MINELRES: ECMI Newsletter No. 19

[MINELRES moderator]

William McKinney <mckinney@ecmi.de>


Subject: ECMI Newsletter No. 19,
October 2002

Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of the ECMI
Newsletter, and thank you for your interest.

TOPICS

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1. New ECMI staff members
2. New Representatives on ECMI Board
3. Activities
4. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
5. New ECMI publications
6. JEMIE Special Focus on Developments in Non-Discrimination Legislation
7. Electronic Map of Ethnopolitical Conflict - Results of Parliamentary
Elections held on September 15 in Republic of Macedonia
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1. New ECMI staff members
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ECMI is delighted to welcome 2 new staff members. Tom Trier joined the
ECMI staff in October as Senior Research Associate. With a background in
social anthropology, he focuses on ethnonational and migration issues in
Eastern Europe and the CIS, particularly in the Caucasus region. He
coordinates ECMI activities in the Caucasus and conducts research on
interethnic and minority-state relations in the region. Eben Friedman 
joined the ECMI staff as Research Associate in October. He holds an MA
in political science from the Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from
the University of California, San Diego. His research interests have
focused on policy toward Roms and more broadly on interethnic relations
in post-Communist Slovakia and Macedonia. At ECMI, he will devote his
work to ethnonational issues in the Balkans, particularly in Macedonia
and Montenegro.

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2. New ECMI Board Members
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ECMI is pleased to announce the addition of 2 new representatives to its
Board. Gunilla Carlsson is a Member of the Swedish Parliament and of the
European Parliament. Eva Kjer Hansen is a Member of the Danish
Parliament and of the European Parliament. 

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

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3. Activities
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Taking Ownership of Dayton: ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and
Herzegovina: Implementation
Workshop I - Development of a Professional Experts Association in
Support of "Annex 8" - Implementation and Cultural Heritage Protection
and Promotion in  Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
October 4.

ECMI Kosovo/a Civil Society Project, workshop of  the Standing Technical
Working Group on "Judicial Systems and Human Rights", Pristina,
Kosovo/a, October 12.

ECMI Montenegro Negotiation and Capacity Building Project, working table
III: "Regional Economic Development", Montenegro, October 18.

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


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4. Upcoming ECMI Conferences and Activities
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Revolving Seminar at the Danish Institute of Border Regions Studies,
Aabenraa, November 11.

ECMI - Konrad Adenauer Foundation Round Table "Minorities in
Democracies", South Eastern University, Tetovo, Macedonia, November 23.

ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the
Republic of Macedonia: Annual General Meeting, Skopje, Macedonia,
November 24-25.

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

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5. 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 Working Paper #16
Morawa, Alexander H.E.
Minority Languages and Public Administration - A Comment on Issues
Raised in Diergaardt et al. v. Namibia. October 2000, 27 pp., appendix.

ECMI Report #34
Curis, Robert 
"Kosovo/a Standing Technical Working Group. Ninth Meeting Health and
Social Welfare", UN Headquarters, Pristina, 6 July 2002. October 2002,
18 pp., appendix.

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6. JEMIE Special Focus on Developments in 
   Non-Discrimination Legislation
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Are non-discrimination rules a proper tool for advancing minority rights
and is there even such a thing as an enforceable right to be different
in a democratic state? What role, if any, does the concept of equality
play in advancing minority rights protection and how far should the law
seek to implement formal or material equality?

This Special Focus seeks to provide answers to these questions as well
as identify emerging approaches to legislating non-discrimination and
equality. The authors examine new international legal rules (such as the
12th Additional Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights) and
current trends in international and comparative constitutional
jurisprudence and practice. Apart from legal issues, authors also look
at the political consequence of advancing non-discrimination
legislation, particularly with respect to minority-majority relations.

http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/specialfocus.html

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7. Electronic Map of Ethnopolitical Conflict-
   Results of September 15 Parliamentary Elections
   in Republic of Macedonia

Complete results and a summary of key aspects of the September 15
Parliamentary elections in the Republic
of Macedonia can be found here.

http://www.ecmi.de/emap/mk_B04.html


We hope you have enjoyed this nineteenth 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