[Discussion] CfP: Ethnocentrism, Minority Rights and Civil Society in the Balkans

[Gonul Pultar]

You are invited to contribute to the following proposed collection
(and would you please circulate this notice to any interested
colleagues and students).

Ethnocentrism, Minority Rights and Civil Society in the Balkans

The collection will offer social science approaches to understanding the
connections and inter-relationships between ethnocentrism, minority rights
and the objective of building an "open" or "civil" society in the Balkans.

Issues of 'identity, 'cultural differences', 'gender' and 'community
will be analysed from historical and sociological perspectives to
facilitate an understanding of the problems facing Balkan peoples
as they engage in social reconstruction.  The role of the relevant
international peace-keeping objectives of the United Nations, UNHCR,
the OSCE, the European Union and the World Bank, in building a
multi-ethnic civil society will be considered.

So far accepted chapters include:

Ismail Hasani: Title tba - Albanian culture, religion and nationalism

Fadil Maloku: Title tba - multi-ethnic conflict and resolution

Azra Hromadzic and Arancha Garcia: War Rapes and Female Voices:
from individual suffering to collective activism

Venetia Evergeti: Muslim minorities of Western Thrace in the
Northern parts of Greece; social processes of ethnic identity formation
within minority communities.

Lynne Christine Alice: Hatred and the politics of nation-building

Lynne Star: Title tba, Contemporary Balkan film-making and
reconstruction of civil society.


It is intended that there will be a fully funded seminar to present
and discuss the chapters sometime in the 2003-04 academic year,
in Bulgaria.

Offers of papers would be directed to : Prof Dr Ismail Hasani and
Prof Dr Lynne Alice at <lynnealice@ipko.org>