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EDIS - Old and New Minorities

    In the frame of the nexus between old and new minorities, this research project engages with the concept of ´integrated society` with the aim to explore new and existing policy and normative frameworks to balance unity and diversity based on human and minority rights. Within the context of diversity governance and integrated societies, our research focuses on three different aspects: first, we build upon the existing  knowledge on the synergies between old and new minorities, especially in autonomous territories inhabited by historical groups, by looking at both the theoretical but especially the empirical synergies among old and new minority groups and common approaches to govern diversity. Second, we study accommodation measures as major tools to strengthen living together and tolerance: our major focus is to look at cases and decisions of supra-national judicial and non-judicial bodies emphasizing the proactive role of all actors involved, in particular national and international judges, public authorities, employers, school authorities, individuals, as both mediators and promoters of accommodation arrangements. Third, we engage on a critical analysis of common values (Art. 2 TEU), their relevance and their transmission for an integrated society looking at different perspectives, needs, interests and actors. Fourth, we study how to mitigate the potential negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models on minorities. 

    Publications
    The Roma in Europe: Between diversity and social disadvantage: Comparative perspectives from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
    Medda-Windischer R (2023)
    Contribution in book
    Europäisches Minderheitenrecht: Festschrift für Professor Gilbert Gornig Band I
    Empowering survivors: The urgent need to eliminate sexual violence in conflict zones
    Budabin A, Piras E (2023)
    Internet

    More information: https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/imagining-futures/empowering- ...

    https://doi.org/10.57708/B149209858

    Minorities in conflict settings, desecuritization and deradicalization
    Medda-Windischer R (2023)
    Radio-TV
    Heritage Politics in the Case of Black Lives Matter in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 2023 Joint Convening of the Social Practice of Human Rights Conference and the 6th International Conference on the Right to Development | Dayton, OH | 2.11.2023 - 4.11.2023

    Language Rights and Duties for New Minorities: Integration through Diversity Governance
    Medda-Windischer R (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Conference, Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts – LOEWE Research Cluster - Minority Studies| Language and Identity (Goethe University, Frankfurt) | Frankfurt : 9.6.2023 - 10.6.2023

    Fundamental Rights and New Minorities: Diversity Governance and Social Cohesion from the Perspective of Minority Rights
    Medda-Windischer R (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Are Minority Rights (Still) Human Rights? (University of Belgrade and Lantos Institute) | Belgrade | 28.9.2023 - 29.9.2023

    Exploring Strategies for Transnational Advocacy by Minority Representatives at the UN
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: What Next? 30 Years After the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities | Brighton | 11.5.2023 - 11.5.2023

    "Governing migration and migrant integration in minority regions” and “ Minority Regions and Migration: A Group Role Play”
    Medda-Windischer R, Zeba M (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: SECUREU Summer School 2023 | Bolzano | 2.7.2023 - 8.7.2023

    How Intersectional Frames Matter for Minority Women Representatives at the United Nations
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: ECMI Workshop MInority Women and Intersectionality | Flensburg | 10.7.2023 - 11.7.2023

    Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: an Oxymoron or a Reality?
    Medda-Windischer R, Crepaz Katharina (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Workshop Minority Women and Intersectionality| A Renewed Research Agenda? (ECMI, Flensburg) | Flensburg : 10.7.2023 - 11.7.2023

    How Frames Matter for Transnational Advocacy by Minority Representatives at the UN
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Workshop Challenges and Opportunities in Global and Transnational Advocacy, John Hopkins SAIS Europe | Bologna | 8.5.2023 - 9.5.2023

    More information: ,

    Nuove sfide dell´autonomia altoatesina fra minoranze e migrazione
    Medda-Windischer R (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Italian Constitutional Law and Regional Law`, ref. Prof. Esther Happacher, University of Innsbruck | Innsbruck | 16.1.2023 - 16.1.2023

    Lessons on Corporate and Celebrity Communication from Batman saves the Congo
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Institutional Communication Course, Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Bolzano | 13.12.2023 - 13.12.2023

    How to Exhibit Competing Narratives: Confronting Legacies of Conflict and/or Sustaining Social Cleavages
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Staging Democracy| How Culture and Creativity Stimulate Democratic Engagement | Bolzano : 3.12.2023 - 4.12.2023

    More information: https://www.unibz.it/en/events/staging-democracy-how-culture ...

    North South Dynamics related to advancing the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
    Budabin AC (2023)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Course on Gender Justice, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano | 28.11.2023 - 28.11.2023

    Changing Perspectives in Minority Studies: A Human Rights Model of Diversity Governance for Old and New Minorities
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Contribution in book
    Law and Politics: Festschrift für Joseph Marko

    https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748933113-483

    Section 2 Special Focus: Covid-19 and Minorities - Introduction

    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Journal article
    European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online

    More information: https://doi.org/10.1163/22116117_005

    https://doi.org/10.1163/22116117_005

    Autonomie und Minderheitenschutz
    Medda-Windischer R, Palermo F, Woelk J, Crepaz K (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Stärke durch Wandel – Più forza dal cambiamento. 50 Jahre II. Autonomiestatut und seine Zukunft/Il cinquantenario del Secondo Statuto di Autonomia e il futuro | Bozen/Bolzano | 25.5.2022 - 26.5.2022

    Fundamental Rights and Non-EU Minorities: From an Ambiguous Concept to an Integrated Society?
    Medda-Windischer R, Crepaz K (2022)
    Contribution in book
    Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union
    Diversity, minorities and concerted solutions in times of crisis: A case study from rural minoritized
    communities in Italy
    Medda-Windischer R, Maino F (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: “Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict”, organized by Centre for Minorities Research, University of St Andrews | Edinburgh | 8.6.2022 - 8.6.2022

    Nuove sfide dell’autonomia: immigrazione, minoranze, integrazione
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 50 years Autonomy Statute Anniversary Conference | Bolzano/Bozen | 25.5.2022 - 26.5.2022

    Principi e regole europee su diritto all’abitare e comunità Rom/Sinte
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: “Sinti| Popolo presente ma sconosciuto” - organised by Nevodrom | Bolzano/Bozen : 29.4.2022 - 29.4.2022

    Old and new minorities in autonomous territories: main challenges, new perspectives
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 2022 Eurac Summer School on Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Governance | Bolzano/Bozen | 4.7.2022 - 16.9.2022

    The House of Common Values: Training on the board game
    Medda-Windischer R, Zeba M (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Common Values and Integration - organised by Province of Bolzano/Bozen | Bolzano/Bozen | 2.4.2022 - 2.4.2022

    Migration and Autonomy in South Tyrol
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Radio-TV
    Minority Regions and Migration: A Group Role Play
    Medda-Windischer R, Crepaz K (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 2022 Eurac Summer School on Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Governance | Bolzano/Bozen | 4.7.2022 - 16.9.2022

    More information: https://summerschool.eurac.edu/

    Autonomia, minoranze e migrazione. Dall’integrazione alla società integrata: un percorso ancora incompiuto
    Medda-Windischer R (2022)
    Contribution in book
    Politika 22: Südtiroler Jahrbuch für Politik / Annuario di politica dell'Alto Adige: Stärke durch Wandel. 50 Jahre Zweites Autonomiestatut und seine Zukunft / Più forza dal cambiamento. Il cinquantenario del Secondo Statuto di Autonomia e il suo futuro
    At the intersection of language, conflict, and security: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
    Medda-Windischer R, Carlà A (2022)
    Journal article
    Language Problems and Language Planning

    https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00087.med

    Common Values for a New Vision of Europe: Utopia or Dystopia?
    Medda-Windischer R, Carlà A (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: CES 27th International Conference of Europeanists | online | 21.6.2021 - 25.6.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18321

    Old and New Minorities: Diversity Governance and Social Cohesion from the Perspective of Minority Rights
    Medda-Windischer R (2021)
    Contribution in book
    Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Grundrechte und Solidarität in Österreich und in Europa: Festgabe zum 85. Geburtstag von Professor Heinrich Neisser, einem europäischen Humanisten

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18307

    Different Types of Diversity, Similar Claims? A Regional Comparison of "old" and "new" Minorities
    Crepaz K (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: ECPR General Conference 2021 | online | 30.8.2021 - 3.9.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18318

    Building Social Cohesion on Common Values. Migration and Diversity through the Experience of a Cross-border Project (EUMINT)
    Medda-Windischer R (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: “Post-covid-19 socio-economic recovery strategies| Urban and territorial development for social cohesion, organised by the European Union Program for Social Cohesion in Latin America, EUROsociAL +, UN HABITAT | : 26.5.2021 - 27.5.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18544

    Civic Integration for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Building on Common Values
    Medda-Windischer R, Carlá A (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference - Crossing borders, connecting cultures | Luxembourg | 7.7.2021 - 9.7.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18661

    Linguistic integration indicators as a tool for linguistic justice : Evaluating the implementation of Ljubljana Guidelines-based policies through indicators
    Medda-Windischer R, Spiliopoulou Åkermark S (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Nitobe Symposium 2021 – Language and Conflicts (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) | | 24.7.2021 - 26.7.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18658

    Traditional Instruments and New Challenges: The Squaring of the Circle?
    Medda-Windischer R, Wonisch K (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions | Pisa | 30.8.2021 - 3.9.2021

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18557

    European Civic Integration and Common Values: The Experience of a Board Game
    Medda-Windischer R, Carlà A (2021)
    Journal article
    Peace Human Rights Governance

    More information: https://phrg.padovauniversitypress.it/2021/1/1

    https://doi.org/10.14658/pupj-phrg-2021-1-1

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/19891

    Local Governance and EU Fundamental Values: A perspective from Civic Integration in South Tyrol
    Medda-Windischer R, Carlà A (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Towards an inclusive governance of “EU fundamental values”, University of Padova | Padova | 8.11.2021 - 9.11.2021

    Minoranze: Pace e Coesione Sociale
    Medda-Windischer R (2021)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: “Minoranza| il valore della diversità linguistica e culturale e il suo rapporto con la democrazia”, Ciclo di incontri “Dialoghi con le Minoranze” Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Trento : 25.11.2021 - 25.11.2021

    Religious and Linguistic Minorities and the European Court of Human Rights: Between Restrictive Measures and Concerted Solutions
    Medda-Windischer R (2021)
    Journal article
    Europa Ethnica

    More information: https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/abs/10.24989/0014-2492-2021-12-3 ...

    https://doi.org/10.24989/0014-2492-2021-12-36

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18212

    Civic Integration: Building on Common Values
    Medda-Windischer R (2020)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: EUMINT Final Conference (Webinar) | Bolzano | 21.10.2020 - 21.10.2020

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14820

    The Austrian Islam Law, 2015: Origins, Enforcement, Interpretations
    Wonisch K (2020)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: The Austrian Islam Law, 2015| Origins, Enforcement, Interpretations | Trento : 29.5.2020 - 29.5.2020

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15021

    Rapporto sulle migrazioni - Alto Adige 2020
    Medda-Windischer R, Membretti A (2020)
    Bolzano/Bozen: Eurac Research
    Edited book

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15567

    Anti-discrimination and Equality
    Medda-Windischer R, Tomaselli A, Wonisch K (2020)
    The Hague: OSCE/HCNM
    Contribution in book
    Mapping Integration Indicators: a Reference Tool for Evaluating the Implementation of Ljubljana Guidelines-based Policy, Report commissioned by the HCNM/OSCE

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15724

    Società, lingua, religione
    Medda-Windischer R, Mitterhofer J (2020)
    Bolzano/Bozen,: Eurac Research
    Contribution in book
    Rapporto sulle migrazioni - Alto Adige 2020

    More information: http://www.eurac.edu/it/research/Publications/Pages/dossier/ ...

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15988

    Mapping Integration Indicators: a Reference Tool for Evaluating the Implementation of Ljubljana Guidelines-based Policy, Report commissioned by the HCNM/OSCE
    Medda-Windischer R, Spiliopoulou Åkermark S, Schulte F, Cramer Marsal F (2020)
    The Hague: OSCE/HCNM
    Edited book

    More information: http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/projects/Documents/Report-M ...

    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4314917

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15879

    Superdiversity and sub-national autonomous regions: Perspectives from the South Tyrolean case
    Medda-Windischer R (2020)
    Contribution in book
    Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe: Multi-scalar Perspectives

    More information: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/superdiversity-p ...

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15986

    Mapping Integration Indicators: Quantitative or Qualitative Approaches ?
    Medda-Windischer R, Spiliopoulou Åkermark S
    (2020)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: “Data-driven human rights research” University of Padova | Padova | 9.11.2020 - 11.11.2020

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18695

    Language Rights and Protection of Linguistic Minorities: International Legal Instruments, their Development and Implementation
    Medda-Windischer R, Constantin S (2020)
    Contribution in book

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/16876

    Neue Rechte in Südtirol
    Wonisch K (2019)
    Radio-TV

    More information: https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Suedtirol-heute/1277675/Suedti ...

    Regional Citizenship: A Tool for the Inclusion of Third-Country Nationals In Subnational Entities
    Medda-Windischer R, Kössler K (2019)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: EUI Annual Conference, The Value of Citizenship for Individuals and States | Fiesole/Firenze | 21.11.2019 - 22.11.2019

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15000

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    Alexandra Budabin

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    Projects

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    CUTE Autonomy

    ABI - Cultural and Territorial Autonomy

    Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
    Project

    ONMI

    EDIS - Old and New Minorities

    Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
    Project

    IMMI-REG

    Immigration and the regional level

    Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
    Project

    4PLANET

    ABI - Legal Tools for Democracies in the Climate Crisis: A proposal for a Planetary Contract

    Duration: - Funding: Provincial P.-L.P. 14. Mobility ...
    Project

    SUPRA-MIN

    EDIS/ABI - Supranational Mechanisms for Minority Rights

    Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)

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