PER Bulletin No.13

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PER Bulletin No.13


Princeton-based Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) was founded in 1991 in
anticipation of the serious inter-ethnic conflicts that were to erupt
following the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union. PER conducts programs of intervention and
dialogue and has served as a neutral mediator in several major disputes
in the region. PER also conducts programs of training, education, and
research at international, national, and community levels. President:
Allen H.Kassof. 

The last issue of PER Bulletin (No.13, winter/spring 1998) contains the
following materials: 

- Slovak delegation received by Romanians

- Regional meetings: Political leaders discuss interethnic relations and
regional security in Central Europe (meeting in Baden, Austria brought
together political leaders and authorities from Austria, Hungary,
Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, the USA, the European
Union, and NATO)

- Kosovo effort continues 

- Euro-Atlantic discussion group on interethnic conflicts

- Meeting of young political leaders from Southeastern Europe

- Hungary: Party leaders debate Hungarian foreign policy

- Romania: Local administration and legislation in Romania; Roundtable
on educational reform and language instruction

- Romani news: Roma and the elections: experience and prospects; OSCE
Human Dimension implementation meeting; Council of Europe's Specialist
group on Roma/Gypsies; Depiction of the Roma in mass-media

- Slovakia: Draft legislation on the use of minority languages

- Forum for Ethnic Relations meets, reorganizes ("PER sponsored the
first meeting of the former Yugoslav Forum for Ethnic Relations since
the collapse of the former Yugoslavia..")
 
- Alexei Salmin joins PER Council for Ethnic Accord

- April 1997 - April 1998 publications: Prevention of violence and
discrimination against Roma in Central and Eastern Europe (1997); The
New York roundtable: Toward peaceful accommodation in Kosovo (1997);
Enhancing regional security: Russian and Central European Perspectives
(1997); Images and issues: Coverage of the Roma in the mass media in
Romania (1997); Self-government in Hungary: The Gypsy/Romani experience
and prospects for the future (1998); Political leaders on interethnic
relations and regional security in Central Europe: A roundtable (1998)

Copies of PER publications are available on the PER web page at
http://www.netcom.com/~ethnic/per.html. Print copies are available free
of charge, contact PER Princeton office: [email protected]     

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