Research Seminar : Diversity-Human Rights-Participation

Seminar report by Alana Lentin. This report discusses the role of the Council of Europe and European Commission in both the promotion of youth research and with regards to the theme of the seminar.

Publication by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin. Council of Europe, 2008. ISBN 978-92-871-6171-0. Order the publication  

Thursday 11 May 2006

Morning

• Opening of the Seminar by Peter Lauritzen, Hanjo Schild and Karin Lopatta-Loibl
• Introduction of participants
• Introduction to the rationale of the seminar by Alana Lentin
• Re-situating Culture/Situating Diversity by Gavan Titley

Afternoon : Interpreting Diversity

• Introduction by Gavan Titley
• Diversity & Equality: An ambiguous relationship by Julie Ringelheim
• Diversity, a short term for “How to deal with…” by Maria Steindl
• Recognising and writing down cultural difference by Kyriaki Iacovidou
• Discussion 

Friday 12 May 2006

Morning : The Fact of Diversity – Perceptions & Challenges

• Learning from History:  Young Jewish Men's reactions to antisemitism and immigrant youth in France by Ofer Nur
• 9/11 and the Reconstruction of Muslim Identity in Europe: A comparative study of state responses to diversity and citizenship by Supriya Singh
• Black Children in the UK: Charting the tensions of relativism and dogmatism by Momodou Sallah
• Discussion

Afternoon

• Key Note Address by Professor Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck College, London
• Discussion

Human Rights: Foundations & Directions

• Introduction by Yael Ohana
• The Critique of Human Rights Discourse: Problem of solution? by Nurlan Mustafayev
• Reconstructing the International Intervention Discourse as Politics of Difference: Achieving Full Participation in the Case of Kosovo Refugee Camps by Madalina Gligor
• The Discursive Dimension of Human Rights: Identity and diversity discourses within contemporary Polish debates by Vanessa Trapani
• Discussion 

Saturday 13 May 2006

Morning : Participation: Bypassing the barricades

• Introduction by Andreas Karsten
• Understanding "Apathy" and New Forms of Participation by Demet Lukuslu
• Notions of participation and culture in political struggles against exclusion- the Spanish case by Joan Cortinas-Muñoz
• Pathways of participation of “second generation migrants” in Greece by Dimitris Parsanoglou
• Discussion

Afternoon

Diversity & Human Rights in Practice

• A critical approach to Human Rights Education: an effective means of managing intercultural communication and promoting dialogue? by Alice Muller
• Learning to be aware of culture or learning to do diversity by Lene Overgaard Mogensen
• Human Rights Education in Finnish Youth Work – How does it appear? by Sari Höylä
• Empirical study on the implementation of Human Rights Education in the formal education system of Croatia by Katarina Batarilo
• Discussion

• Drawing conclusions by Dina Kiwan
• Final discussion