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INTERNATIONAL CAUCASUS FOUNDATION ON MINORITY ISSUES

INTERETHNIC AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

July 20 - 23, 2004
Baku City, Azerbaijan

Seminar: INTERETHNIC AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA, in the frame of the Youth Programme: Culture against Nationalism, Conflicts and Racism - "CANCAR"

As the UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity affirms the equal dignity of all cultures and all religions without distinction, the dialogue must take place in a multicultural world, in which each culture retains its own identity. It is therefore also necessary to review the practicalities of the dialogue of cultures.
Young people should be introduced to the many different ways of looking at the world and the diversity of languages, cultures and religions, which are inseparable from pluralism and can be based only on identities rooted in multiple affiliations.

International Cucasus Foundation on Minority Issues (ICFMI) decided to establish youth programme: Culture against Nationalism, Conflicts and Racism "CANCAR". In the frame of this programme will be conducted seminar: Interethnic and Intercultural Dialogue in Caucasus and Central Asia which we plan to conduct on 20 - 23 July 2004.

ICFMI`s Mission

The ICFMI`s mission is to contribute to the construction of democracy in Caucasus by improving the region’s interethnic climate and promoting principles of interethnic peace and justice based on institutional solutions acceptable both to majority and minorities.
In prder to achieve its goals and to address the problems identified above, the ICFMI active in the following main field of activities:
collecting available information, data and initiatives on ethnic minorities, and making these available to parties interested in real dialogue about different aspects of ethnocultural diversity. Facilitation the exchange of information and the communication process between minority and magority organizations by network activity.
ICFMI activities:
Monitoring the interethnic climate and political arena (Ethnobaromenter, monitoring the press and law- enforcement);
Offering quyalified information and analysis (reports, information bulletins);
Rendering recommendations, and trainings for communities, organizations and individuals involved in conflict mediation and advocacy minority rights;
Working towards the institutionalization of interethnic dialogue.

Aims and goals of the Seminar

The aim of this Seminar is to empower young national/ethnic minority representatives in regard to their cultural rights.
We hope that the project will contribute to accomplishing the following objectives:
To increase knowledge of minority rights standards and mechanisms operating through the UN, OSCE, and Council of Europe;
To explore how international standards and mechanisms can be useful for addressing local problems;
To engage in follow-up activities, with ongoing consultation support from International NGOs for participants advocacy initiatives.
To study experience of each other, the culture and traditions, is an important contribution to the success of networking on the regional level, in particular, development of tolerant attitudes and good neighborhood.
To exchange experiences, realities and practices related to minority rights issues and how it’s perceived by minority youth;
To analyse and explore the issues that effect minority youth such as: sexuality, cultures, tradition and discrimination;
To explore the role of youth NGO’s for motivating the youth active participation in the society;
To network Multicultural, information and consulting centers and other similar organizations (working with youngsters and small cultural groups) and to establish strong links among them for regular exchange of experience and know-how;
To discuss the future project activities and involvement of the partners in them.
To create a positive and attractive image of the region and promote cultural tourism in Cuacasus and Central Asia;
To promote better understanding of each other's cultures in Western Europe and CCA;
To promote international cooperation-operation and to facilitate the integration of CCA into the world community.

During Seminar will be established Network "CANCAR" which will:
- monitor youth culture activity in CCA;
- analyze forms of nationalism, facsism, racism and related intolerance in Culture of CCA;
- organize campaigns against intolerance in Mass-Media and Internet.

For additional information please contact:
Nadir Kamaladdinov
Director
International Caucasusu Foundation on Minority Issues (ICFMI)
121-82, Mir Jalal St., Baku City, 370147, Azerbaijan Republic
Phone: +99450328832, Fax: +9941283839
Email: nadir_kamaladdinov@hotmail.com, icfmi@hotmail.com

Seminar Programme

INTERETHNIC AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

SEMINAR PROGRAMME

July 20 - 23, 2004
Baku City, Azerbaijan

Monday, 19 July 2004
Arrival of participants
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 20 July 2004, First day
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony
Director fo International Caucasus Foundation on Minority Issues (ICFMI)
Minister of Youth and Sport Azerbaijan
UNESCO representative in Azerbaijan
President of National NGO Forum of Azerbaijan
10:30 - 11:00 Team Photo
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee - break
11:30 - 13:00 Presentation of participants
Expectations of participants
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 19:00 Introductions and Overview: development of a minority/culture rights; mapping out the main international standards, institutions; relevance of international law for domestic situations, the role of advocacy.
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee - break
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Presentation of participants Minority/Culture Affiliation

Wednesday, 21 JULY 2003, Second Day
08:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 11:45 United Nations: relevant instruments and procedures, enforcement mechanisms and advocacy opportunities
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee - break
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:45 Council of Europe and Organization for Security and Cooperation: relevant instruments and procedures, enforcement mechanisms and advocacy opportunities
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee - break
17:00 - 19:00 Workshop on Writing Articles
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Presentation of participants Minority/Culture Affiliation

Thursday, 22 JULY 2004, Third Day
08:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 11:45 Multiculturism as Ideology of Social Agreement and Multiethnic Tolerance V. D. Kurganskaya Center of Humanitarian Research (Kazakhstan)
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee - break
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:45 Case Study: Caucasus: role of Culture and Art in strugle against nationalism, racism and related intolerance
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee - break
17:00 - 18:00 Case Study: Central Asia: role of Culture and Art in strugle against nationalism, racism and related intolerance
18:00 - 19:00 Working Groups
1. WG 1: Culture and Art Group
2. WG 2: Internet and Mass Media Group
3. WG 3: Fundraising Group
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Presentation of participants Minority/Culture Affiliation

Friday, 23 JULY 2004, Fourth Day
08:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 11:45 Strengthening Caucasus and Central Asia Youth Minority and Culture NGOs in frame of Network "CANCAR". Workshop on capacity building
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Press-Conference
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:45 Open Debate Forum on Nationalism and Culture Issues in Caucasus and Cenral Asia
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee - break
17:00 - 19:00 Final Expression of Participants
20:00 Farewell Party

Saturday, 24 JULY 2004, Fifth Day
Departure day

Educational Materials:
COMPASS - A manual on human rights education with young people.
Cultural Rights and European Democracies in Transition by Simon Mundy
Multiculturism as Ideology of Social Agreement and Multiethnic Tolerance by V. D. Kurganskaya
Towards a Culture of Tolerance by E. Agius and J. Ambrosewics-Jacobs
Nationalism and Culture by Rudolph Rocker
A guide to the rights of minorities and language by Fernand de Varennes

About ICFMI

INTERNATIONAL CAUCASUS FOUNDATION ON MINORITY ISSUES (ICFMI)

Mission

The ICFMI`s mission is to contribute to the construction of democracy in Caucasus by improving the region’s interethnic climate and promoting principles of interethnic peace and justice based on institutional solutions acceptable both to majority and minorities.

Strategy

In order to achieve its goals and to address the problems identified above, the ICFMI active in the following main field of activities:

collecting available information, data and initiatives on ethnic minorities, and making these available to parties interested in real dialogue about different aspects of ethno cultural diversity. Facilitation the exchange of information and the communication process between minority and majority organizations by network activity;

providing support to initiatives dedicated to developing new approaches to interethnic relations based on the mutual understanding and acceptance of ethnic differences;

organizing advocacy campaigns designed for the intellectual and political actors of both the majority and minority, in order to develop pragmatic approaches to minority issues;

offering training, seminars and assistance in conflict prevention, conflict resolution and conflict management;

promoting alternative approaches to multicultural education for both majority and minorities, reflecting the historical role and contribution of the region`s various minorities and attending to the particular needs of different minorities in terms of education (while attempting to prevent the misuse of minority education issues in political debate).

Aims, Objectives:

to gradually provide a more favorable climate for the interethnic relations in caucasus;

to increase the visibility of minorities in the public sphere with notable events of interethnic dialogue;

to encourage and assist minorities in making their claims in a more balances way, relying more on reliable data and accurate information, and developing more pragmatic programs targeting institutional solutions for accommodating interethnic difference successfully implemented in other parts of the world;

to increase public access to and involvement in interethnic partnerships and cooperation through grant-making activities;

to defense of human rights;

to lobbing of interest of national minorities;

to providing support to ngos of national minorities and fundraising;

to preventing discrimination on national background.

ICFMI activities:

monitoring the interethnic climate and political arena (ethnobarometer, monitoring the press and law-enforcement);

offering qualified information and analysis (reports, information bulletins);

rendering recommendations, and training for communities, organizations and individuals involved in conflict mediation and advocacy minority rights;

working towards the institutionalization of interethnic dialogue;

the icfmi achieve its goals through the following means:

by an adequate management of the allocation of financial, human and information resources;

by offering a model for combining research with proactive approaches;

by promoting the cooperation of existing institutions and organizations active in the fields of interethnic relations/

structure:

General coordination of foundation activity realized by board, which consist of three country directors (one by one from azerbaijan, armenia and georgia) and chairman of board who appear coordinate activity of foundation in safe.
Council of guardians consists of 21 members (of five from azerbaijan, armenia, georgia and six international experts).

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