International Centre for Democratic Transition ICDT

http://www.icdt.hu/

Useful publications can be found here. The ICDT aims to collect the experience of democratic transitions and to share it with those who are determined to follow that path. Highly recommended.

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Tibetans / World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

http://www.minorityrights.org/?lid=5328

The history, culture and governance of Tibetan people can be found here. Highly recommended.

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Memorandum concerning the future survival of the Sorbian people in the Federal Republic of Germany / Domowina

http://www.domowina.sorben.com/pm/memorandum08en.htm

During their 1,400 year history the Lusatian Sorbs have had to endure social exclusion and prohibition by nationalist and chauvinistic forces as well as the consequences of an extensive mining policy, which has destroyed over a hundred villages since 1924. Last but not least they survived the take-over by the 'real existing' socialism of the GDR by adopting a position between conformity and resistance. Their numbers have steadily decreased as a result of assimilation and Germanization.

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OMC Bibliography / ed. by Jonathan Zeitlin / European Union Center of Excellence / University of Wisconsin at Madison

http://eucenter.wisc.edu/OMC/open12.html

An extensive bibliography on the OMC can be found here. Highly recommended as a starting point for research.

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The ROMAin Project

http://www.romainclusion.org/en/

The ROMAin Project was approved by the European Commission and has two central objectives: the first is to promote the social inclusion of Roma in Europe based on successful experiences. The second is innovation in the design and application of social inclusion policies with Roma through transnational cooperation. The ROMAin Project is formed by a multicultural team, both Roma and non-Roma from different European countries including Spain, Finland, Romania and Belgium. Links to further Roma projects can be found in the Data base of experiences in the left-hand navigation column on this page.

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Social Science Research Network / SSRN

http://www.ssrn.com

The SSRN electronic Library consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on more than 190,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection with more than 153,200 downloadable full text documents. Highly recommended.

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World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples / Minority Rights Group International

http://www.minorityrights.org/?lid=744

The Directory is a unique resource for practitioners, academics and journalists. It provides a country-by-country profile of the history and contemporary situation as they relate to minorities and indigenous peoples. Highly recommended.

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Pushing for Change? South East Europe's Minorities in the EU Progress Reports / 1 July 2008 / Snjezana Bokulic and Galina Kostadinova / Minority Rights Group International

http://www.minorityrights.org/6726/reports/pushing-for-change-south-east-europes-minorities-in-the-eu-progress-reports.html

Three crucial areas for minorities are considered here: participation in public life, employment and education. Lack of equality in these areas serves to keep minorities disadvantaged over generations: if this goes consistently unaddressed, the seeds for future conflict can begin to grow. Highly recommended.

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Commentary on the Effective Participation of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Cultural, Social and Economic Life and in Public Affairs/Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities/Council of Europe

http://tinyurl.com/6kct3lt

The purpose of this Commentary is to set out the Advisory Committee's interpretation of the provisions within the Framework Convention relating to the effective participation of persons belonging to national minorities, drawing on the Advisory Committee's country-specific Opinions adopted between 1999 and 2007.

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On the Effectiveness of the OSCE Minority Regime: Comparative Case Studies on Implementation of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE / Wolfgang Zellner / A Research Project of IFSH / April 1999

http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/publikationen/hb/hb111e.pdf

This project examines the effectiveness of the OSCE minority regime on the basis of the implementation of the recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities for Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, and Macedonia.

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