MINELRES: ECMI Newsletter No.24, March 2003
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ECMI Newsletter No. 24, March 2003
Dear Subscribers,
Welcome to the twenty-fourth issue of the ECMI Newsletter, and thank you
for your interest.
TOPICS
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1. Activities
2. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
3. New ECMI Publications
4. Final ECMI/EBLUL Report to European
Commission on Support for Minority Languages
in Europe online
5. New acquisitions of the ECMI Library
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1. Activities
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Visit to ECMI of Ms. Ute Erdsiek-Rave, Minister for Culture and
Educational Policy of Schleswig-Holstein, and representatives of Sch�ler
Helfen Leben, a German-based school initiative active in Kosovo, 17
March.
Workshop III of Carnegie Project 'Resolving Self-Determination Disputes
Using Complex Power Sharing' at Lauterpacht Centre for International
Law, Cambridge, 28-30 March.
http://www.ecmi.de/cps/index.html
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2. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
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ECMI Panel on Ethnopolitics and Elections at 8th Annual World Convention
of the ASN, "History, Identity and Political Order in the New Europe" at
the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 3-5 April.
Chair
Graham Holliday (ECMI)
Papers
Stefan Wolff (University of Bath)
The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Elections
Florian Bieber (ECMI)
Electoral Engineering: The Balkan Record
Eben Friedman (ECMI)
Electoral System Design and Minority Representation in Slovakia and
Macedonia
Discussant
Shale Horowitz (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
Further events for 2003 will be announced soon on the ECMI website.
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/events.html
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3. New ECMI Publications
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Please remember that all ECMI publications can be downloaded at:
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/public_list.html
ECMI Report #43
Bieber, Florian and Emilija Stefanov
"ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity-Building Project: EU Accession
and Minority Rights in Serbia, Montenegro and Sandzak / Sandzak as Part
of a Euro-Region?", Training Workshop 5-8 December 2002, Kotor. March
2003, 32 pp., appendix.
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4. Final ECMI/EBLUL Report for European Commission on Minority Languages
in Europe online
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Grin, Francois, ECMI and Tom Moring, EBLUL (2002).
Final Report Support for Minority Languages in Europe.
Research Project Leaders: Francois Grin, ECMI & Tom Moring, EBLUL.
Other principal researchers: Durk Gorter, Fryske Academy; Johan H�ggman,
EBLUL; Donall O Riagain, EBLUL; Miquel Strubell, Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya Brussels: European Commission, 242 pp.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/langmin/support.pdf
The purpose of this report is to provide the necessary instruments for
the orientation of European Union support to linguistic diversity. This
issue is addressed in a broader context, characterised by the existence
of other policies carried out at various levels (national, regional,
local) aiming to protect and promote regional and minority languages.
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5. New acquisitions of the ECMI Library
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Brezigar, Bojan (2002). "Slovene Minority in Italy Through the
Monitoring Process of the Framework Convention for the Protection of
National Minorities", Razprave in Gradivo 41, 8-31.
This article deals with the implementation of the Council of Europe
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) in
Italy, referring especially to the Slovene minority in the Italian
Autonomous Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The article is based on
existing documentation, mostly available online and on some newspaper
articles. The article reviews the activities starting with the Italian
State report, forwarded by the Italian government to the Council of
Europe on 3 May 1999, and it ends with the adoption of the Resolution on
the implementation, adopted by the Committee of the Council of Ministers
of the Council of Europe on 3 July 2002. The time between these events
was crucial for the Slovene minority in Italy. In the year 2001 the
Italian parliament adopted new legislation for the protection of the
Slovene minority in Italy which dynamised the relationship with the
Council of Europe as well. In January 2002 the decision of the Italian
government to change some rules related to bilingual identity cards
caused further troubles and involved the diplomacy of the Republic of
Slovenia as well. The process of evaluation of the Italian
implementation of the FCNM can thus be considered an interesting case
study, involving European, bilateral and domestic juridical dimensions.
Keating, Michael and John McGarry (eds.) (2001). Minority Nationalism
and the Changing International Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Globalization and European integration are sometimes seen as the enemies
of nationalism, sweeping away particularisms and imposing a single
economic, cultural and political order. It is argued here on the
contrary that, by challenging the 'nation-state' as the sole basis for
identity and sovereignty, they open the way for a variety of claims by
stateless nations. It is certainly true that recent years have seen a
strong recurrence of nationalist claims, in Europe and in other parts of
the world. At the same time, however, globalization and European
integration provide new ways of managing nationality claims. At one
level, they lower the stakes in independence in the traditional sense
less important and provide ways in which mjultiple and conflicting
nationality claims could be accomodated in new political structures. The
chapters in this collection consider these issues from a theoretical
perspective and through case studies of stateless nationalisms in
western, eastern and central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and
Quebec. They record a wide variety of experiences and show that, while
there are no easy answers to conflicting national claims, there is
reason to believe that they can be managed through democratic political
processes.
Eldridge, Justin L.C. (2002). "Playing at Peace: Western Politics,
Diplomacy and the Stabilization of Macedonia". European Security 11 (3),
46-90.
On 27 July 2001 negotiators of the ethnic Slav and ethnic Albanian
political parties of the self-proclaimed unity government of the
Republic of Macedonia met at Ohrid, a lakeside resort in the
southwestern corner of the war-torn country. The negotiators had fled
Skopje, the country's starved, grey capital, because the pressures from
the spreading war between ethnic Albaninan insurgents and the dominantly
Slav security forces had made constructive political dialogue nearly
impossible. Ohrid, on the other hand, was a community that embraced many
of the region's historical contradictions. The town had seen Romans,
Byzantines, Franks, Ottomans, Serbs, Greeks, and Albanians all come and
go. Saint Clement of Ohrid (d. 916) had once lived and worshipped in the
city, and much of the architecture, with its winding streets and
numerous churches and monasteries, still bore the marks of its medieval
and diverse past. All parties arrived in this contemplative setting
under intense diplomatic pressure from the European Union, the United
States, and NATO to find a constitutional and political solution to the
crisis, and find one soon.
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