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A
first regional workshop was held in Bucharest, 1-2 May, 1998, with the participation
of Ethnobarometer’s central staff, members of the Scientific Committee
and the Ethnobarometer’s correspondents (country associates) from Russia,
Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, to discuss
coordintion of activities and methodological issues..
The second regional workshop
was held in Ussita, Marche, Italy, 1-4 October, 1998, with the participation
of all the country associates, including those from Germany, France and Belgium.
The associates made a presentation of the issues and situation in their respective
countries and the discussion focussed in particular on ethnic tensions in Southeast
Europe.
After 1998 regional meetings
and workshops are being organized in connection with and as part of specific
research projects. More generally, the main focus has shifted from monitoring
and periodical reporting on the state of interethnic relations and migrant flows
in the various countries, to research.
The workshop held in
Sofia on 19-20 May, 2000 was devoted to the planning of the Ethnobarometer Programme
on Ethnic Politics in Southeast Europe and to a discussion of a paper on the
Bulgarian case drafted by Ethnobarometer’s correspondent in Sofia, Dobrinka
Kostova, of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The workshop held in Ohrid in
December 2000 analysed interethnic relations in Macedonia. Papers were presented
on each main issue by ethnic Macedonians and ethnic Albanians scholars and intellectuals,
and participants included, among others, members of Ethnobarometer’s Scientific
Committee (professors Mario Zucconi, Christian Giordano, and prof. Adrian Severin
(who spoke also in his capacity as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of
OSCE), Vetton Surroi from Kosovo, and former President of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov.
Three meetings have taken
place between 2004 and 2006 in connection with our work on Muslims communities
in Europe, and one in December 2006 in connection with our projects on multicultural
models in Europe.
An international
conference was organized in Rome on 24-26 June, 1999. The agenda dealt with:
1) the appraisal of existing concepts of racism, xenophobia and ethnic conflicts;
2) level of analysis and indicators for comparative research; 3) national traditions
in dealing with ethnic and migration issues. A selection of the papers presented
at the Conference were published in a special issue of JEMS, Journal of European
Ethnic and Migration Studies, April 2000.
Exchange
Program. In August 2002, Ethnobarometer was granted $125,000 by the US State
Department to fund a fellowship program, organized in collaboration with the
SSRC (New York) which allowed young Eastern European scholars working on issues
related to ethnic conflict to spend a 3-month period at an American research
center, and young American scholars interested in the same issues to spend also
3 months at research institutions based in Eastern Europe.