Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans and its Regional Context

The Conference will have two plenary sessions (opening and closing) and around 50 panels based on registered papers.

The Conference will be attended by around 200 international, regional and local scholars, experts, policy makers and students working on nationalism and the Balkans.

In addition to the geographical focus on the Balkans, priority topics of the Conference include the theoretical and methodological framework for the research and understanding of globalization, nationalism and ethnic conflict and minority rights.

The Conference will have a dual focus on both general topics related to the study of nationalism and more specifically on Southeastern Europe.

Topics of the Conference will be specified based on submitted papers and panels and suggestions of ASN Presidency. The priority topics of the Conference will be:

- Theoretical and methodological framework for the research and understanding of globalization, nationalism and ethnic conflict.
- The development of national identity and the challenges of globalization.
- Origins, elements and forms of ethno-nationalism at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
- Anatomy and genesis of ethnic conflicts: national, regional and global aspects.
- Political, religious and national extremism, violence and terrorism.
- Globalization, ethnic conflicts and organized crime, with special emphasis on illegal migration.
- Conflict prevention and dealing with consequences of conflict.
- Lessons learned from EU and UN peace missions.
- Human rights and democracy at preventing, resolving and dealing with the consequences of conflict, including supporting measures facilitating peaceful conciliation of group interests.
- Support and assistance to the victims of human rights violation during the conflicts.
- Promotion and protection of minority rights.
- Measures to combat racism and xenophobia, and to protect minorities and indigenous peoples.
- Lessons learned from the state-building experience in the former Yugoslavia.
- Post-conflict multiethnic states in the Balkans.
- Nationalism and the challenge of democratization.
- Is post-communism still a relevant category for the study of nationalism?


Conference web-site




INFO:
Forum for Ethnic Relations
Secretary
Slobodan Boskovic
Email: ferbgd@EUnet.yu