Dr Fernand de Varennes - Tip O'Neill Fellow in Peace Studies

September 1999-April 2000

Outcome of Fellowship Research

• "Documents on Ethnic Conflicts and Peace Agreements", three volume book series (over 2,500 pages), to be published in 2000. Most comprehensive publication and project of its kind.
  
• Report on relationship between prevention of ethnic conflicts and minority rights, paper for United Nations Working Group on the Rights of Minorities, Geneva, May 2000.

• 16 March 2000: Meeting with Irish language groups for discussion on their situations and possible legal cases involving human rights, Belfast

• 16 March 2000: Seminar presentation entitled "International Language Rights", POBAL, Belfast

• 9 March 2000: "Minority Rights", Postgraduate Seminar "Divided Societies in the Modern World", University of Ulster

• 23 February 2000: Seminar presentation entitled "Language and Law", European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages, Belfast City Hall

• 14 April 2000: Tip O'Neill Lecture entitled "Majority Rule(s) versus Minority Rights:Democracy and Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia", Association for the Study of Nationalities 5th Annual World Convention "Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing World", Columbia University, New York.
  

• 17 February 2000: "Minorities and Conflicts in Liberal Democracies: The Lessons of Northern Ireland, South Tyrol and Quebec", Juntas Generales de Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain, 17 February.Spain.
  

• 14-18 February 2000: Seminar series on human rights, University of Deusto, Bilbao,
  

• 28 January 2000: Seminar presentation entitled "The Rights of Minorities in European and International Law", Conference on Minorities in Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia.
  

• 12 January 2000: Seminar presentation entitled "Protection internationale des droits linguistiques", Seminar for LL.B. students, Universit~ de Moncton, Canada.
  

• 29 November 1999: INCORE seminar presentation entitled "International Law, Human Rights and Minority Rights: A Legal Approach to Ethnic Conflict Prevention", Aberfoyle House, Londonderry.
  

• 4 October 1999: Seminar presentation entitled "International Law, Human Rights and Minority Rights: A Legal Approach to Ethnic Conflict Prevention", Nineteenth Biennial Conference on the Law of the World, World Jurist Association, Budapest, Hungary.