your feedback, please contact
Petra Kovacs at [email protected]

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Managing Multiethnic Communities Project (MMCP)is an in-house policy
research Project of Local Government and Public Service Reform
Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute (Budapest). The purpose
of the MMCP is to identify and distribute knowledge on innovative
local policy-making practices in the fields of ethnic conflict
resolution and multicultural politics.
 
MMCP has been developing various resources:

- an annotated Bibliography on Ethnic Relations edited by Margit
Feischmidt
http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/books/bibliography2/announce20000301-2.html

- a textbook for schools of Public Administration in CEE  Anna-Maria
Biro and Petra Kovacs (eds)"Diversity in Action: Local Public
Management of Multiethnic Communities in CEE"

http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/books/Diversity_in_Action/announce20000301.html

- a volume on managing multiethnic coexistence in countries of former
Yugoslavia edited by Nenad Dimitrijevic
http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/books/mmcpxyu/index.html

- a virtual library of internet resources
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/weblibrary/index.html

- Managing Multiethnic Communities - Training of Trainers Program
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/Training/20010920.html

- a pilot Roma Elected Leadership Training program,
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/roma/index.html

- a mailing list to disseminate information on policy developments
relevant to multiethnic societies in CEE, SEE and NIS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multiethnic

- MMCP is a member of the COMIR Consortium of Minority Reasources
http://lgi.osi.hu/comir/  or directly at www.comir.net

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