Reference Type:  Book Section
Author: Horváth, István
Year: 2002
Title: Facilitating Conflict Transformation: Implementation of the Recommendations of the OSCE High
Commissioner on National Minorities to Romania, 1993-2001.
Editor: e. W. Z. R. O. C. Neukirch
Book Title: Comparative Case Studies on the Effectiveness of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
City: Hamburg
Publisher: Centre for OSCE Research - Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
Volume: (CORE Working Paper Nr. 8)
Pages: 142
Language: English
Keywords: political science, minority rights
Abstract: (ENG) In order to make the HCNM's intervention understandable, we will start with a rather broad portrayal of the dynamic of ethno-political relations in Romania after the breakdown of the Ceauşescu regime. This includes a brief overview of minorities in Romania and an analysis of relations between the Romanian majority, the Hungarian minority and the latter one' skin-state over three distinct periods between 1989 and 2001. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the interventions of the High Commissioner into different issue areas. Chapter 2 analyses the HCNM's mainly functionally motivated efforts to raise the level of institutionalized political participation of minorities. Chapter 3 deals with Van der Stoel's interventions into the sphere of language use and policies on education, including language use in public administration and in the media, Hungarian-language education at the pre-university level and, last but by no means least, at the university level. In the conclusions, we will try to come to an overall assessment of the effectiveness of the High Commissioner's work in Romania from 1993 to 2001.
URL: http://www.core-hamburg.de/documents/34_CORE_Working_Paper_8.pdf