OSCE and Minorities: Assessment and Prospects
Place : Warsaw
Date : 7 - 8 april 2006
Contributors : 21, for each debate, one presentation, two disputants
Time : Three half days
Organisation pool : Centre Thucydide - Paris / International Relations Institute of Warsaw
First half day : 7 april 2006 (9 am - 1 pm)
9 am - 9.30 pm : Opening address :
- Stanislaw Parzymies, International relations institute, Warsaw
- Serge Sur, Thucydide Centre, Panthéon-Assas University
- Malgorzata Gersdorf, Vice-President Warsaw University
- Krzysztof Drzewicki, Senior Legal Adviser of the High-Commissioner on National minorities Office
- Christoph Strohal, Office for democratic institutions and Human rights (ODIHR) Director
First theme : Minority issue in the OSCE area
Session 1. (9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.) Minority issue in postcomunist Europe
- Chairman : Adam Rotfeld
- Presentation : Stanislaw Pawlak
- Discussants : Levente Salat and Milan Milanov
- General discussion
10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. : Coffee break
Session 2. (11.15 a.m. - 12. 30 a.m.) State of minority issue in Western Europe
- Chairman : Ewa Chylinski
- Presentation : Alberto Perez Calvo
- Discussants : André Liebich and Lionel Arnaud
- General discussion
Second half day: 7 april 2006 (2.30 pm - 6.15 pm)
First theme : Minority issue in the OSCE area
Session 3. (2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.) Minorities in North America area
- Chairman : Ednan Agaev
- Presentation : Will Kymlicka
- Discussants: Cassandra Butts and Guillaume Parmentier
- General discussion
Session 4. (3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.) Resurgence of Minority issue in post Soviet space
- Chairman : Joseph Marko
- Presentation : Jonathan Wheatley
- Discussants : Ednan Agaev and Oleh Protsyk
- General discussion
4.30 p.m. - 5 p.m. : Coffee break
Second theme : Regulation tools of the OSCE
Session 5. (5 p.m. - 6.15 p.m.) Evolution of the OSCE normative response : from collective to individual rights
- Chairman : Will Kymlicka
- Presentation : Janus Symonides
- Discussants : Boriss Cilevics and Gabriel Andreescu
- General discussion
Third half day : 8 april 2006 (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Second theme : Regulation tools of the OSCE
Session 6. (9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m.) Action tool and effectiveness of the High-Commissioner and the OSCE field missions
- Chairman : Liviu Bota
- Presentation : Victor-Yves Ghebali
- Discussants : Wolfgang Zellner and Harald Schenker
10.15 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. : Coffee Break
Third theme : Perspectives on the role of the OSCE in regulating minority issue
Session 7. (10.45 a.m. - 12.15 a.m.) The OSCE and the other international institutions - complementarity, concurrence, co-operation
- Chairman : Wolfgang Zellner
- Presentation : Walter Kemp
- Discussants : Liviu Bota and Ewa Chylinski
12.15 a.m. - 12.30 a.m.: Conclusion :
- Serge Sur, Centre Thucydide, Paris