PROJECT ON ETHNIC RELATIONS

The research carried out by Marius Cosmeanu, is part of the program �??Straightening the development capacity of local multiethnic communities for maintaining interethnic relations�?? stability�?? 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 (B�fdescu AYi Kivu, 2005).

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

4×4:Management models in Multiethnic Communities

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