PROJECT ON ETHNIC RELATIONS

This book is a challenge launched by the most valuable specialists from the State Secretary Office within the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, (enforced by the personnel from Regional Centre PER) which deals with education designated to national minorities in national minority languages from Romania. The authors of this book try to find the solutions for systematic orientation of the education towards natural approach of an intercultural constituent.
The paper can be also considered a comparison instrument for understanding the others. The book can create curiosity for everything that belongs to another cultural and/or linguistic space.

Gabriella PA!sztor

State Secretary
Ministry of Education and Research

Foreward, Gabriella PA!sztor, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Research

Chapter III equality of chances in education through teachers training and educational policies, Maria Koreck, Program Manager, PER Regional Center

The research carried out by Marius Cosmeanu, is part of the program â??Straightening the development capacity of local multiethnic communities for maintaining interethnic relationsâ?? stabilityâ?? initiated by PER Regional Center and deployed in collaboration with the Department for Interethnic Relations, Government of Romania.

Coordinator: Koreck Maria

After 20 years (introduction)
The experience gained during almost two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall
shows that the transition from Communism to a democratic system with a free
market economy is a process not quite easily manageable. This is due to numerous
and complex reasons, one of them being the degree of ethic heterogeneity. Many
authors who are supporting this thesis suggest that the pace of the reforms in
some of the post Communist societies in Central and Eastern Europe has been
slower than the expected during the enthusiastic ending of 1989; this being
mainly due to a rather higher proportion of ethnical minorities. One of their
arguments holds that ethnical cleavage allows some political actors to shift public
attention from social, economic and political reforms related debates (indeed
necessary but not rewarding electorally speaking) to debates regarding the rights
of the ethnical minorities (BÄfdescu AYi Kivu, 2005).

Please find bellow the research, the text in English follows the text in Romanian.

4×4:Management models in Multiethnic Communities

Introduction to the History of National Minorities from Romania

The interethnical disturbances can be caused on many occasions by a simple lack of knowledge of the â??otherâ??. The History of the National Minorities from Romania is a guidbook designated firstly to History teachers and with the aim of eliminating this lack of knowldege by offering information on national minorities from Romania, looking to strenghten the respect for diversity in the complex reality context of nowadays society represented by co-existance of different ethical and religious identities. Continue here

1.   The European Union and its neighborhood policy, from the prospective of interethnic relations. (Regional conferences follow up round tables).
1.1.   The first activity under this program was the conference â??History, Identity and Interethnic Respect in the Context of European Neighborhood Policyâ??.
The conference was organized in Bucharest, on March 19, 2007 and had on the agenda the main issues:
-Â Â Â How can the same history generate different identities?
-Â Â Â How can an â?oobjective historyâ?? generate more â?osubjective historiesâ???
-Â Â Â Which are the elements of common history that can separate or unify different ethno-cultural communities?
-Â Â Â How can we approach a European identity from the historic and identity prospective in Romania and the Republic of Moldova?
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It is with great pleasure that the Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Bucharest, PER in Princeton, New Jersey, USA and the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages announce the roundtable discussion entitled Towards a functioning minority protection in the European Union â?? The need for a long-term strategy on the basis of the European Parliament resolution organized on November 5, 2008, in the European Parliament, in Brussels. The roundtable brought together members of the European Parliament, representatives of EU institutions, Member State Governments, intergovernmental organizations and minority policy experts.

As part of the conference series entitled New Approaches to the Issue of Minorities in the European Union launched in December 2007, the roundtable addressed the issue of preparing a long-term strategy of minority protection in the European Union. More specifically, the discussion took up, among other subjects, policy recommendations towards the realization of such a strategy on the basis of a European Parliament resolution, the necessary instruments of such a strategy, as well as the potential implementing agents of a minority protections system in the European Union.