MINELRES: CfP: NGO News: EU/NATO Enlargement nad East-West relations

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: Daniella Alcin <alcin@freedomhouse.hu>


Call for Submissions

As the post-communist countries move through transition, discussions are
increasingly geared toward the reality of European integration,
accession to the European Union and NATO.  For the immediate accession
countries, the issues center on upcoming convergence, balancing the
national interest with the demands of integration; the other countries
concentrate not only on eventual integration but also, more pressingly,
on the immediate effects of neighbors entering Euro-Atlantic
institutions, while many remain outside.

This imminent enlargement demands serious attention to the separation
created between those who will soon belong to the Euro-Atlantic
community and those who will not.  It especially highlights the need for
a new dialogue between Russia and the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe.

The Spring/Summer 2003 issue of NGONews explores multiple consequences
of new Euro-Atlantic borders, especially what civil society has, is and
should be doing about it.

If your organization's work:
- examines the changing East-West relationship,
- identifies common challenges that remain in the post-Communist
transition process, and
- explores new directions in Euro-Atlantic/Russian cooperation that will
have a lasting impact on the future of democracy and economic freedom in
Europe and beyond

Tell us about it!

We invite articles, ideas, informational graphics and artwork on the
following themes:

Newly acceding countries (Baltics/Visegrad)
- public attitudes toward accession and Euro-Atlantic institutions
- immediate impacts of becoming EU's eastern frontier

Newly marginalized, second-wave neighbors
- challenges of stabilization
- assessing the future of change

Emerging issues
- cross-border impact of Euro-Atlantic enlargement
- economic consequences (trade, finance, Euro adoption, labor markets,
investments and civil society's role)
- security issues
- state building and the challenges of diversity
- independent media

Continuing challenges
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Moldova
- Ex-Yugoslavia
- Kaliningrad
 
Submissions are especially welcome from activists or practitioners based
in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics in the
following recommended formats:
- articles up to 1,000 words that discuss concrete initiatives and their
objectives/achieved impact.
- essays of 500 words or less sharing "tips" or advice on how to design,
organize, implement, monitor or evaluate a program activity based on
personal experience.
- informational briefs of up to 250 words announcing new program
initiatives, objectives and activities.

Academic articles are not the focus of this publication.  However,
research that can be developed into an informational graphic may be
considered.  An informational graphic is a picture that attempts to tell
a story through facts and figures rather than prose.

Please consider including artwork, photographs, drawings and educational
or promotional materials to illustrate your submission. Artwork must be
dynamic, action-oriented and explained in a 1-2 sentence caption listing
date, place and details of the picture.

Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2003.

Authors must be available to respond to questions.  NGONews retains the
right to edit, revise or reject submissions.

All submissions must be submitted in Rich Text Format (.rtf) and must
include full contact details: name, title, name of non-governmental
organization, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail and Internet
address where available.

Please contact the editor at the coordinates below as soon as possible
if planning to submit a contribution:

Daniella Alcin
Communications Officer
Falk Miksa 30. 4/2
H-1044 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: +36.1.354.1230/31/32
Fax: +36.1.354.1233
E-mail: alcin@freedomhouse.hu
Internet: www.freedomhouse.org, www.ngonet.org

NGONews offers information, insight and analysis to thousands of
non-governmental actors, educators, policy-makers, and development
professionals based in CEE and fSU.

NGONews is a semi-annual publication produced by Freedom House Budapest
under the Regional Networking Project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for
International Development.  Freedom House (www.freedomhouse.org) is a
non-profit, nonpartisan organization working to advance political and
economic freedom worldwide.  Its Budapest-based Regional Networking
Project is designed to encourage cross border cooperation and
communication on democratization and economic development initiatives
among NGOs based in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former
Soviet Union (fSU).