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L’Istituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica

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Comune di Forlì - Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali

è lieto di invitarvi alla

Conferenza finale del Progetto Europeo

Luogo: Sala Randi, Comune di Forlì, via delle Torri n.13

Data: Mercoledì 25 novembre 2015, dalle 15,00 alle 17,00

Introduzione e saluti

Presentazione dell’istituto dell’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica

Presentazione dei risultati del Progetto di&di;

Interverranno:

Dott. Raoul Mosconi, Assessore alle Politiche sociali

Prof. Stefano Bianchini, Co-direttore dell'Istituto per l'europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica

Rappresentanza dal Punto Europa - Forlì (da definire)

21th CEI International Summer School

Managing Diversities in Democracy: Minorities, Territories, Self- Determination

1st - 13th September 2015, Bertinoro and Santa Sofia, Italy

The Istituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica (IECOB) is glad to announce the 21th CEI International Summer School ”Managing Diversities in Democracy: Minorities, Territories, Self- Determination”, organized in cooperation with the European Regional Master’s Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe (ERMA) and sponsored by the Central European Initiative (CEI). The summer school will take place at the premises of the University of Bologna’s residential center in Santa Sofia (Forlì) from the 1st to the 13th of September.

Description Activities

The 21^st CEI International Summer School has been designed to address and discuss the challenges faced by the European and Nation-State governance in relation to Enlargement and Integration policies and the role played by the attractiveness of Self-Determination, territoriality/non territoriality, Multi-Ethnic societies in contexts culturally encompassed in the democratic framework and aimed to reinforce social and cultural inclusion by carrying out diversity management strategies. The school will also focus on the new conceptualizations (such as métissages, cultural nomadism, interculturality, diversity management and deliberation) and existing legal, social and cultural instruments for the protection of minorities in the broader sense. The CEI instrument for the Protection of Minority Rights is a crucial reference in this regard, and its content will be scrutinized during School sessions, by stimulating an exchange of ideas between generations, between youngsters and experts. We expect to outline potential new actions against discriminations of diversities and in support of reconciliation, in the perspective of a common European citizenship within the framework of the European Enlargement policies and in relation to the recent political crisis in Ukraine (but potentially also in other European contexts).

Three pillars have been identified as School focus: (1) the relations between Minorities, Territorial integrity and inviolability, Self-determination rights; (2) the role of kin-states and their minorities in the process of reconciliation and memory reconstruction; (3) the challenges to democracy stemming from diversities, their management, and in relation to the consolidation of a common European citizenship. The program will be reinforced by involving participants from other organizations (i.e. EU, Council of Europe and OSCE) active in the field of minority protection in Europe.

The School will provide frontal lessons, class discussions, collective presentations and round tables with a strong interdisciplinary approach. Simulations will be carried out on Innovation and Creativity in Problem Solving, Developing a Multi-Cultural Mindset and Deliberative democracy – developing tools for a new approach to governance and decision making.

10/11 September - International Conference - Envisioning Moving Frontiers. Ukraine & The Balkans.

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Official language of the School is English.

Contributors

Maria Grazia Bartolini, University of Milan, Italy
Nina Beljaeva, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, Forlì-Campus
Viktor Bojkov, European Commission, Brussels
Giovanna Brogi, University of Milan
Ilcho Cetvanoski, Index for Censorship, Macedonia
Rozita Dimova, University of Ghent, Belgium
Mychajlo Glubokyi, Izolyatsia. Platform of Cultural Initatives, Donec’k
Yarina Grusha, Ukrainian Crisis Media Center
Dušan Janjić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dejan Jović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Kajinić, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus
Marija Krstić, European Center for Minority Issues, Kosovo
Paolo Martino, A Buon Diritto/Amnesty International, Italy
Mychajlo Minakov, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Institute, Kyiv
Rahell Ali Mohammad, A Buon Diritto/Amnesty International, Italy
Julie Mostov, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Elvira Mujčić, Bosnian-Italian writer
Asim Mujkić, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aleksej Nikitin, Ukrainian Center PEN International, Kyiv
Jelena Petrović, Novi Sad School of Journalism, Serbia
Francesco Privitera, University of Bologna, Forlì-Campus
Marco Puleri, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus
Adriano Remiddi, IECOB - University of Bologna
Julia Sardelić, European University Institute, Italy
Elena Stjazhkina, University of Donec’k

More information on www.pecob.eu.

Official Program

Information and Contacts

CEI International Summer School Coordinator

Prof. Stefano Bianchini (e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Prof. Francesco Privitera (e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe, University of Bologna
Corso della Repubblica 117, 47121 Forlì, Italy
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