Organised by:
Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín
Forum Minority Research Institute

Location:
House of the Hungarian Culture (Magyar Kultúra Háza),
H-1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér 6,
tel.: (36-1) 224-8100, fax: 36-1-375-1886

Date:
15 - 16 May 2008

PROGRAMME

15 May, 2008 (Thursday)

13.00 - 13.30
Arrival and registration of participants

13.30 - 13.50
Opening: Kálmán Petõcz, Director for International Cooperation of FKI, former ambassador of the SR at Geneva

14.00 - 15.30
Participation and integration of Roma:
Chairperson: Elena Gallová-Kriglerová, Centre for Research of Ethnicity & Culture, Slovakia
Péter Hunèík, psychiatrist, Forum Institute, Slovakia
Balázs Majtényi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Klára Orgovánová, Roma Institute, former Plenipotentiary for Roma Issues Slovakia
Ms. Magdalena Kouneva, Minority Research Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria
Discussion

15.30 - 16.00
Coffee break

16.00 - 18.00
Ukraine, Romania and Moldova: Minority participation, case studies
Chairperson: Csilla Fedinec, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Levente Salat, Executive President, Intercultural Resource Centre, Cluj
Mihály Tóth, Senior Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev
Yulia Tyshchenko, Head of the UCIPR Board, Kiev
Oleg Smirnov, Head of IDCIR, Simferopol
Discussion

18.30
Dinner

16 May, 2008 (Friday)

08.30 - 10.15
Effective participation of minorities in decision-making processes. What is the content of this right? Relationship between civic participation and specific minority participation.
Chairperson: Kálmán Petõcz, Director for Intl. Cooperation, FKI
Gáspár Bíró, professor, ELTE University, Budapest
László Öllös, President of FKI, political analyst, Nitra University
Ivo Pospíšil, Masaryk University, Constitutional Court, Brno, Czech Republic
Balázs Vizi, international lawyer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Discussion

10.15 - 10.45
Coffee break

10.45 - 12.30
Minorities and management of interethnic relations in former Yugoslavia
Chairperson: Eliška Sláviková, Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava
József Juhász, ELTE University, Budapest
Representatives of the Kosovar Albanian and Serb communities, tbc
Representatives of the B&H ethnic communities, tbc
Representative from Macedonia, tbc.
Discussion

12.30 - 14.00
Lunch

14.00 - 16.00
Continuation of the discussion on former Yugoslavia, general discussion
Chairman: Kálmán Petõcz

16.00
Closing

  

Sponsors:
International Visegrad Fund
Open Society Institute East/East Program

Partners:
Reasearch Institute of Slovaks in Hungary, Békéscsaba
Institute of Slavic and East-European Studies, Charles University, Prague
Centre for Research of Ethnicity and Culture, Bratislava