3. research centers, universities, projects operated by
them
ELTE-UNESCO MINORITY STUDIES PROGRAM
Established in 1992 as an international two-year post graduate MA program in
sociology, the Ethnic and Minority Studies Program commenced academic
operation in the Fall of 1993. In 1997 the Program was accepted as a member of
the UNESCO Chair Network, which means that it has become an independent
department at the Institute of Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest),
under the name of the ELTE-UNESCO Minority Studies Department.
The program aims include the following:
* to provide a systematic study of inter-ethnic relations, minority
problems and processes in post-communist societies within a comparative
perspective;
* to provide background in major trends in economy, politics, society, social
policy, social geography, and social psychology of the countries in transition
from state socialism;
* to train future policy makers or expert advisors in issues and conflicts
between regions, nations, ethnic groups, minorities, and majorities in various
parts of Europe;
* to train future scholars in sociology, socio-cultural anthropology,
political and ethnic studies, and social psychology, particularly those who
intend to carry out research or teach in and/or about East and Central Europe.
http://www.szoc.elte.hu/
Delphoi
Consulting
The aims of Delphoi Consulting, a Hungary based
research organization, are to investigate the social, educational and
economical conditions of the Romany population in Hungary, to analyze and
develop the most progressive models in education, employment and local
government systems. The web site contains publications of regional and
national researches, organizational development models in public schools,
demographic database and summaries of the relevant investigations ad
researches the educational and economical conditions of the Romany society in
the past ten years in Hungary.
www.delphoi.hu
Berghof Research Center for
Constructive Conflict Management
"The aim of the Berghof Center is to investigate constructive procedures
and models for dealing with ethno-political conflicts in Europe and to monitor
and support these where they are applied in practice. At the core of the
Center’s work lie the contributions made by civil society, development
co-operation, humanitarian aid, peace work, and human-rights activities, and
the influence of socio-cultural and psycho-social structures and mechanisms of
peace-making and peace-building in the OSCE region. The research aims both to
analyze longer-term macro-social and micro-social processes of peace-building
and also to assess the effectiveness of concepts and methods of intervention
used in current conflict management. In terms of geographic regions,
action-research in the area of the creation or reinforcement of peace
constituencies in 1998 was focused mainly on south-eastern Europe and the
Caucasus."[description from the site] A list of the Berghof Center?s
publications, together with the indexes of the "Berghof Report" and
"Berghof Working Papers" series and details of the conferences and
seminars (co-)organized by the Center, can be viewed on this webpages. This
website also contains a guide to peaceful conflict management organizations
and other bodies ordered by countries.
http://www.berghof-center.org/
DIANA
The Project Diana is an international archive of human rights legal
documentation. This site is maintained under the guidance of the Orville H.
Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. This
site is designed to be a reference tool for research in human rights law, with
online litigation documents and links to reference sites throughout the
Internet. Currently, Project Diana's archive includes legal briefs,
organization charters, treaty text, and bibliographies relating to a variety
of human rights issues and ongoing cases. [description from the site]
diana.law.yale.edu
Package
for Europe
Measures for Human Rights, Minority-Protection, Cultural Diversity and
Economic and Social Cohesion elaborated by the section "Ethnic Minorities
and Regional Autonomies" of the European Academy of Bolzano / Bozen. The
text of the Package on line on this site.
http://www.eurac.edu/publications/package.asp
Research
Center on Inter-ethnic Relations (CCRIT ) Cluj, Romania
"CCRIT was set up, as a non-profit
organization, basically a specialized center in gathering data, analyzing and
explaining ethnic phenomena and an NGO. Since 1993 - when the activity of this
organization began (it was formally recognized in court in 1994) members of
CCRIT were involved in researches and civic actions related to ethnic issues.
This Center deals especially with Transylvania, but the experience accumulated
can be generalized because, in fact, today, CCRIT represents one of the few
professional organizations dealing with ethnic problems in Romania."
This site contains description of the activity of CCRIT, of projects and
research, of the affiliated Documentation Center for Multiculturalism.
[description from the site]
www.ccrit.ro
CIEMEN
Centre Internacional Escarré per a les Minories Ètniques i Nacionals
- Catalania
CIEMEN focuses its activities on research: to promote and eventually leads
studies on minorities and marginalised peoples some of which have become
doctoral thesis; in agreement with the European Commission it is developing a
Data Bank on Linguistic Rights and Legislation (as a part of the "Mercator"
program); on documentation: it maintains a constantly updated Documentation
Centre with bibliographic material, references about other centers, journals,
unpublished texts, and so on, about national minorities, ethnic and
linguistic, and on the national question; it builds up a bibliographic and
document Data Base, it runs an Internet web page to provide users throughout
the world with guidance on other sources of information on its specific topic
that are in this communication network; on dissemination of information
through a journal, a newsletter, teaching materials, newspaper and magazine
articles on minorities and nations, books, exhibitions. The site contains the
Ethnic World Survey which aims to provide a tool for "search for
information on ethnic, native and nationalists affairs all over the
world." More or less general information is to be found broken down to
countries all over the world including Eastern and Central Europe.
[description from the site]
www.partal.com/ciemen/english/index.html
APSA
- SECTION ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS of the American Political Science Association
"At this site you'll find resources for teaching and research, including
directories of scholars and publishers, an e-mail discussion list, book
recommendations, selected links to other websites, sample syllabi, APSA
conference information, and much more." [description from: the site]
Contains a listing of publishers and editors in racial and ethnic politics.
www.providence.edu/polisci/rep/rep.htm
ETHNIC-L
.
ETHNIC-L is an interactive list of organized groups, associations and centers
interested in promoting research on ethnicity, nationalism, migration and
related problems. Members share information in order to support liaison and
cooperation between their groups. Although some discussion lists participate,
this is not a substantive discussion list, but it can support discourse on
organizational problems faced by members.
www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/welcome.htm
CEMES:
Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies.
CEMES is a 'not for profit' company founded in 1998. It specialises in
policy-relevant research, information and publishing on international
migration, ethnic relations and related topics in Western, Central and Eastern
Europe. Publishes the Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies and carries out
collaborative projects. This site contains links to different projects related
to ethnic relations in Europe, to Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
Some abstracts of articles available on-line, link to Newsletter on Ethnic and
Migration Studies (first issue available soon)
www.cemes.org
Raoul
Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden
"The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is
an academic institution founded in 1984 at Lund University, Sweden. The
purpose of the Institute is to promote research, training and academic
education in the fields of human rights and humanitarian law."
[description from the site] The site contains several human rights documents
on-line, a newsletter and information on the activities of the Institute,
training courses and other.
http://www.rwi.lu.se/
University
of Glasgow. South East European Research Unit "
The aim of the Unit is to instigate research and promote understanding of this
region with all its political, social and cultural diversities, through an
inter-disciplinary approach, and to administer projects and programmes to
facilitate research and understanding. SEERU is currently administering a
major EU project on Confidence Building in former Yugoslavia: Reconciliation
through Direct Communication and Interaction, entailing complex and
comprehensive activities, involving academics and others from the region
through seminars, conferences, workshops and language tuition."
[description from CCRIT web site]
www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/SEERU
LGI
Managing Multiethnic Communities
LGI was launched in January 1997 by the Board of the Open Society Institute,
Budapest, to replace the Institute of Local Government and Public Service. The
main aim of LGI is the forging of sustainable regional networks of specialists
and institutions involved in the study and reform of local government, in
order that countries can share expertise to contribute significantly to the
reform process in the region. An Innovative Practice Database, part of
Managing Multiethnic communities, contains on-line case studies on innovative
practices in the field of community relations in multiethnic environment and
local initiatives for ethnic conflict resolution.
lgi.osi.hu
INSTITUTE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES
– IES Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Institute for Ethnic Studies, founded
in 1925 as the Minority Institute, is the oldest European academic institution
specifically devoted to ethnic issues (see Part 4 of the Institute's report on
Slovenia). Today the Institute has a staff of 24. An important part of the
Institute is its INDOC centre, which has five full-time documentalists. The
collection of newspapers, covering seven decades, the historical and current
archives, and the library (about 30,000 books, 600,000 documented units)
represent a unique asset. The Institute’s primary activity is basic and
applied research drawing from several disciplines: ethnology, sociology,
linguistics, philosophy, law, political sciences, and history. Current
research projects include: ‘Ethnic dimension of integration processes in
plural societies and the management and resolution of conflicts’, ‘Ethnic
identity and interethnic relations in Slovene ethnic territory’ and ‘Interethnic
relations in the border territory between Slovenia and Croatia’. The
Institute publishes the journal Razprave in gradivo/Treatises of Documents,
the only Slovene periodical on ethnic issues. [description from:
Ethnobarometer Programme. Ethnic Studies in Europe: A Survey of Research
Centres and Resources] The site contains description of the activity of the
IES, list of publication, description of projects.
www.inv.si
Ethnobarometer
Programme
The Ethnobarometer Programme is a dedicated network of social scientists
providing independent and research-based reports on levels of racism,
xenophobia and ethnic conflict in selected countries of Central, Eastern and
Western Europe. It aims to monitor events, highlight areas of tension and
identify relevant topics for further research and inquiry. The Programme
serves as a tool for generating scientific information on inter-ethnic
relations where these are taken to encompass both territorial minorities and
communities of recent migrant origin. The site contains an on-line directory
of Research Centers and Resources. This directory is a unique report on the
developments in social science research in Europe in relation to issues of
inter-ethnic relations and human rights. The first working papers are
available on-line, the first report of the Programme and the country reports
for the monitored countries will also be available in the near future.
www.cemes.org
The
ERaM (Ethnicity, Racism and the Media) Programme
," located at the University of Bradford (UK) Department of Social and
Economic Studies, utilizes the new information technology of Email and the
World Wide Web to provide a global forum and focus for discussion, information
dissemination and research collaboration on issues of racism, ethnicity and
the media. ERaM is currently able to provide users with: The ‘ERaM-LIST’
email mailing list (provides ‘subscribers’ with a world-wide discussion
group in which messages sent by any one subscriber are automatically received
by all…enables the almost instantaneous exchange and debate of news,
information, policy documents, and analyses on current issues of ethnicity,
racism and the media (such as representations of ethnicity in the media,
ethnic minority media production, and the recruitment and employment of ethnic
minority persons in the media))
The 'ERaM-LIST-DIGEST email mailing list (Mailed out on a regular basis, the
ERaM-LIST-DIGEST is for those who wish to receive messages in one block rather
than individually.)
The ‘ERaM-RESEARCH-LIST’ email mailing list (provides a global research
network open only to those academics, media professionals and others engaged
in systematic research or professional practice in the area of ethnicity,
racism and the media)
The ERaM World Wide Web pages (provides regularly updated links to a
comprehensive list of WWW sites and indexes of resources pertaining to
ethnicity, racism and the media.)"
www.brad.ac.uk/research/eram/eram.html
ERCOMER
The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations exists to
promote the scientific study of migration (including asylum seekers), racism
and ethnicity, to support relevant research training, to disseminate
information and promote communication between researchers. Site contains: a
virtual library with links to research centers, research programs, research
related sites, academic departments and courses, journals and newsletters,
other publications, conferences and meetings, data archives, documentation
centers, mailing and discussion lists, government and international bodies,
NGO's, other sources of information and related WWW virtual libraries. It has
an on-line news letter and operates two mailing lists.
www.ercomer.org
GLS
- Gypsy Lore Society Cheverly, MD, USA
"The Gypsy Lore Society is dedicated to scholarly inquiry regarding Roma,
Sinti, Travellers and other peripatetic groups. Our online resources include
general information, an index of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, and
membership and contribution information." The site also contains links to
Gypsy-related sites on the net. [Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library]
http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
Gypsy
Collections at the University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool Special Collections & Archives, Liverpool, UK
"The Gypsy Collections at the University of
Liverpool comprise the archives of the Gypsy Lore Society and the Scott Macfie
Collection of books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, sound recordings and
press cuttings. The Collections are particularly strong in material relating
to the culture and language of Britain's Romany Gypsies. The webpages include
details of holdings in the Collections, bibliographies, photographs and
further links. The Collections' databases are searchable online."
[Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library]
sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/intro.htm
ENMISA
- Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies
Association. Contains on line syllabi of relevant courses to assist members in
developing courses on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration.
csf.Colorado.EDU/isa/enm
INCORE
- Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
Contains: - Conflict Data Service "The Conflict Data Service (CDS) is an
automatic entry point to an information network in the field of Conflict
Resolution and Ethnicity, providing quick and user-friendly access to quality
information. Our targeted audience includes: policy makers, especially in the
UN system and in the UN peacemaking and peace-keeping community; mediation
practitioners in conflict areas; academics working in countries experiencing
ethnic conflict, especially in developing countries, and the media. The CDS
also offers an extensive Information Bank, which acts as a host to information
on the various Academic Programs and Training Programs in the field, the
Organizations and Institutes concerned with the issues relating to conflict
and ethnicity, and a more General Guide to the subject. Additional resources
include a Bibliographic Database, and a Researcher Database."(source: the
web site)
- The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest which "publishes peer reviews of
recently published books, journal articles and research papers on the dynamics
and management of ethnic conflict."
- Publications and papers on-line concerning the issue of conflict resolution
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/
Center
for Political and Strategic Studies based in Washington
"is a non-profit organization dedicated to broadening Western knowledge
and understanding of complex international and domestic events. Through
publications, briefings, and symposia, The Center promotes informed debate on
the nature of international developments and assesses emerging trends to help
shape a more forward-looking approach to issues of vital long-term importance
to the United States. The Center provides an organizational vehicle for
scholars, but does not itself advocate specific policies or attempt to
influence legislation." (source: the site)
Provides a large amount of information concerning Russia and Central Asia
on-line including the full text of a volume of articles entitled
Central Asia: Conflict, Resolution, and Change and Demographic
Figures for the Russian Federation
www.cpss.org
Institute
for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy
Located at Boston University the ISCIP 'focuses on conflict-prone societies in
crisis, particularly Russia and other post-Soviet republics, with special
attention to destabilizing factors of a political, ethnic, and/or
international nature.' They provide substantial academic content including:
background information to their work, text of their bi-monthly publication
'Perspective' (also available by e-mail), full text of their bi-weekly
'Editorial Digest'; information on their Publication Series (the June 1996
edition in currently available in full text). The members of the research team
contribute biweekly analytical reviews of the developments in their regions
which are posted in the ‘The NIS Observed: An Analytical Review’.
[Description from: INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity
in Russia]
web.bu.edu/ISCIP
The
Ethnologue
The internet version of the Ethnologue database. This is a completely new
presentation of the entire text in a searchable data archive. It includes
Language Name Index and Language Family Index, as well as maps. Includes 112
language maps, 241 overviews of language situations by country, 682
bibliographic references 6,703 language descriptions. Language name index:
39,000+ alternate names and dialect names. Language family index: 99 language
family. (Source: the site )
www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries
Nationalism
Links - Sociological Research Online, Guildford, United Kingdom
"A link site at Sociological Research Online on nationalism and
ethnicity. The emphasis is illustrative rather than theoretical."
Illustrates nationalism and theories of nationalism through the www.
[Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library]
kennedy.soc.surrey.ac.uk/socresonline/2/1/natlinks.html
Genocide
Research Project
Home page of the Genocide Research Project. "The primary goals of this
site are to serve as a reference and contact site for scholars and students
pursuing research on genocide and international law to develop and maintain an
on-line, annotated bibliography of recent research publications on genocide to
increase the visibility of genocide and other crimes against humanity as
research topics for criminologists and criminal justice scholars"
"This site is continuously revised, updated, and expanded. Those
conducting research for teaching and scholarship will find the links pages
most useful. Conferences, calls for papers, and other announcements can be
found in News & Events. The on-line bibliography section contains three
bibliographies: one of recent books on genocide, one of recent articles and
reports and genocide, and a more restricted annotated bibliography."
Source: the site
www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide
Patrin
Home Page
"Everything you want to find
concerning the Roma around the world." Contains information on the
history of the Roma, Romani customs and traditions, Roma in culture and the
arts, Roma in the holocaust, list of Roma organizations, Romani rights and
links to organizations protecting Romani rights, and news connected to Roma.
Has a annotated bibliography of literature concerning Roma, and several
articles and books online. Contains links representing political, social and
cultural web sites from around the world. Patrin it is argues "supports
the role of Roma organizations in furthering the political, legal and civil
rights of all Roma" (source: the homepage). Patrin also operates a
mailing list.
www.geocities.com/~patrin/links.htm
Sergio
Franzese's O Vurdón
web site - bibliography on Roma issues
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/5847/english.htm
Minorities
at Risk Project
"Minorities at Risk is an independent, university-based research project
that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active
communal groups in the larger countries of the world. The project is designed
to provide information in standardized form that will contribute to the
understanding and peaceful accommodation of conflicts involving communal
groups. Selected project materials on 268 groups are available through this
WWW site for the information of researchers, students, public officials,
journalists, activists, and other interested individuals." The research
project Minorities at Risk monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of a
wide range of significant ethnopolitical groups in the world. Its 'group list'
contains information by country on the main ethnic minority groups, the
overviews and chronologies provided focusing more specifically on their
politically active communal organizations. Among other information provided is
a list of publications of the project and a dataset of variables on each
group. In this site "five kinds of information are provided on each of
268 politically-significant communal groups. - The group's name and estimated
population in 1995 in each country in which it lives in significant numbers.
- A background account of the group's characteristics and political setting.
These accounts vary widely in detail.
- A chronology of events initiated by or affecting the group from 1990 through
1995. Some of these chronologies begin earlier than 1990. In countries where
several groups are jointly involved in conflict, as in Lebanon, a single
country-wide chronology is provided.
- An assessment of prospects for change in the group's status and conflict in
the near future.
- A selective list of works consulted. Citations to specific journalistic
accounts used to construct chronologies are NOT given."
Updating for groups of former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to be expected
in 1999 (Source: the Minorities at risk site and the ERCOMER Virtual Library
site)
www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar
CRER
Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
The major academic body in the UK for the research and teaching of matters
concerning racism, migration and ethnic relations. The CRER site provides
information on the National Ethnic Minority Data Archive (NEMDA), on its
publications, contains the on/line catalog of the CRER Resources Center. The
CRER Resources Centre houses unique collections of primarily British non-book
materials covering a wide range of issues in ethnic relations. Currently
available are citations of pamphlets (mainly post-1987) and selected
periodical articles, largely from newsletters of interest and specialist
groups (mainly post-1994). An address list of pamphlet publishers and of
British interest or advocacy groups is under construction.
www.warwick.ac.uk/CRER/centre
ECMI:
European Center for Minority Issues
A German-Danish independent institution serving as a source of advice on
issues related to ethnic minorities and majorities in a European perspective,
conducting research on and contributing to the improvement of
minority-majority relations in those parts of Europe where ethnic tension and
ethnopolitical conflict prevails. The site contains detailed description of
the Center and its activities including transcripts of seminars, contains a
list of publications of the center some of which are available on-line. One of
ECMI's main functions is to provide information services on non-dominant
ethnic groups in Europe and their relationships to dominant groups. ECMI's aim
is to deal with minority issues of the past, present, and future. A
specialized multidisciplinary, and wherever feasible electronic Library on the
Ethnic Structure and Ethnopolitical Conflicts of Contemporary Europe,
including a reference section, is being built up. The ECMI Library catalogue
can be searched here on the ECMI website. A large number of annotated links to
European institutions, international organizations, networks, foundations,
NGOs, and databases are also available here. In addition, the Gateway to World
Libraries provides quick access to many internet libraries. Documentation is
another important aspect of ECMI information services. Important documents
will be scanned and made available on the ECMI website. [source: ERCOMER
Virtual Library and ECMI web site]
www.ecmi.de
Institute
for Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
A Moscow-based, government-controlled institute that has initiated several
projects on ethnic conflict management, early warning, migrations, and
nationalism, for the post-Soviet republics. The site is currently under
construction. At this stage the site contains information concerning the
research project "Monitoring of Ethnicity, Conflicts and Cohesion"
(supported by UNESCO programme "Management of Social
Transformations" (MOST)). Within the project's framework an early warning
model was designed. (project reports, background and potential, the model of
ethnological monitoring and summaries of case studies for several states.) In
early 1990s the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology set up a wide-range
e-mail early warning network across territory of the FSU and a special
database - the NetBase. The main task was to collect an up-to-date information
on regional ethnopolitical situation. The list of areas covered by the Network
contains more then 20 geographical locations in Caucasus, Baltic Region,
Belorussia, Moldova, Ukraine, countries of Middle Asia, Kazakhstan and many
subjects of Russian Federation. Information and methodology on this project
available on-line, presumably the database will also be available in Russian
and English if constructions are finished.
eawarn.tower.ras.ru/most/model.htm
Information
Center for Research on Racism D.I.R. e.V.
"Contrary to many other countries, racism in the Federal Republic of
Germany has been addressed primarily by nongovernmental institutions. For this
reason there is a relatively broad spectrum of initiatives, but little
exchange among the various groups. We believe that in the battle against
racism efforts should be pooled in order to further the development of
concepts and the exchange of ideas… Primary functions are: cooperation with
antiracist and antifascist groups working in all parts of the world; the
coordination and assistance of local initiatives; conducting seminars on
topics such as racism; the construction and constant support of a worldwide
accessible gopher service in the Internet which is to include documentation,
presentations of groups and their work, a calendar of events, bibliographies,
current projects, articles, etc.; the organization of an exchange of
preliminary results and final results of scientific study; publicity in the
media and our own publications."(source: the site) Mostly in German but
also some English language parts.
www.uni-marburg.de/dir/DIR/dirinfoe.html
Højskolen
Østersøen Minority Project
- Højskolen Østersøen is a modern folkhighschool in Danmark which arranges
Minority-courses for NGO-active young people from all over Europe. Besides
provision of information on the minority courses the site operates debate
forums on the following topics: reunion, on the concept of identity, on
Macedonia (how does the Balkan conflicts look from Macedonia?), on
Yugoslavia/Balkan lesson (What can we learn from Balkan/Yugoslavia? Do the
wars and the immediate situation show that a multinational political entity
lead to conflict, or does it show, that a multinational political entity is
the only possible way to live in peace?)
www.people.hojoster.dk/forum/forum.asp
Eurasia
Research Center
"The Eurasia Research Center Web Site features in depth research reports,
news analysis, and links to newspaper articles and wire service reports with
breaking news on the Balkans, Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus,
formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, Turkey,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Also featured are direct links to pages with
information on politics, issues of war and peace, culture, and social,
economic and human rights conditions in Post Cold War Eurasia. The Eurasia
Research Center EurasiaNews service provides special reports on crisis regions
of Eurasia such as Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosova, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Afghanistan,
Kurdistan, and Tajikistan." [description from the site]
eurasianews.com/erc/mainnofr.htm
Ethnopolicy
Working Group, Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn,
Pedagogical University, Estonia
This site contains some papers relating to minorities and minority policies in
Estonia and the important Estonian laws relating to the issue.
http://www.iiss.ee/eng/
ASEN
- The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK
ASEN is an interdisciplinary, non-political association for the study of
ethnicity and nationalism based at the London School of Economics. The web
site contains information on ASEN and a comprehensive listing of ethnicity and
nationalism conferences world-wide.(Description from ERCOMER Virtual Library)
www.lse.ac.uk/depts/european/ASEN
Centre
for Multiethnic Research Uppsala University,
Sweden
The Centre for Multiethnic Research is a cross-disciplinary forum for the
study of the cultural issues, social phenomena, and processes of change
related to life’s ethnic dimensions. This field of study also covers ethnic
relationships and processes in multicultural societies, as well as the effects
of international migration within cultures. The activities of the Centre focus
on research, postgraduate education, documentation of research results, and
public information. The Centre’s activities give emphasis primarily to the
cultural dimensions of ethnicity. Language, cultural, and religious issues are
a background, and the historical dimension is of central
importance.[Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library]
Key Word: Research Centers, several articles on-line
www.multietn.uu.se/eindex.html
CSS
- Center for Strategic Studies, Belgrade - Yugoslavia
It is an eminently non-governmental institute and think tank based in
Belgrade. Its research program insists on the main aspects of the newly
created international system and tectonic changes in international relations
provoked by the fall of totalitarian systems in the Eastern Europe. Impressed
by the low level of capabilities of Balkans societies to resolve their
differences in a democratic and non-violent way, CSS is particularly oriented
toward conflict-resolution studies, with special emphasis on peace research
and issues pertaining to the ethnic relations and ways toward democracy in the
East-European, the Balkans and Mediterranean countries...CSS Survey, the
monthly review of the Center for Strategic Studies Selection of full text
articles available on-line [Description from ERCOMER Virtual Library]
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2890/index.html
ECERS
- European Center for Ethnic, Regional and Sociological Studies University of
Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
The European Center for Ethnic, Regional and Sociological Studies is a member
of the University of Maribor that aims to perform research of interethnic
relations, regionalism and specific sociological issues, especially from the
point of view of recent political changes in Central and Eastern Europe; and
to study the activities of European international organizations and
institutions and non-governmental organizations regarding human rights,
protection of minorities and regionalism. Online resources include a short
description of the Center. [Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library ]
www.uni-mb.si/devetak.html
IMIN
- Institut za Migracije i Narodnosti / Institute for Migration and Ethnic
Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies is a scientific research
institution dealing with migration and ethnicity. It was founded in 1967 as
the Centre for Migration Studies. Since 1985 a scientific quarterly journal
has been published by the Institute as well as other publications (books,
papers etc.). The Institute has a specialist library and archive funds which
contain significant historical records on Croatian emigration. On-line
services include: information on research projects, meetings, statistical data
and other documents on migration and ethnicity, summaries of issues of
Migration Themes, the journal published by the Institute. [Description from:
ERCOMER Virtual Library]
pubwww.srce.hr/migra/imin.htm
The
Metropolis Project, Canada
Metropolis is a cooperative, international research initiative created to
examine immigrant integration and the effects of international migration on
urban centres. The project aims to integrate research more systematically into
policy development and to develop an inventory of international best
practices. The web site contains information on the project and the network.
It aims to become a major platform for exchange of information in the field.
[Description from: ERCOMER Virtual Library]
http://www.international.metropolis.net/main_e.html
School
of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
Description of the activities and resources available at SSEES and a directory
of internet resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.
www.ssees.ac.uk/index.htm
