Pacific Centre for Participatory Democracy

http://www.pcpd.org.nz/

The primary purpose of the Pacific Centre for Participatory Democracy is to identify good practice and effective processes for increasing public access to and participation in democratic systems.

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A European Experiment in Protecting Cultural Rights, Will Kymlicka, Human Rights Dialogue, Carnegie Council, Spring 2005

http://www.cceia.org/resources/publications/dialogue/2_12/section_3/5150.html

While there has been broad support for the general principle that post-communist countries should meet minimum standards of minority rights, there has been far less agreement about what precisely these standards should be.

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Roma platform / European Commission Justice / European Union

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/roma/roma-platform/index_en.htm

The European Platform for Roma Inclusion brings together national governments, the EU, international organisations and Roma civil society representatives. It aims at stimulating cooperation and exchanges of experience along all stakeholders on successful Roma inclusion and integration policies and practices.

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Irredentism: An Inevitable Tendency of Ethnic Nationalism / Dimostenis Yagcioglu / 1996

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8945/irre.html

This is a useful introduction to the academic discussion of irredentism.

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REESWEB : The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

This site provides convenient access to websites in the Balkans, Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic countries, Armenia and Georgia.

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The Scout Report / Internet Scout Project/University of Wisconsin-Madison

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/

Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given area of study.

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Anti-Minority Incidents Continue in Vojvodina / January 2005 / Hungarian Human Rights Foundation

http://www.hhrf.org/hhrf/en/vojvodinareport-jan-2005.pdf

Harassment and physical attacks against minorities are all too regular occurrences in the province of Vojvodina. Numbering 300,000, and comprising 14 percent of the population, ethnic Hungarians are the largest national minority in this multiethnic region. The radicalization of Serbian society, especially within Vojvodina, has intensified since the national elections of Autumn 2003.

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International Research & Exchanges Board IREX

http://www.irex.org/

IREX is an international nonprofit organization specializing in education, independent media, Internet development and civil society programs. Through training, partnerships, education, research, and grant programs, IREX develops the capacity of individuals to contribute to their societies.

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Virtual Library on International Development / Canadian International Development Agency

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/virtual.nsf/

This web site is in English and in French. Informative links on conflict management, specific country and regional information can be found here.

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Minority Rights in the Baltics / Boris Tsilevich / Canadian Human Rights Foundation Newsletter

http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/articles/chrf-sar99-2-Tsilevic.html

The citizenship issue is the key to understanding the peculiarity of minority issues in the Baltics.

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