Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics
Newsletter Spring 2001

Dear Members,

As some of you are aware, in 2004 Palgrave (formerly Macmillan) will be publishing 'The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe'. This important work will cover the whole of the continent. The volume will be more than a simple lexicon of ethnic groups resident in Europe. Neither is it solely concerned with the mobilisation of ethnic minorities. Above all it will be designed to inform the reader of the political disposition of ethnic groups in Europe, and the nature of their mobilisation. The volume will include contributions from scholars and practitioners from both within and without the research group. Aside from individual entries, the volume will include regional, and where appropriate country introductions. A professional cartographer has been commissioned to draw the appropriate maps. Many thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in this project. As you can imagine, in some areas we were spoilt for choice, and had to make correspondingly difficult decisions. Naturally, we hope this exciting and unique project will become a standard reference work for years to come. We also hope it represents the first of many such publishing ventures.

Turning to other publishing ventures, 'The Global Review of Ethnopolitics' is still scheduled for launch in September. Chris Gilligan has been working away on his book reviews, and a large number of papers have been submitted with a view to publication. We still have room for more, so if you do have anything you would like us to consider, please e-mail us at K.Cordell@plymouth.ac.uk and at S.Wolff@bath.ac.uk. Don't forget to send both of us a copy. Similarly, if anyone has anything they would like us to consider for the 'Ethnic Politics Research Papers' series, please let us know.

On the conference front, PSA went well. The workshop attracted a good number of participants, especially taking into account the fact that it took place on the final morning of the session! We are also pleased to announce that our proposals for panels at both the First General Conference of the ECPR at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and at the APSA in San Francisco were accepted. We will be running three panels at ECPR under the 'Disputed Territories' rubric. The first session will deal with theoretical perspectives, and the latter two panels will deal with case studies drawn from continental Europe, Cyprus, Kashmir and the Middle East. At APSA we will be running one panel entitled 'Responses to Ethnic Conflict: From Prevention to Intervention'. The other panel is on 'Peace Building and Reconstruction after Ethnic Conflict'. The panels at both conferences feature scholars and practitioners drawn from across a range of countries, backgrounds and disciplines. Further information can be gleaned from the specialist group's website. (N.B. This is the url for the panels only.)

So, as you can see we are active and hopefully providing a worthwhile forum for an interchange of views and information. Don't forget, if you have any material you would like us to include in the next newsletter, let us know!

Best wishes,

Karl & Stefan