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Marc Weller is the Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues, a lecturer in international law and relations in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and of Hughes Hall. He is also the Director of the Carnegie-Cambridge project on settling self-determination disputes through complex power sharing. He is an expert on conflict management and post-conflict peace building and has authored/edited several books and other publications on issues of international law, self-determination and human and minority rights. In addition to his academic work, he has been an advisor to governments and delegations to the UN Security Council, and he has participated in a number of international attempts to settle ethnopolitical conflicts in Europe and around the world.
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Ewa Chylinski is ECMI Deputy Director and has joined the team directly from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw where she was a project coordinator for several years. She has an extensive background in management and development of academic and other projects and advisory experience in democratization and human rights promotion and protection programmes. She also has an extensive research and field experience from the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Central Asia as a human rights officer at the OSCE and as a former Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Institute of East-West Studies at the University of South Jutland, Denmark.
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Eben Friedman is Regional Representative for Romani integration. He completed the PhD programme in political science at the University of California, San Diego in September 2002. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Explaining the Political Integration of Minorities: Roms as a Hard Case," drew on two years of field research in Slovakia and Macedonia. He also holds an MA in political science from the Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in international relations. At ECMI, his activities focus mainly on Macedonia and Roms.
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Romani Expert Groups for Romani Integration Team
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Gordana Rodic is Programme Manager for the ECMI project on "Romani Expert Groups for Romani Integration". Holding an MA in English language and literature from the University of Utrecht, where she specialized in American studies, Ms Rodić
has considerable work experience in the NGO sector in various regions of the former Yugoslavia as well as in the Netherlands. In recent years, she has been employed by UNPROFOR, the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Utrecht, and the Dutch NGO Pharos (Centre of Expertise on Refugees and Health), where she served as Officer of International Affairs. Through her work with another Dutch NGO, Admira, Ms Rodić previously had the opportunity to work with Romani NGOs from Macedonia and Serbia on issues of discrimination and its reflection in domestic violence.
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Ibrahim Ibrahimi is Project Manager for the ECMI project on "Romani Expert Groups for Romani Integration". With a degree in economics, Mr Ibrahimi is currently enrolled in the MA programme at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje. Before joining ECMI, Mr Ibrahimi was employed as Programme Manager in Romaversitas, the Romani higher education programme of the Foundation “Open Society Institute Macedonia” . Having previously worked as a consultant to the Council of Europe on Roms and employment, Mr Ibrahimi currently serves as a member of Macedonia’s Romani delegation to the Decade of Roma Inclusion and on the board of the Macedonian Helsinki Committee.
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Sait Demir has been appointed as a Secretarial/Project Assistant. A graduate of the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Mr Demir holds a degree in mechanical engineering. Maintaining interests in computers and engineering, Mr Demir also has three years of work experience in the NGO sector as an accountant for projects with Roms.
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Serbia and Montenegro Integrated Analysis Team
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Nataša Markovska was appointed as a Project Coordinator. Worked for the last decade in the field of minority rights. Before joining the Project Team, she worked in 2003 at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre in Budapest, where she was engaged in advocating for the rights of the mentally disabled in Central and Southeastern Europe. Prior to that engagement, she worked on various projects for women and Roms under the auspices of the Open Society Institute – Macedonia. |
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Katarina Crnjanski was appointed as a Project Assistant. Graduated in 2004 from the Political Science Faculty of the University of Belgrade with a major in international relations. The title of her final thesis was “The Position of National Minorities in the Legal and Political System of the Republic of Serbia”. She has been active since 2000 in several NGOs concerned with human rights and the European Union, also working as a volunteer on projects of various student and youth organizations. |
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Branislav Mitrović was appointed as a Project Assistant. Currently works as a volunteer in the NGO “Romani Heart”. As a Community Advocate in the CARE-funded programme by the same name since 2002, he has conducted focus groups in Romani settlements on residents’ day-to-day problems. Active in the Romani movement since 1999, he served in various capacities on the staff of the Romani radio station Khrlo e Romengo (Voice of Roms) in 2000. Additionally, to encourage participation in the 2004 parliamentary elections among both Roms and non-Roms, he took part in the door-to-door campaign organized for this purpose by the National Democratic Institute. |
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Slavica “Lola” Vasić was appointed as a Project Assistant. Became involved in the Romani movement in 1996, working first as a journalist with Radio Belgrade’s Romani desk and later in a coordinative role in the NGO Romani Culture Centre and as an organizer of cultural events about Roms . In 2001, she joined the expert team of the Serbian Ministry of Education to work on the strategy for improving the level of education of the Romani population. At present, she serves as a coordinator in the Romani NGO Children’s Centre “Little Prince” in Belgrade, also working as a short-term consultant for the Decade of Roma Inclusion in the World Bank’s Belgrade office. |
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Need Assesment Macedonia Team
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Gjulten Dalipovska was appointed as a Research Assistant.Third-year law student at the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. Since she began university, she has also worked in various Romani NGOs in Skopje, as well as in then Open Society Institute – Macedonia’s Women’s Program. Ms. Dalipovska also serves as coordinator of a group of young Romani women conducting a critical examination of the role of female virginity in contemporary Romani life. Her last engagement before joining the ECMI Project Team was as an intern in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. |
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Robert Rustem was appointed as a Research Assistant. Final-year student at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Skopje. Active in the NGO sector in Macedonia since his secondary school career, he now works as a trainer for the Nansen Dialogue Centre in Skopje, as well as for the Council of Europe. Additionally, since October 2003 Mr. Rustem has hosted a weekly broadcast on Macedonian state television concerning ongoing projects in the NGO sector. He also serves as a consultant to the Association of Romani Women and Youth “Luludi” |
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