International Conference: Trans-ethnic Coalition-building within and across States
Hosted by the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University
7-9 January 2015
International actors, state governments, local authorities and non-governmental organizations across Europe, Eurasia and worldwide are today all engaged in institutional frameworks that seek to regulate conflicts and encourage intercultural dialogue and cooperation between different ethnicities living within the same state or sub-state region. At the same time, one can also point to many instances of coalition- building at the international level between activists drawn from different ethnicities debates, within still developing contexts of multi-level governance and international frameworks of human and minority rights. This multidisciplinary conference brings together academics and policy practitioners to explore both sets of practices of trans-ethnic coalition-building, across a range of geographic and political settings and from both a contemporary and historical perspective: which factors drive mobilization and interaction across ethnic boundaries, and on what issues? What are the frameworks in place, how do they function and what are the practices and outcomes to which they give rise? The conference is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, in conjunction with Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the European Centre for Minority Issues, the University of Glasgow Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Kazakhstan Academy of Public Administration.
Friday, January 9
University Main Building (Universitetshuset)
Panel XIII: Trans-Ethnic Organisational Co-Operation in Central and South-Eastern Europe (Hall 9)
Balázs Dobos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
'Together or separately?' The dynamics of trans-ethnic coalition politics in Hungary
Andras Mouraszki (Hungarian Academy of Science)
'Inter- and intra-ethnic cooperation among minority non-profit organizations in Eastern Central Europe: Case studies of Košice, Pécs and Timișoara’ '
More information and programme: http://www.ucrs.uu.se/transethnic-conference-2015+/