Minority Rights: The Watershed Between Ethnic Cleansing and Multicultural Coexistence

This course is archived
Course date
July 1–12, 1996
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person
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Co-directors
Nenad Dimitrijevic
Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Tibor Varady
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty
Gudmundur Alfredsson
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden
Anna-Maria Biro
Minority Rights Group, Budapest, Hungary
Guy Haarscher
Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Geza Hercegh
International Court of Justice, the Hague, the Netherlands
Dejan Janca
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Laslo Jozsa
Attorney, Subotica, Yugoslavia
Janos Kis
Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Gyorgy Konrad
Writer, Budapest, Hungary
Tamas Korhecz
"Equality", Subotica, Yugoslavia
Zoran Pajic
University of London, United Kingdom
Alan Philip
Minority Rights Group, London, United Kingdom
Andras Sajo
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

The objective of this two-week course is to explore this complex theme by combining different, yet closely related conceptual standpoints of several scientific subfields:
 

  • legal and political philosophy
  • constitutional law
  • international law
  • sociology and political science
     

The main topics of the course are:
 

  • Present Options in Ethnically Diverse States, Individual versus Collective Rights, Workshop on Minority Rights in Vojvodina
  • Individual versus Collective Rights 
  • The Position of Minority Rights Within the Realm of Human Rights
  • The International and European Framework of Minority Rights 
  • Various Forms of Minority Autonomies in Europe
  • Case Study: The Workshop on Minority Rights in Vojvodina

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