ECMI Newsletter 12
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ECMI Newsletter 12
ECMI Newsletter No. 12, March 2002
Dear Subscriber,
Welcome to the twelfth issue of the ECMI Newsletter,
and thank you for your interest.
TOPICS
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1. Staff news
2. Activities
3. Events
4. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
5. New ECMI Publications
6. New Article in JEMIE Special Focus on Romani Political
Participation in Central and Eastern Europe
7. New acquisitions of the ECMI Library
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1. Staff news
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Farimah Daftary, Research Associate, is ending her employment with
ECMI effective end of March. The staff of ECMI thanks her for her
excellent work and wishes her the best of luck for her new position
with the EU Accession Monitoring Program of the Open Society Institute
in Budapest.
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2. Activities
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ECMI Seminar on the "Council of Europe Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities", Frank Selbmann and Alexander
Morawa, Flensburg, 6 February.
ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project: First Meeting in 2002 of the
Standing Technical Working Group, Pristina, Kosovo/a, 2 March.
ECMI Seminar on "Effective Participation of Minorities", Carmen
Kettley, Flensburg, March 7.
ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity Building Project, third
workshop, "Economic development in the Serbian-Montenegrin Border
Region", Podgorica, Montenegro, March 22.
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/events.html
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3. Events
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Opening of four ECMI Regional NGO Centres in Macedonia and of the ECMI
Skopje Office, 27 February - 20 March.
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/events_press.html?id=42
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4. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
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7th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN) in New York, Columbia University: "Rethinking
Institutional Design Approaches to Self-Determination Conflicts".
Participants: Marc Weller (Chair); Stefan Wolff; Wolfgang
Danspeckgruber, Florian Bieber; Graham Holliday; Brendan O'Leary
(Discussant), 11-13 April.
ECMI Self-Determination Disputes through Complex Power-Sharing
Project, third workshop "Annex 8: Cultural Heritage", Sarajevo/Banja
Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 12.
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/events.html
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5. New ECMI publications
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Please remember that all ECMI publications can be ordered and/or
downloaded from the ECMI website at:
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/public_list.html
ECMI Report #20
Daftary, Farimah and Sunoor Verma:
Final Report of the ECMI Project "NGO Roundtable on Interethnic
Relations in the FYR of Macedonia", Launch
of the "ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations
in the Republic of Macedonia" and of the "ECMI Regional NGO Centres",
Skopje, FYR of Macedonia, 17 - 18 December 2001. February 2002, 53pp.,
1 map, appendix.
ECMI Working Paper #15
Sabanadze, Natalie:
International Involvement in the South Caucasus. February 2002, 37 pp.
ECMI Brief #7
Perry, Valery:
Constitutional Reform and the 'Spirit' of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
February 2002.
ECMI Brief #8
Bieber, Florian:
The Instrumentalization of Minorities in the Montenegrin Dispute over
Indepencence. March 2002.
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6. New Article in JEMIE Special Focus on Romani
Political Participation in Central and Eastern Europe
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Sobotka, Eva:
The Limits of the State: Political Participation and Representation of
Roma in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/download/Focus11-2001Sobotka.pdf
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7. New acquisitions of the ECMI Library
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Poleshchuk, Vadim
Advice not welcomed: Recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner to
Estonia and Latvia and the response. M�nster/Hamburg/Berlin: LIT
Verlag, 2001.
The first OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der
Stoel, is widely recognized as one of the
architects of peace and stability in the Baltic region. However, his
involvement in interethnic reconciliation
in Estonia and Latvia was formally limited to the recommendations made
to the repective governments. This book contains an overview of the
High Commisioner's urgent advice, an analysis of the appropriate
changes in domestic legislation from 1993 to 2000, and finally the
practical effects of the recommendations. The book contributes to more
realistic and balanced studies of the role and potential of
influential international organizations.
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We hope that you enjoyed this issue of the ECMI Newsletter and that
you will remember to tell colleagues and friends about it.
For further information, please kindly contact Wes McKinney
at [email protected].
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