EAWARN Seminars
Seminars and workshops are one of the most important activities of EAWARN. These useful meetings not only provide opportunities for experts training and discussing specific problems but serve as critical foundation for more enduring and real ties between members of the virtual community of experts dispersed over the vast geographic territory of post-Soviet countries. Annual seminars have become traditional for EAWARN. The purpose of the annual seminars is to discuss topical issues in the sphere of inter-ethnic relations and conflicts in the states and regions covered by EAWARN, and to study situation in the countries facing similar problems of inter-community tensions, separatism, post-conflict reconstruction, etc.
In order to provide a basis for deeper understanding of current ethno-political processes worldwide, the seminar program includes discussions with scholars of the host country, meetings with local authorities and NGOs representatives.
Special seminars on methodology issues including terminology, monitoring methods and techniques, are conducted regularly to provide forum for expertise exchange and training for new experts constantly joining the network. The workshops aim to enhance the overall quality of analysis produced by EAWARN experts.
In addition, thematic workshops are conducted within the frameworks of specific research projects.
Annual Seminars
2003 Montenegro, Kumbor
1999 Spain, Barcelona
1998 Croatia, Hvar Island
1997 Sri Lanka
1996 Northern Ireland
1995 Cyprus
1994 Russia, Golitsino
2nd Training seminar of Volga Region Branch of EAWARN. 2003 , August. Moscow.
1st Training seminar of Volga Region Branch of EAWARN. 2002, October. Nizhniy Novgorod.
Workshop on discussing the draft of EAWARN Annual report «Interethnic Relations and Conflicts in Post-Soviet Countries 2000». 2001, April. Moscow.
Thematic workshops
Workshops of the project «Identity and Language in the All-Russia Population Census» Paris, France, January 2004
Providence, USA, April 2003
Moscow, Russia, October 2002
Providence, USA, March 2002