The workshop is organised in the frame of the project Ethnic Stability - Ethnic Changes (Management of Ethnically Diverse Societies)

 

Location: Forum Minority Research Institute (FKI), 931 01 Šamorín, Parková 4

  

Programme

10 April, 2008 (Thursday)

13.00-13.30
Arrival and registration of participants

13.30-13.40
Opening
Kálmán Petõcz, Director for International Cooperation of FKI, former ambassador of the SR at Geneva

13.40-15.30
Discussion
National minorities: status quo vs. 'right to develop their identiy' and 'right to participation'
Miroslav Kusý, professor, UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education, Bratislava; Dániel Hegedûs, international lawyer, Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research, Budapest; Kálmán Petõcz, Director for International Cooperation of FKI

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-18.00
Discussion
Baltic states and Ukraine: who is to be protected? Specificity of interethnic relations in states that liberated themselves from the Soviet regime
Kristiina Kallas, Development Director, Institute of Baltic Studies, Tartu; Oleg Smirnov, the Head of the Integration and Development Center for Information and Research, Kijev

18.30
Dinner (Restaurant Tornyos, next to FKI)

11 April 2008 (Friday)

09.00-10.30
Discussion
Effective participation of minorities in decision-making processes. What is the content of this right? Relationship between civic participation and specific minority participation.
László Öllös, President of FKI, political analyst, Nitra University; Balázs Vizi, international lawyer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
  
10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-12.30
Discussion
Hungarian and Slovak minorities, right to effective participation I.
Ján Fúzik, Chairman, Slovak National Self-Government in Hungary; Štefan Šutaj, professor, Prešov University, Institute of Social Sciences, SAS, Košice

12.30-14.00
Obed (Reštaurácia Tornyos)

14.00-15.30
Discussion
Hungarian and Slovak minorities, right to effective participation II.
László Józsa, Chairman, Hungarian National Committee, Subotica; Vojtech Èelko, historian, Charles University, Prague

15.30-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-17.30
General discussion

17.30 
Closing

18.30 
Dinner

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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