MINELRES: ECMI Newsletter No. 17, August 2002

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: William McKinney <mckinney@ECMI.DE>


Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the seventeenth 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. New acquisitions in the ECMI Library
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1. Activities
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ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity Building Project, Working Table
II: Freedom of Movement, Podgorica, Montenegro, July 6.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project: Third Meeting of the Standing
Technical Working Group on the  Issue of Health, Pristina, Kosovo/a,
July 6.

http://www.ecmi.de/doc/events.html


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2. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
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First Meeting of European Ombudsmen in Flensburg, September 4.

First Consultative Meeting of Organizations engaged in Minority Issues
in Europe, organized by the European Centre for Minority Issues in
consultation with the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National
Minorities, September 5.

Annual Meeting of the "ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of
Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia", Ohrid, Macedonia,
September 20-21.

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 #30
Jarve, Priit:
"National-Cultural Autonomies and Interethnic  Relations in the
Kaliningrad Oblast", Workshop "National-Cultural Autonomies and
Organizations of the Kaliningrad Oblast and their Role in the Social and
Political Life of the Region", Kaliningrad-Svetlogorsk, 26-27 March 2002
and Roundtable "Problems in Interethnic Relations  in the Kaliningrad
Oblast", Svetlogorsk, 1-3 June 2002, 19 pp., appendix.

ECMI Report #31
Curis, Robert:
"Kosovo/a Standing Technical Working Group:  Eighth Meeting Education",
UN Headquarters,  Pristina, 18 May 2002. August 2002, 14 pp., appendix.

ECMI Report #32
Perry, Valery:
"ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ensuring
Effective Implementation of Annex 8 through the Recommendations and
Proposed Activities of Experts and Civil Society Representatives", Final
Workshop of Preliminary Project Phase Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 21
June 2002. August 2002, 25 pp., appendix.
 
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4. New acquisitions in the ECMI Library
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The following are Working Papers in a series of five comparative case
studies on the effectiveness of the OSCE High Commissioner on National
Minorities, edited by Wolfgang Zellner, Randolf Oberschmidt and Claus
Neukirch. These Working Papers are available for download at:
http://www.core-hamburg.de/english/publications/workingpapers/

Kulyk, Volodymyr:
Revisiting a Success Story: Implementation of the Recommendations of the
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to Ukraine, 1994-2001.
CORE Working Paper 6. Hamburg: Centre for OSCE Research, 2002.

The involvement of the HCNM in Ukraine centred mainly around the issues
of the status of Crimea, the integration of the Crimean Tatars and the
linguistic rights of Russians. The study analyses the development of
political events in Ukraine and to what extent the recommendations
issued by the HCNM to the Ukrainian government have been implemented.
Additionally, the author elaborates whether or not the High Commissioner
has been effective in his actions by evaluation the expedience and
timing as well as the substance of the intervention of the HCNM and the
consequences of his involvement for security and democracy. 

Sarv, Margit:
Integration by Reframing Legislation: Implementation of the
Recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to
Estonia, 1993-2001. CORE Working Paper 7. Hamburg: Centre for OSCE
Research, 2002.

This study analyses to what extent the recommendations issued by the
HCNM to the Estonian government, directed mainly towards the Estonian
aliens and citizenship legislation, have been implemented by the
Estonian authorities, and to what extent the HCNM succeeded thereby in
fostering the integration of Estonia's Russian-speaking population into
society. While assessing the HCNM's impact on the conflict
transformation process in Estonia, the role of other international
actors, such as the European Union and the Council of Europe, is also
taken into consideration.

Horvath, Istvan:
Facilitating Conflict Transformation: Implementation of the
Recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to
Romania, 1993-2001. CORE Working Paper 8. Hamburg: Centre for OSCE
Research, 2002.

The study starts with a broadly based analysis of the ethnopolitical
development of Romania from 1989 to 2001. Based on this analysis, it
evaluates the High Commissioner's involvement, which mainly focused on
minority-language high school and university education. The study comes
to the conclusion that during the last decade, the High Commissioner
essentially facilitated Romania's successful period of conflict
transformation.


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newsletter, please contact William McKinney at: mckinney@ecmi.de.