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Seoul World Congress: RC Papers Presented

William Bostok (Political Science, University of Tasmania, Australia),

"Language Grief: A 'Raw Material' of Ethnic Conflict." An attempt at a socio-psychological analysis of the consequences of enforced language change and "deprivation." References especially to Asian ethnolinguistic communities.

Boris Erasov (Institute of Oriental Research, Moscow, Russia),

"Ethnocentrism, Nationalism, and Civilizational Regulation in Modern Eurasia." This paper focuses on the consequences of the abolition of the Soviet Union on ethnonational communities, especially in the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia. The major thesis is that this abolition has led to a revival of "primeval" sentiments and an exacerbation of interethnic conflicts.

Omar Faruk Genckaya (Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)

"Ethnic Representation in Turkey." An analysis of ethnicity and religion as factors in party organization, electoral behavior, and representation. Attention is paid in particular to the secular-religious cleavage and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.

Hervé Guillorel (Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes Politiques, Université Paris-X, France)

"Autochthony, Territory, and Democracy: Questions about Political and Electoral Representation." An examination of the importance of territorial links in the relationships between democracy and autochthony, focusing on Fiji, the Maoris in New Zealand, and native peoples in Canada.

Michael Haas (Political Science, University of Hawaii, USA), "Monitoring Discrimination in a Multiethnic Society: The Case of Hawaii." An analysis of conciliation agreements among private businesses employing minorities, to show attempts at overcoming institutional discrimination. The study used a large data base of agreements.

Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania and Krysztina Skarzynska (Institute of Sociology,

University of Warsaw, Poland), "National Stereotypes and Political Ideologies: Results of Cross-National Comparisons." A study of interethnic prejudice and national stereotype formation, and, more specifically, correlations between patriotic attitudes and nationalism.

Anna Krasteva (International Center for the Study of Minorities and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria), "Ethnocultural Differences and Power: A Bulgarian Case Study." A comparison of Turks, Gypsies, and Bulgarian Muslims (Pomaks) in terms of their similarities and differences with respect to ethnocultural consciousness and power both during the Communist era and thereafter.

Perry Mars (African Studies, Wayne State University, USA), "State Intervention and Ethnopolitical Conflict in the English-Speaking Caribbean." An evaluation of the role of the state in contributing to, and resolving, ethnic conflict. The focus is on Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica, and on suggestions of ways toward the peaceful resolution of such conflict.

Shaheen Mozaffar (Bridgewater State College, USA), "Constitutional Design, Electoral Systems, and the Management of Ethnic Conflict: Theory and Evidence from Africa." A comparative and theoretical analysis of the impact of various kinds of institutional formulas on the expression, representation, and accommodation of ethnic demands as well as policy outcomes.

Elisabeth Picard (IREMAM, Université Aix-en Provence, France), "Les Kurdes

et les crises de l'Etat au Moyen Orient." A discussion of the reciprocal relationships between the evolution of Kurdish ethnonational aspirations and the political stability of Middle Eastern regimes.

Manju Subhash (Maitrey College, University of Delhi, India),

"Multiculturalism, Minority Rights, and Racism." A reexamination of democratic values and constitutional-institutional processes and the extent to which they moderate ethnic conflict and facilitate the maintenance of "multicultural" society.

IPSA Website: Some RC members have asked the location of the IPSA website. It is: <http://www.uck.ie/~ipsa/index.html>.

International Sociological Association, ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology, Montreal 1998. The Research Committee on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations, RC05 has issued a call for proposals for papers and posters. Full mailing addresses of the Convenors and

session descriptions are available at <http://www.ucm.es/info/isa>.

MERIA: The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) is a new approach to study and discussion on the modern Middle East. The project edited and directed by Prof. Barry Rubin. Point your internet browser to: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria.html.

Proposed New Journal: A group of scholars is organizing a new journal, National Identities, that would focus on historical nationalisms. For more information on the journal, please contact If you are interested in contributing to National Identities please contact the editors: Peter Catterall, ICBH, Room 357, Senate House, Malet St, London WCIH 7HU

+171 436 2478, P.P.Catterall@qmw.ac.uk; or David Hooson, Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, Fax: +510-6423370. If you would like to contribute a review, please contact the reviews editor: Chandrika Kaul, Nuffield College, Oxford, OX1 1NF,; chandrika.kaul@nuffield.ac.uk.

UNESCO/MOST: UNESCO's program of support for scholarship, known as MOST, has sponsored recent events related to ethnicity. These events are described on the program's website, <http://www.unesco.org/most/steering.htm>.

ECOMER: New website. The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht University, has a new website. It is <http://www.ercomer.org>.

Peace Review: Call for essays. Peace Review, a journal published at the University of San Fransisco, seeks essays (i.e., not papers) on the theme of national self-determination. Various approaches and cases are welcome, including comparative studies. Deadline for receipt of essays is January 23, 1998. For more information, contact Prof. Stephen Zunes, Politics Department, University of San Fransisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Fransisco, CA 94117; fax 415 422 6981, email <zunes@unsfca.edu>.

Call for Manuscripts: Democracy in Africa. Prof. John Harbeson of the City University of New York is serving as General Editor of a new series of books to be published by Westview Press on the theme of democracy in Africa. Books in the series will all be comparative in scope. Among the topics of interest are the relationships between democratization and ethnicity. Prof. Harbeson may be contact at the Ph.D. Program in Political Science, City University of New York, 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY, 10036-8099, USA.

Publish a recent book? Planning a conference? Know of sources for research support? Know of a particularly good listserv or internet site on ethnicity and politics? Want to let your colleagues know of a major project? Got a new data set? We are always in need of more items to include the newsletter. If you have information you would like to disseminate to your colleagues, please send it (by email, preferably) to the RC Secretary (below).

Annual membership dues for the Research Committee on Ethnicity and Politics are $5; members are encouraged to pay for three-year terms ($15). Members receive regular newsletters on committee activities as well as information about related conferences, books, and journals on the theme. Members are encouraged to participate in research committee activities, such as workshops, panel discussion, and colloquia. Membership fees may also be used to assist scholars from developing countries to attend colloquia, workshops and conferences sponsored by the committee. Research Committee members may also receive special discounts on publications such as Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

IPSA members can designate that $3 of their IPSA dues be contributed to the committee.

Special note and new policies on dues payment and remittance. We've had some difficulty in the payment of dues and the remittance of dues. Regarding payment, some members are delinquent, yet we are reluctant to drop members from our rolls without affirmation that they wish their member ship to terminate. Please take a moment to pay the dues for RC membership for 1997-2000. However, nonpayment of dues may result in deletion from the membership lists. For all RC panels and colloquia, participation will be limited to those members whose dues are fully paid.

Moreover, bank charges for foreign currency conversion sometimes exceeds the amount of remittance! Therefore, we ask that you try to "pool" your dues payments with your in-country colleagues, remitting them in a single payment.

If you have not yet remitted your dues for the 1997-2000 period, please take the time to do so now. Dues should be submitted to:

Jean Tournon, Treasurer

IPSA Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity

IEP de Grenoble

BP 45, 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex

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President: William Safran, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA

Vice President & Treasurer: Jean Tournon, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France

Vice-President (Ex Officio): Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis, USA

During the period under review, the Research Committee has been active in its efforts at increasing its membership; publicizing the research of its members as well as other events and publications related to ethnic politics; preparation of panels for the 17th world congress; and attempts at organizing colloquia.

In the past three years, membership has grown from 214 to 257 (as of 15 July 1997).This includes seven institutional members (including the IPSA secretariat) and 249 individual members in 41 countries. The distribution of committee membership (including institutional members) by country is as follows:

A list of current members of the IPSA Research Committee on Politics & Ethnicity was distributed at Seoul. It is a fairly robust and comprehensive list, based on responses by many members of the Committee to the "census" form appearing in the last two editions of the Politics & Ethnicity newsletter. Such a list cannot be absolutely complete, given the fact that old members move, drop out, or die, while new members are added. In the course of the last three years, whenever newsletters have come back as not deliverable, the database has been corrected and updated.

In response to the "census" and in other correspondence, well over fifty of our 257 members have submitted e-mail addresses. The more e-mail addresses we obtain, the lower the costs and work connected with the newsletter. It also becomes easier to contact the Committee between the publication of newsletters for other reasons (e.g., announcing colloquia). At present, the 50+ addresses are on a group distribution list. Most of the credit for maintaining membership lists goes to the secretary, Tim Sisk.

During the past three years, we have received at least 30 inquiries about the Research Committee; judging from them, we may anticipate a further growth in membership.

Detailed statement: Federal Credit Union (Boulder, Colorado, USA) account #93497

Explanation: Deposits in the account derive entirely from membership dues. These are paid either via IPSA from $3.00 received from members and earmarked for the Research Committee, or $5.00 sent by members directly. Some members (especially from the Third World) have not been paying their dues regularly, and we have not been assiduous in sending reminders. At this point the problem does not seem to be serious; nevertheless, the question of dues--structure and method of payment--may need to be discussed. So far the only expenditures have been for travel subsidies to Third World scholars participating in colloquia; and for mailings of newsletters. Between 1988 and 1994, the account, though modest, grew somewhat, because during that period, when William Safran, the current president, was vice-president and editor of the newsletter, mailing costs were borne by the University of Colorado, Boulder. General costs of mailing and other communication, including those connected with the IPSA headquarters, the organization of panels and colloquia, and miscellaneous correspondence with members, are still being met by that university. Since 1994, however, our committee has had to meet the cost of mailing newsletters. We hope an arrangement can be made for IPSA members, in particular members of the executive committee, to take turns sharing future mailing costs.

Various attempts have been made by the executive committee to organize interim colloquia. Success has been mixed, owing largely to financial constraints and conflicts about dates. In July 1994, a successful colloquium on "Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Divided Societies" was held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The convenor was Adrian Guelke. Negotiations, involving Dov Ronen, took place from fall 1995 to spring 1996 for a conference in Vienna on ethnic conflicts, but broke down due to a number of reasons, including delays and scheduling problems.

During the past three years, three newsletters, edited by Tim Sisk, have appeared: no. 17, December 1994; no. 18, January 1996; no. 19, January 1997. These newsletters have contained information about our own RC, including world congresses, colloquia, and publications of members; items relating to research and meeting of other units, institutions, and individuals as submitted to us; and, of course, reminders about dues and changes of address.

The members of the executive committee, in particular William Safran and Jean Tournon, spent a great deal of their time on the organization of the two panels allocated to our Research Committee. This was difficult, because we had a very large number of proposals. Those who applied before October 1996 were accommodated, either as regular or supplementary presenters of papers (the difference being largely a matter of formality). There were some 25 additional applicants who could, unfortunately, not be included because they applied much too late. Several individuals who had been put on the program backed out at the last moment.

One of the activities that has come about in connection with the work of several members of the executive committee is the editing of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, a quarterly published by Frank Cass, Ltd., in London. Inaugurated in 1995, the journal is edited by William Safran, Donald Rothchild, and Jean Tournon. Although (at least at the moment) not a formal organ of our Research Committee, it has published articles by a number of members and encourages other members to submit manuscripts.

President: William Safran, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA

Vice President & Treasurer: Jean Tournon, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France

Vice President (Ex Officio): Donald Rothchild, University of California-Davis, USA

Secretary: Timothy Sisk, US Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, USA

Nadia Auriat, UNESCO, Paris, France

John A.A. Ayoade, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Walker Connor, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA

K.M. de Silva, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Adrian Guelke, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

James Jupp, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Stephanie Lawson, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Luis Moreno, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, Madrid, Spain

Shaheen Mozaffar, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA, USA

Dov Ronen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Vojislav Stanovcic, Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

John Trent, University of Ottawa, Canada

Respectfully submitted by

William Safran

August 1997