MIRICO – Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic Conflicts

Final Conference

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main - Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order

24-25 October 2008

Venue

Aula

Mertonstrasse 17-21

(Central Building of Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main Bockenheim Campus)

AGENDA

Friday, 24 October 2008

09:00-09:30Welcome Address and Introduction

Rainer Hofmann, University of Frankfurt am Main

Joseph Marko, University of Graz – European Academy Bozen

09:30-11:00Panel 1. Re-thinking Minority Rights Accommodation in the Context of Crisis Management

Chair: Rainer Hofmann, University of Frankfurt am Main

Antonija Petričušić, University of Graz, “Minority Protection in South-East Europe – Lessons to be Learned”

Angelika Nußberger and Tomasz Milej, UniversityofCologne, "‘The Others’: Peace on the Basis of Discrimination”

Snežana Trifunovska, Radboud University Nijmegen, “Minorities in Kosovo - Who Should and Will Protect Them in the Future?”

11:00-11:30Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Panel 2. Kosovo and the Consequences for the Right to Self-Determination

Chair: Marc Weller, University of Cambridge – European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg

Rainer Hofmann, University of Frankfurt am Main, “The Independence of Kosovo under International Law”

Alexandre Strokanov, Lyndon State College, “Kosovo right to Self-Determination as a precedent for future recognition of the unrecognized but really existing states: Pridnestrovie, Abkhazia, Southern Ossetia”

Ugo Caruso, University of Frankfurt am Main, “‘New realities on the ground’: the International Community in Kosovo”

13:00-14:30Lunch Break

14:30-15:30Panel 3. The European Union as a Conflict Manager in the Former Soviet

Union

Chair: Angelika Nußberger,UniversityofCologne

Benedikt Harzl, European Academy Bozen, “Increasing Awareness – The EU

in the South Caucasus”

Richard Whitman, University of Bath, and Stefan Wolff, University of Nottingham, “The EU and the Secessionist Movements in the Former Soviet Union – ENP and CFSP as Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution”

15:30-16:00Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Panel 4. Re-active vs. Pro-active Crisis Management – The European Union in South Eastern Europe.

Chair: Carmen Gebhard, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Claire Gordon, London School of Economics and Political Science, “The Stabilization and Association Process in the Western Balkans: an effective instrument of conflict management?”

Annemarie Peen Rodt and Stefan Wolff, University of Nottingham, “The reactive conflict management of the EU in the Western Balkans”

17:00-18:00 Conclusion of the First Day

20:00Reception sponsored by the University for Frankfurt am Main, Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order

Saturday, 25 October 2008

09:30-11:00 Panel 5. Achieving Democratic Governance through Post-Conflict

Reconstruction: A Role fort he European Union?

Chair: Mitja Zagar, University of Ljubljana

Leopold Maurer, Head of EU-Delegation, Podgorica, “The Role of the EU from an Inside Perspective”

Drino Galičić, Cabinet of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, “The OHR between Bonn Powers and Ownership: How to Foster Rule of Law and Accountability”

Steven Hill, Deputy Head, Legal Unit International Civilian Office/European Union Special Representative “How to Foster Rule of Law and Accountability: The Case of Kosovo”

11:00-11:30Coffee Break

11:30-13:00Panel 6. Institution-building

Chair: Joseph Marko, University of Graz – European Academy Bozen

Anika Bishka, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Building Civic Nations in Western Balkans - the Role of the EU”

Alice Engl, European Academy Bozen, “Trans-boundary Cooperation as a Means to Enhance Institution-building – the Role of the EU”

Zoran Ilievski, Ss.Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, “Conflict Resolution in the Balkans: Successes and Failures of Complex Power Sharing”

13:00-14:00Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Panel 7. Re-constructing National Identities

Chair: Susan Woodward, City University of New York

Claudia Lichnofsky, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, “Roma, Ashkali and Balkan-Egyptians - caught between two stools”

Dragan Popadić, University of Belgrade, "Building up European Identity: Starting from Chimney Smoke"

Branislav Radeljić, Goldsmiths University of London, “Kosovo’s Indepen-

dence: Regional Implications”

15:30-16:00Coffee Break

16:00-17:00Final Conclusions:

Rainer Hofmann, Joseph Marko, Stefan Wolff, Mitja Zagar

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