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The Global Minority Rights Summer School organised jointly by the Tom Lantos Institute and the National University of Public Service, in cooperation with the Middlesex University, took place in Budapest on 14-19 July 2014.
During one week, 30 participants from all over the world – Austria, Azerbaidjan, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the UK, Ukraine, USA – attended lectures delivered by the most prominent experts and practitioners in the field of ethnocultural diversity management and minority rights.
They had the chance to listen to presentations on a wide range of issues as diverse as ethnic conflict resolution, the situation of minorities in Turkey and the Middle-East, the movement and rights of Indigenous People, political participation of minority women in Africa, cartoons and freedom of expression, the pro-Roma global civil society, transnational social mobilisation, etc. Some of these sessions were open to external participants as well. Besides, some participants also presented their own research, for instance on the right to food of indigenous women in Nepal, the situation of Roma in Kyrgyzstan, minority rights in Sri Lanka, the implementation of the Law on the use of languages in Kosovo, minority rights in Iran, and many more.
In addition to the academic programme, students had the opportunity to discover Budapest, its Jewish neighbourhood, as well as the town of Subotica (Serbia) and its Hungarian and Jewish heritage.
The videos of the lectures delivered by Brendan O’Leary, Joshua Castellino, Valmaine Toki and Bineta Diop will be available soon on our website.