HIGHLIGHTED FORTHCOMING EVENTS

1) Conference "Giving a stronger voice to civil society in the European

Union neighbourhood", Brdo (Slovenia), April 2, 2008

The Conference on the role of civil society in the European neighbourhood - particularly the Eastern European partners of the European Neighbourhood Policy and countries which are part of the accession process - is well placed in the context of the Slovenian Presidency and its priorities: Western Balkans, European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Policy.Organised under the auspices of the Slovenian EU Council Presidency,

the conference provides an excellent opportunity for civil society to send a political message to the EU regarding the need to develop a coherent and coordinated strategy for sustainable civil society development beyond EU borders. This event is part of a process (ITS Advocacy

Campaign) to launch a debate at EU and national levels on creating sustainable partnership relations between civil society actors, the EU and

2) UNITED conference "Get Educated, Fight Racism!", Stockholm (Sweden),

May 27 - June 1, 2008

Education has a key role to play in eradicating racism and valuing

diversity and it is a responsibility for all educational

establishments, including those with few or no ethnic minority pupils. Promoting

racial equality demands a whole school approach and commitment from all those who are involved in the life and work of their school.That's why UNITED for Intercultural Action together with a number of partner organizations invite you to attend the conference in Stockholm on May 2008, so you can be a part of putting an agenda into place to

address this problem.The conference is planned for ± 70 participants (living in Europe) who represent (inter) national anti-racist, anti-fascist, refugee, human

rights and minority rights organizations. Active grass-roots groups from all over Europe are also invited. Participation is rotated from one

conference to another. Priority will be given to nominations from

young delegates (under 30 years old) with a minority background. Preference is given to those organizations that actively take part in UNITED

campaigns. Participants should act as multipliers, spreading the

information to as many people as possible. We will try to reach an equal balance of female/male participants and a good geographical distribution. Each organisation can nominate only ONE delegate.The working methods used at the conference include plenary sessions, working groups, lectures, political cafйs, presentations, debates, intercultural 'games', information market, cultural activities, open forum.Deadline for nominations is March 25, 2008.

For more information please visit: http://www.unitedagainstracism.org.

3) Summer Institute on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Santa Cruz and La Paz (Bolivia), June-July 2008

The Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT), in partnership with Nur University announces the Summer Institute on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (IPCR). The course is an intensive 4-week, 6-graduate credit residential programme for English speaking professionals; graduate and upper-level undergraduate students intended to build the capacity of current and future professionals in a variety of fields to make a

critical difference in furthering peaceful relations in the world. The course will provide an overview of the theory and practice of conflict resolution and peacebuilding with a focus on providing concrete skills participants can use in the field.

For more information please visit:

http://www.conflicttransformation.org.