MINELRES: ECMI Newsletter No. 15, June 2002

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: William McKinney <mckinney@ecmi.de>


Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the fifteenth 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 links in the ECMI Enriched Link Database
4. New acquisitions in the ECMI Library
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1. Activities
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ASN Special Convention, ECMI Panel on "Political Participation and the
Internationalization of Ethnic Minority Politics: the Case of the Roma
in Europe". Participants: Chair, Graham Holliday; Ilona Klimova; Peter
Vermeersch; Martin Kovats, Discussant, David Crowe, Forli, Italy, June
4-9.

ECMI Workshop "Legal Aspects of National Integration in Estonia and
Latvia", as part of the project "Accession to the EU and National
Integration in Estonia and Latvia",
Jurmala, Latvia, June 6-8.

Presentation of ECMI to minority representatives from Romania and
Ukraine, June 12.

Macedonia Coordinating Body Meeting, Skopje, June 14-16.

ECMI Project Power-Sharing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, third Working Group
meeting on Annex 8, June 21.

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

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2. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and 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.

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3. New links in the ECMI Enriched Link Database
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Humanitarian Intervention Reconsidered: Lessons from Kosovo
Julie Mertus/EES Meeting Report #234, June 6, 2001

Four main factors should be considered in assessing the legitimacy of
intervention in the name of humanitarianism: (i) the existence of
humanitarian motives; (ii) humanitarian grounds for intervention;
(iii) humanitarian means of intervention; and (iv) humanitarian
results. Debate over the NATO military operation in Kosovo has
concerned these factors.

http://www.ecmi.de/doc/info_links.html?=kid=10

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4. New acquisitions in the ECMI Library
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Reynolds, Andrew (ed.) The Architecture of Democracy: 
Constitutional Design, Conflict Management and Democracy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Democratic design is increasingly seen as the key to crafting
stability in the fragile states of the developing world. Getting the
democratic institutions right may not guarantee success but getting
them wrong has led to violent collapse in many socially divided
states. This book brings together both theory and case study evidence
to provide the reader with an excellent overview of the cutting edge
of academic debate and its practical implications for democratic
design in the 21st century.

We hope you enjoyed this fifteenth 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: mckinney@ecmi.de