CRPRC Studiorum
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10th Anniversary of the Ohrid Framework Agreement

CRPRC Studiorum’s Representative Presented at an International Conference organised on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Initial findings of the ‘Effective Political Participation of Small(er) Ethnic Communities in Local Self-government’ project presented at an international conference.

CRPRC Studiorum presented the initial findings of the research conducted within the frame of the project ‘Effective Political Participation of Small(er) Ethnic Communities in Local Self-government’ at the international conference ‘One Decade after the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Lessons (to be) Learned from the Macedonian Experience’ organized by the Centre for Research and Policy Making. The conference took place in Skopje on June 24-26, 2011.

The discussions at the conference were organized in seven panels, namely: Panel 1: The conflict, the agreement and the reconciliation: 2001 then and now; Panel 2: Political belonging in post-2001 Macedonia: the authority of “ethnic identities”; Panel 3: The Ohrid Framework Agreement in the Southeast European context; Panel 4: Decentralization reform after OFA: towards greater power sharing or effective and efficient service delivery?; Panel 5: Equitable representation for “non-majority communities” in Macedonia – Until when?; Panel 6: The future of Macedonia and the region; Panel 7: Lessons learned.

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Biljana Kotevska, Programme Director of the Human Rights Programme, presented the paper ‘Towards Effective Political Participation of “Small Ethnic Communities ” in Local Self-government in Macedonia (Impact of the Ohrid Framework Agreement)’ at the fourth panel ‘Decentralization reform after OFA: towards greater power sharing or effective and efficient service delivery?’. The results of this research will be published by the end of 2011in a baseline study and a policy report.

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