{"id":18926,"date":"2016-04-25T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/2016\/04\/spiliopoulou-akermark-at-osce-conference-on-minorities-held-in-the-hague\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:51:14","slug":"spiliopoulou-akermark-at-osce-conference-on-minorities-held-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/spiliopoulou-akermark-at-osce-conference-on-minorities-held-in-the-hague\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiliopoulou \u00c5kermark at OSCE conference on minorities held in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-18924\" src=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sia_Haag_2016.jpg\" alt=\"Sia Haag 2016\" height=\"210\" width=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sia_Haag_2016.jpg 4351w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sia_Haag_2016-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sia_Haag_2016-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sia_Haag_2016-1024x467.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 20-21 April, Research Director Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark took part in the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/hcnm\/32180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities<\/a>, organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Astrid Thors, in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/hcnm\/234981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference<\/a>, brought together 180 government representatives, experts, teachers, education professionals, non-governmental actors and other local and international stakeholders active in the field of education, conflict prevention and peace-making to discuss the challenges in adapting education systems to ethnically diverse societies.<\/p>\n<p>Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark took part in a high-level panel discussion on the role education when building sustainable diverse societies, together with Sr\u0111an Verbi\u0107, Minister of Education of Serbia, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, First Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia as well as professor Jan de Groof from Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>During the conference, Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark also met with PhD-candidate Sarah Stephan, former Researcher at the &Aring;land Islands Peace Institute and currently employed as a Project Officer with HCNM, co-ordinating a research project focusing on the role of minorities as bridge builders, conducted in co-operation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurac.edu\/en\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The European Academy of Bozen\/Bolzano (EURAC)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecmi.de\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI).<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecmi.de\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a short <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/hcnm\/245916\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">film, published on the OSCE homepage<\/a>, Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark as well as five other experts at the conference were asked to answer the question: &rdquo;Why is education a useful tool for conflict prevention?&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20-21 April, Research Director Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark took part in the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities, organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Astrid Thors, in The Hague. The two-day conference, brought together 180 government representatives, experts, teachers, education professionals, non-governmental actors and other local and international stakeholders active in the field of education, conflict prevention and peace-making to discuss the challenges in adapting education systems to ethnically diverse societies. Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark took part in a high-level panel discussion on the role education when building sustainable diverse societies, together with Sr\u0111an Verbi\u0107, Minister of Education of Serbia, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, First Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia as well as professor Jan de Groof from Belgium. During the conference, Sia Spiliopoulou &Aring;kermark also met with PhD-candidate Sarah Stephan, former Researcher at the &Aring;land Islands Peace Institute and currently employed as a Project Officer with HCNM, co-ordinating a research project focusing on the role of minorities as bridge builders, conducted in co-operation with The European Academy of Bozen\/Bolzano (EURAC) and European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). In a short film, published on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyhet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}