MINELRES: ECMI Newsletter No. 21, December 2002

Wed Dec 18 17:16:57 2002

Original sender: William McKinney <[email protected]>

Subject: ECMI Newsletter No. 21,
December 2002

Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the twenty-first 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. Minorities in International Law: An Introductory Study. First volume
of ECMI Handbook Series on Minority Issues
5. New book on ethnic conflict management
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1. Activities
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ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, Training Workshop "Privitisation",
Tirana, November 3-6.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, Study Visit/ Training Workshop:
"Council of Europe", Strasbourg, November 16-21.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, Study Visit to Croatia's Ministry
of Health and major health institutions, Zagreb, November 24-27. 

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, Training Workshop: "Balkan
Integration in the European Union", lectures by Stefan Wolff and other
leading Bath University (UK) experts, Pristina, November 29-December 1.

ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity Building Project: Training
event on EU Accession and minority rights in Serbia, Montenegro and
Sandzak, Kotor, December 5-6.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, workshop of the Standing Technical
Working Group on "Economics and Development", Pristina, December 6.

ECMI Seminar "National Integration in Estonia and Latvia: 2000-2002",
concluding workshop as part of the project "Accession to the EU and
National Integration in Estonia and Latvia", Kompanietor, December 6-8.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, Standing Technical Working Group
Final Review Meeting for year 2002, Pristina, December 7.

ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity building Project: Training
event on Sandzak as part of a Euroregion. Kotor, December 7-8.

ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the
Republic of Macedonia: Annual General Assembly Meeting, Skopje, December
8-9.

ECMI - Konrad Adenauer Foundation Round Table "Minorities in Democracy",
South East European University, Tetovo, December 10.

Taking Ownership of Dayton: ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and
Herzegovina - "Annex 8 Implementation Efforts: A Progress Report on the
Cultural Heritage Association and Civil Society Efforts". The meeting
was followed by a children's art exhibition, media event, and reception,
Sarajevo, December 14.

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

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2. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
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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 #37
Vogel, Tobias K.
"Negotiation and Capacity Building in Montenegro: Workshop on
Education", Workshop 5: "Education", Podgorica, 27 June 2002.
November 2002, 11 pp., appendix.

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4. Minorities in International Law: An Introductory Study.
First volume of ECMI Handbook Series on Minority Issues
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With the establishment of a new Series of Handbooks on Minority Issues,
ECMI aims to provide practical guides to the whole range of instruments
and legal mechanisms that exist at the national, regional, and
international level of the protection of minorities, as well as to the
international actors involved in this area. The Handbooks are aimed at
practitioners, minority rights advocates, government officials, legal
experts, and journalists. They will also serve as valuable introductions
to minority issues and ethnopolitics for students of International
Relations, International Law, Political Science and related disciplines.
The Series will be published by the the Council of Europe (CoE), which
has been at the forefront of initiating important developments relating
to minority protection throughout the whole of Europe.

Pentassuglia, Gaetano. Minorities in International Law: An Introductory
Study. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2002.

Ordering details will be available at the end of December on the ECMI
website.

Minorities in International Law: An Introductory Study opens ECMI's new
Handbook series on Minority Issues. The book offers a comprehensive and
critical overview of the issue of minorities in international law with a
focus on developments following the Cold War. It outlines the
substantive entitlements available to minorities and their members,
pointing to the distinctiveness of minority rights as an integral part
of the contemporary canon of international human rights, describes the
institutional work in the field, and singles out particular problems and
contexts where the minority question arises. Separate chapters cover,
among others, the definition of minority, the legal protection as
developed by the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the European Union,
minorities and self-determination, the role of special treaties, the
various techniques of supervision, and the relation of international
standards to adopted or attempted domestic regimes. A good deal of
practice is considered, including the jurisprudence of judicial and
quasi-judicial bodies, such as the European Court of Human Rights and
the Human Rights Committee. Addressing many central issues of topical
concern, the book will be of appeal to human rights scholars, to
students of international law and relations, as well as to
non-governmental organisations and other institutions involved in
minority issues. 

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

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5. New book on ethnic conflict management
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Schneckener, Ulrich. Auswege aus dem Buergerkrieg. Modelle zur
Regulierung ethno-nationalistischer Konflikte in Europa. Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp, 2002, 628 pp.

This book is in German.The study analyses regulations and possible
solutions of various past and current ethnic conflicts in Europe -
ranging from Northern Ireland to Cyprus and from Estonia to the Basque
Country. Four distinct models of conflict regulation are covered by the
author: minority rights, bi-and multilateral conflict management, power
sharing and territorial solutions. The author examines which models of
conflict regulation are adequate in which situations, the experiences
made in the past, and the benefits and problems of each model, and
considers under which conditions they may work and lead to successful
conflict resolution.

We hope you have enjoyed this twenty-first issue of the ECMI Newsletter,
and we hope you will remember to tell interested colleagues about it.

If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement of this
newsletter, please contact William McKinney at:
[email protected]

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