INTENSIVE COURSE „DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT" LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

All modern societies are plural and diverse. As a consequence different interests exist in all of them. Diverse interests can result in conflicts, which, consequently, are normal phenomena and important factors of social processes and developments in every diverse society. Potentially, they can have destructive potentials and do not know their positive and constructive powers. The course aims at investigating, analyzing and discussing the positive constructive powers and their roles as stimuli for progress and development in societies.

Date: 1-12 July, 2008Place: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, SloveniaECTS: 6

Students from the following universities can apply:

• University of Ljubljana (Slovenia);
• Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania);
• University of Bologna (Italy);
• Berzsenyi Dániel College (Hungary);
• Karl-Franzens- University Graz (Austria).

We expect to receive your Application Form, Curriculum Vitae (biography) and Letter of Motivation by 9 May, 2008.

The course will encourage proficient and multinational teaching of special topics which otherwise might not be taught at all. Students and professors will have the possibility to work together in multinational groups.

The main Subjects of the course:

• Political Theory and Ideologies – cultural diversity and ethnic identity formation, theories, diversity and conflicts, the ideologies, etc.
• History – the changing nation, state formation and nation-building in Europe, European experience of 19th ad 20th century, European integration: is there a need for European »identity« formation, etc.
• Comparative Government – multi-national Federations, the revival of ethno-regionalisms against the nation-state, minority protection through territorial autonomy, stat ere-construction and reconciliation in the Balkans, multilevel Governance of the EU, cross-border cooperation and transnational regionalism in the process of EU-Integration, etc.
• Legal Instruments – European level: EU, Council of Europe, OSCE, national level: minority protection instruments in comparative constitutional law, etc.
• New Minorities – the Integration of third countries in the member states of the EU, the exclusion and discrimination of new minorities in education, housing, the labor market, the integration of Muslim communities, etc.
• International Relations – the shift from inter-state wars to intra-state wars with participation of different ethnic groups, international administrations, the EU external relations: democracy, human rights and minority protection.
• The Economics of Cultural Diversity – the economic costs of ethnic conflicts, the economic costs/gains of discrimination respectively integration; managing diversity in multinational companies, multicultural education as a contribution to human capital investments – conflict management and ethnic crisis.

Note: Please, give the necessary documents to your faculty IP coordinator.