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Completed Projects

Human Rights Mainstreaming in the EU Enlargement Process in the Western Balkans with a Special Focus on Minorities

The CSEES, in cooperation with the Uni-ETC, has elaborated for the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament a study on “Human Rights Mainstreaming in the EU Enlargement Process in the Western Balkans with a Special Focus on Minorities”. The study gives a general overview of international and regional minority rights instruments and of how the Western Balkan states have transformed them into national legislation. In three case studies on Croatia, Vojvodina/Serbia, and Kosovo the authors assess how these legal frameworks have been implemented in practice.

MiMi- Practice of Minority Protection in Central Europe

Under the direction of Professor Joseph Marko from the Centre for South Eastern European Studies of the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, an interdisciplinary, multinational project team will initially study the national legal framework for the protection of national minorities in the countries involved and analyse which influence European institutions had and still have on this framework. This review of the legal situation is necessary in order to be able to study in the main part of the project the actual implementation of these legal regulations in selected key areas.

Expert Database

The expert database contains data about the experts in fields of law, economy and politics from as well as concerning the South-East European countries. The database includes 900 persons and it is being continuously expanded. In order to enable its use in specific projects, the database also contains the data on the experts themselves, such as their language knowledge or their specific fields of expertise.

ICTY and Human Rights

The conference "The ICTY and Human Rights: Towards a Fair Trial inInternational Criminal Procedure?" was organized by the Competence Centre in co-operation with the European Forum Alpbach and the Herbert Batliner Europainstitut on March 29-30, 2007 in Graz (Austria). The conference took place under the auspices of Dr. Erhard Busek, a special co-ordinator of the Stability Pact.

NODE: New Orientations for Democracy in Europe

Within the framework of this project of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture a comparative analysis of minority standards at national and European level was carried out. Project partners were the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen, the Institute of Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana and the Department of Contemporary History of the Institute of History of the University of Graz.

Legal Database

The database offers the possibility to search laws from South-Eastern Europe by keywords. The database is meant to serve the international organizations and public administration institutions, as well as small and medium-sized businesses interested in finding out legislative frameworks of SEE countries.

Re-enforcement of the Rule of Law

The aim of the EC commissioned project “Re-enforcement of the Rule of Law - Division of competencies and interrelations between courts, prosecutors, the police, executive and the legislative powers in the Western Balkans” was to analyze systematically, regionally and comparatively the mode of operation, the cooperation and the deficits of the various Justice and Home Affairs institutions in the region of the West-Balkans.

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