ECMI awarded Carnegie grant

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ECMI awarded Carnegie grant


ECMI awarded grant from prestigious Carnegie Corporation

The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), in Flensburg, along
with the University of Cambridge, has been awarded a grant of around
$380,000. Approximately half of this amount will be given over to the
German-Danish research institute on the Flensburg Fjord. The financial
support will fund a two-year project, developed by the ECMI and the
Centre of International Studies in Cambridge, concerned with methods
of overcoming ethnic conflict.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a renowned international
institution which supports global peace and development. Each year
only very few, out of a multitude of international applications for
project support, are selected. ECMI director, Marc Weller, commented
that "For us this success, in competition with many other leading
institutes, is confirmation of the international prestige achieved by
the ECMI in just three years".

The focus of the project will be on investigating complex power
sharing arrangements. Such arrangements seek to encourage ethnic
groups, within divided societies, to cooperate in political
decision-making, and therefore reduce the necessity of fighting for
power along ethnic lines.

Marc Weller added that "This is an important contribution, both for
European and International conflict management and peace studies. In
addition the project is of significant value to both Flensburg and the
region, especially given that the project institutionalizes
cooperation with the University of Cambridge."

ECMI was founded in 1996 by Denmark, the German Federal Government and
the Land Government of Schleswig-Holstein. It specialises in Minority
Issues and conflict management at the European level. In addition to
the Carnegie project, it has been able to post a series of further
success stories. A recent example of which was the opening of a small
office in Kosovo, which was also made possible through project
funding.

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European Centre for Minority Issues
William McKinney
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Schiffbruecke 12
D-24939 Flensburg, Germany
 
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.ecmi.de
 
Tel: +49 461 1414970
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