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Intercultural Citizenship: the South-East European Context
July 30-August 10, 2001
Course director:
Cesar Birzea, University of Bucharest, Romania
Resource persons:
Bernd Baumgartl, European Peace University, Vienna, Austria
Miroslav Kusy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Vedrana Spajic-Vrkas, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Cesar Birzea, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Course objectives
 | to develop interdisciplinary knowledge and competencies of students,
researchers and teachers in political sciences, civics and humanities;
| to understand the historical roots of ethnic conflicts in South-East
Europe;
| to complement initial professional knowledge of participants by means of a
pragmatic approach, focused on solving some concrete problems of living
together in a multiethnic and multicultural society;
| to help apply "intercultural citizenship" in various cultural
and political environments;
| to help participants learn how to use human rights in a variety of
everyday situations;
| to foster key competencies for peaceful conflict resolution;
| to build a network of faculty and professionals in Southeast Europe which
would facilitate sustainable co-operation, exchange of experience and common
projects;
| to facilitate the establishment of partnership between Eastern and Western
scholars. |
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Course level, target audience
Faculty, Ph.D. students, human rights activists, NGO representatives,
researchers and teachers in social sciences, civics and humanities who have had
some prior knowledge of the topics to be covered.
Syllabus
The course will comprise four major components:
 | Defining the concept of intercultural citizenship
| what citizenship is (a political and legal status, a social contract, a
set of competencies);
| what intercultural citizenship is (multiculturalism and interculturalism,
developing multiple identities, otherness and identity, supranational
citizenship);
| nationalism and citizenship;
| globalism and intercultural citizenship; |
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| Citizenship in south-east Europe
| historical context of nationalism in the Balkans;
| failure of federations based on juxtaposition of nationalism (the case
of Yugoslavia);
| the Stability Pact and the prospects of intercultural citizenship; |
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| How to Rebuild Social Fabric in Conflicting Regions
| intercultural citizenship in conflicting regions;
| the case of Northern Ireland;
| community-based intercultural education;
| intercultural learning and civil society; |
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| Human Rights and Peaceful Conflict Resolution
| international and European documents for the protection of human rights;
| how to use human rights in everyday life (case studies);
| how individuals and communities can be protected from state abuse;
| how real or potential conflicts can be solved with the aid of human
rights;
| initiation in the use of intercultural learning methods (to be used in
schools, NGOs, communities, daily intercultural encounters). |
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The detailed breakdown of the course content:
Theme 1: "From Sarajevo to Sarajevo: Old Problems and New Solutions"
(Bernd Baumgartl)
Theme 2: "Intercultural Citizenship: Definition and Practical
Consequences" (Cesar Birzea)
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Citizenship is a legal membership status ensured by
political rights acknowledged by the State. From the cultural and
psychosocial points of view, membership may refer to several human
environments simultaneously: a town, a region, a nation or a super-national
entity (e.g. European citizenship). This multiple citizenship encourages
dialogue, interaction, shared responsibility, tolerance and ownership of the
same system of values, transcending official nationality and membership of
the same territory. Intercultural citizenship is a form of global
citizenship that unites individuals around a common project and shared
values.
| Number of hours: 12 |
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| The teaching format: lecture, case studies, simulation games,
discussion, seminar and workshop. |
Theme 3: "How to Rebuild the Social Fabric in Conflicting Regions"
(Miroslav Kusy)
Theme 4: "Human Rights and Peaceful Conflict Resolution"
(Vedrana Spajic-Vrkas)
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Human rights offer an operational code for the peaceful
settling of conflicts. We refer to a system that mutually restricts human
rights and liberties. Each individual, group or community is allowed to act
only to the extent to which the respective actions do not impose any
restrictions on the rights and liberties of other individuals, groups or
communities. The Universal Declaration and the European Convention on Human
Rights are super-national instruments that guarantee this operational code
of democratic citizenship. |
| Number of hours: 12 |
| The teaching format: lecture, discussion, workshop drama and
role-playing. |
Non-discrimination policy statement
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of –
including, but not limited to – race, color, national and ethnic origin,
religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational
policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and
other school-administered programs.
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