ITALY
Archivio
Disarmo – Centro di Documentazione e Studi sulla Pace e Sul Controllo Degli Armamenti
Centro
per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica/Europe and the Balkans International
Network – CECOB/EBIN
Centro
Interuniversitario per gli Studi Ungheresi in Italia – CISUI
Centro Nazionale di
Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale
Centro di Ricerca e di
Studio sui Diritti dell’Uomo
Centro Studi Emigrazione – CSER
Centro
di Studi e di Formazione sui Diritti dell’Uomo e dei Popoli
Centro Studi Terzo Mondo
Centro
Sulle Etnie, i Nazionalismi e le Identità Collettive – ETNICOS
Consiglio Italiano per le
Scienze Sociali – CSS
Dipartimento di Linguistica (Calabria)
Dipartimento di Scienze
dell’Educazione (Calabria)
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali (Naples)
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e
Sociali (Bari)
Dipartimento di Sociologia (Bologna)
Dipartimento di Sociologia (Milan)
Dipartimento di Teorie Dello Stato
Facoltà di Sociologia (Milan)
Fondation
Internationale Lelio Basso pour le Droit et la Liberation des Peuples
Fondazione
Cariplo per le Iniziative e lo Studio sulla Multietnicità – ISMU
International
School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts – ISODARCO
Istituto Affari Internazionali –
IAI
Istituto di Ricerche
sulla Popolazione del CNR
Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale
Istituto di Sociologia
Internazionale – ISIG
Istituto di
Studi Giuridici sulla Comunita’ Internazionale
Istituto Trentino di Cultura
Laboratorio di Socioantropologia (Rome)
Osservatorio
Linguistico e Culturale Italiano – OLCI
Osservatorio sui
Percorsi di Povertà ed Esclusione Sociale
Osservatorio sulle Relazioni
Etniche – ORE
Sezione di Studi
sulle Relazioni Stato/Confessioni Religiose
ARCHIVIO
DISARMO – CENTRO DI DOCUMENTAZIONE E STUDI SULLA PACE E SUL CONTROLLO DEGLI ARMAMENTI
The Archivio Disarmo, a non-governmental organisation recognised by the UN, works in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Defence, and is a member of the International Peace Bureau ECOSO/UN and the International Peace Research Association. It carries out research in the field of peace studies, with particular attention to strategies for intervention in areas of crisis or conflict, including those of an ethnic nature, and arms control throughout the world.
CENTRO
PER L’EUROPA CENTRO-ORIENTALE E BALCANICA/EUROPE AND THE BALKANS INTERNATIONAL
NETWORK – CECOB/EBIN
Casa dell’Angelo
via S. Mamolo 24, 40136 Bologna
Tel.: ++39 051 6449262
Fax: ++39 051 6446884
E-mail: eurobalk@spbo.unibo.it
Website: www.spfo.unibo.it/balkans/eurobalk.html
Director: Stefano Bianchini
Bologna University’s Centro per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica is the co-ordinating centre of the Europe and the Balkans International Network -EBIN, which involves more than 100 scholars from 25 countries in Europe, Russia and the USA. EBIN was established in 1993, with the financial support of the European Union under the Human Capital and Mobility programme. The aim of the Centre is to foster the growth of relationships among scholars focusing on Balkan and Eastern European issues, as well as the developing of academic research projects. Both these activities aim to provide current information and analysis for supporting the transformation of Eastern European societies in the field of politics, economics and humanities, in order to help the development of a sustainable democracy.
The Centre is organised in sections: Balkans, CIS, Politics, International Relations, Agro-Food and Economics. Since 1993, the Centre, through the EBIN, has organised many events, conferences, meetings, training activities, summer schools and fellowships; it produces a series of monographs, occasional papers and a monthly newsletter.
CENTRO
INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER GLI STUDI UNGHERESI IN ITALIA – CISUI
Università ‘La Sapienza’ di Roma
via Nomentana 118,
c/o Cattedra di Lingua e Letteratura Ungherese, 00161 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 49917252
Fax: ++39 06 49917250
Director: Antonello Biagini
CENTRO NAZIONALE DI PREVENZIONE
E DIFESA SOCIALE
Piazza Castello 3, 20121 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 86460714
Fax: ++39 02 26864427
Director: Tullio Tentori
CENTRO DI RICERCA E DI
STUDIO SUI DIRITTI DELL’UOMO
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali –
LUISS
viale Gorizia 4, 00198 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 67486523
Fax: ++39 06 67486300
Director: Paolo Ungari
The Human Rights Research and Study Centre has its headquarters at LUISS, in connection with the Faculty of Political Science.
The purpose of the Centre is: to develop research in the field of human rights on both a national and international level; to promote and organise meetings, conferences and seminars on a national and international level along with other initiatives for the study and dissemination of information on human rights; to institute further training and preparation courses for the teaching of human rights, also through conventions with public and private institutions; to promote the results of completed studies and research to develop any other activity considered useful for the study and dissemination of information on human rights; to maintain contact with other centres with similar objectives in Italy and abroad.
CENTRO STUDI EMIGRAZIONE – CSER
via Dandolo 58, 00153 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 5809764/5897664
Fax: ++39 06 5814651
E-mail: cser@pcn.net
Director: Gianmario Maffioletti
The Centre, set up in 1963 by the General Direction of the Congregation of Scalabrinian Missionaries, studies the sociological, demographic, historic, economic, legislative and pastoral aspects of migration.
It has a specialised library with approximately 20,000 volumes, a newspapers and periodicals library with over 200 journals, newspapers and periodicals, an archive and a photographic collection on Italian emigration (documentation on computer includes approximately 30,000 items). The CSER conducts research on migration, often in collaboration with government institutions or NGOs. It is very active in civic and religious circles, in disseminating information and producing texts for the Italian community abroad and for foreign immigrants in Italy. Of particular importance are its historical research studies on the growth of the Italian presence abroad, especially in Latin America, financed by the Italian National Research Council. The CSER is the Italian correspondent to the EU working group on third country migrants, RIMET (Reseau d'Information sur les Migations des Etats Tiers), and publishes an annual report on immigration from outside the EU.
The CSER’s editorial activity is based mainly on publication of the journal Studi Emigrazione and the series of volumes on the growth of the migrational phenomenon, ranging from specific subjects linked to Italian emigration to more recent subjects regarding immigration to Italy, mobility today and interethnic coexistence; 123 of these have been published to date.
From 1964 to 1976, the CSER also published a biweekly bulletin, Selezione CSER, and from 1986 to 1995 brought out Dossier Europa Emigrazione, a monthly journal on migration. Since January 1996, the CSER has collaborated on the publication of L'Emigrato, a monthly publication on emigration and immigration in Italy and Europe, published by the Scalabrinian Province in Italy. The CSER also contributes to the annual volume, Dossier Statistico Immigrazione, published by Caritas in Rome.
CENTRO
DI STUDI E DI FORMAZIONE SUI DIRITTI DELL’UOMO E DEI POPOLI
Università degli Studi di Padova
via Anghinoni 10, 35141 Padova
Tel.: ++39 49 8273685/8273683/8273682
Fax: ++39 49 8273684
Director: Antonino Papisca
The Centro was created in 1982 as a non-profit making, public institution. Its human rights activities include research, training, documentation/information, publication and conference organisation.
Current research is on the rights of peoples, third-generation rights, the rights of immigrants, the role of NGOs in human rights, intergovernmental machinery for human rights, human rights and international democracy, local government institutions and human rights, NGOs, human rights and international politics, human rights and international security models. The main research fields include democracy, human rights and local government.
The Centre publishes a journal, Pace, Diritti dell’Uomo, Diritti dei Popoli, bulletins, monographs, progress reports, conference proceedings; and organises a four-month postgraduate course, ‘Corso di Perfezionamento sui Diritti dell’Uomo et dei Popoli’.
CENTRO STUDI TERZO MONDO
via G.B. Morgagni 39, 20129 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 29409041
Fax: ++39 02 29409041
E-mail: melotti.uml@iol.it
Director: Umberto Melotti
Established in 1964, the Centre conducts studies and research on the problems of Afro-Asian and Latin American countries; Eastern Europe; and foreign immigration in Europe. From 1982 to 1985 the Centre carried out the first comprehensive study on immigration in Milan.
Publications of the Centre include: Umberto Melotti, Antonio Aimi and Leila Ziglio, La nuova immigrazione a Milano, Milan: Mazzotta, 1985; Umberto Melotti (Ed.), ‘Dal Terzo Mondo all’Italia. Studi e ricerche sull’immigrazione strainer’, Quadrennial Terzo Mondo, Milan 1988, no. 31–32; and Duck Demetrio, Graziella Favaro, Umberto Melotti and Leila Ziglio, Lontano da dove. L’immigrazione e le sue culture, Milan: Franco Angeli, 1990. It also produced the Glossario di educazione interculturale for the European Centre for Education and collaborated with the Istituto Psicoanalitico per le Ricerche Sociali in Rome, publishing two volumes on racism (1992) and on xenophobia (1995) and a dictionary of diversity (1998).
CENTRO
SULLE ETNIE, I NAZIONALISMI E LE IDENTITÀ COLLETTIVE – ETNICOS
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Dipartimento di Sociologia
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 76074351
Fax: ++39 02 76015104
The aim of the Centre is to promote relations and scientific exchanges with Italian and foreign universities and research institutes interested in subjects relating to the building of collective identities on territorial, historical and ethnic bases, and in particular, reformulations of the idea of nationalism.
Other aims are to foster studies and research on the above subjects through joint projects with other Italian and foreign scientific institutions, especially in the fields of the social sciences and humanities; to set up programmes for scientific support of research and university institutes involved in ethnic and/or nationalistic conflict, especially for the universities of the former Yugoslavia; to promote and run courses favouring greater awareness of the causes of ethnic and nationalistic conflicts.
CONSIGLIO ITALIANO PER LE
SCIENZE SOCIALI – CSS
Via Brescia 16, 00198 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 854 0564/854 0218
Fax: ++39 06 841 7110
E-mail: cssroma@rmnet.it
Website: www.ethnobarometer.org
Contact: Dr Alessandro Silj
The Consiglio Italiano per le Scienze Sociali (CSS) is a private, independent non-profit-making institution, created in 1974 and privately funded. It has a membership of 50 scholars, drawn from all the disciplines of the social sciences. Its main mission is to promote interdisciplinary and policy-oriented research. Many of the Council’s members have served or still serve today in government positions. CSS has promoted and organised several comparative research projects and international conferences on such issues as employment policy, the informal economy, the governance of metropolitan areas, decision-making in emergency situations. The secretary-general of the CSS, Dr Alessandro Silj, is Co-Director of the
Ethnobarometer Programme.
DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUISTICA
Università della Calabria
cubo 13, 87036 Arcavacata di Renda (CS)
Tel.: ++39 0984 838159
Fax: ++39 0984 838159
Director: Francesco Altimari
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE
DELL’EDUCAZIONE
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università della Calabria
87036 Arcavacata di Renda (CS)
Tel.: ++39 0984 838217
Fax: ++39 0984 493892
E-mail: Pres.lettere@unical.it
Contact: Prof. Cesare Pitto
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE SOCIALI
Antropologia Economica, Istituto Universitario Orientale di
Napoli
80134 Naples
Contact: Prof. Claudio Marta
The Department focuses on the ideologies and policies of integration of minorities in the United States and Europe, with particular attention to multiculturalism. The Department co-ordinates an inter-university Erasmus project on ‘Emigration and Interculturalism’ for the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, in which INALCO (Paris), SOAS (London), Rijksuniversiteit Leiden and the Humboldt Universität (Berlin) also participate. As part of the project, an intensive course for teachers and students from the five universities has been held in Paris each year since 1995.
As of January 1996, the department is part of a ‘Group of experts on the Roma’, set up within the Council of Europe.
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE STORICHE E
SOCIALI
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bari
Palazzo Ateneo, 70121 Bari
Tel.: ++39 080 5717346
Fax: ++39 080 5717344
E-mail: d.petrosino@pangeanet.it
Contact: Prof. Daniele Petrosino
DIPARTIMENTO DI SOCIOLOGIA
Università degli Studi di Bologna
strada Maggiore 45, 40125 Bologna
Tel.: ++39 051 6403111
Fax: ++39 051 238004
Research on interethnic migration flows is carried out by Professor Maura de Bernart, focusing on ‘Refugees and other persons in need of protection’ (with field research in Italy and in Europe) and on post-war and post-genocide situations, such as Cambodia and Bosnia, where Professor de Bernart has been teaching since 1993. Other projects are: ‘Institutional and police treatment of refugees and other persons in need of protection’; ‘Migrant women, the family and other networks’ (with field research with Moroccan women both in Morocco and Italy); and ‘Citizenship and migration into the changing city’.
Professor de Bernart was among the promoters of the international seminar on ‘Migration and Multiculturalism in Africa, Europe and the Americas’, held at Columbia University, New York, 1995, by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.
DIPARTIMENTO DI SOCIOLOGIA
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Sociologia Urbana
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Consevatorio 7, 20122 Milan
Contact: Prof. Aurora Campus
The Department has studied emigration from the Mediterranean Basin towards the rest of Europe in the period 1950–1970. As of 1995, it has also carried out a number of studies on foreign immigration into Italy, in particular in Lombardy. The Department is host to Professor Martinotti’s group which along with the Universities of Liège, Sorbonne-Paris IV, Liverpool, Köln, Lisbon (Abierta) and Barcelona, is a member of the ‘Migrants and Minorities in European Cities’ network, co-ordinated by CEMES.
DIPARTIMENTO DI TEORIE DELLO STATO
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Roma ‘La
Sapienza’
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 49910528
Fax: ++39 06 4451392
Director: Prof. M.R. Saulle
The Department carries out research on human rights law and domestic jurisdiction. Current research is on refugees, asylum and work; bioethics and standard rules; the rights of the child. It offers also postgraduate courses on international protection of human rights and works as a centre of information, documentation, and conference organisation. It publishes the journal Rivista dei Diritti dell’Uomo, monographs and conference proceedings.
FACOLTÀ DI SOCIOLOGIA
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università
degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
viale Sarca 202, 20126 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 6448 7555/7510
Fax: ++39 02 6448 7561
E-mail: emilio.reyneri@unimib.it
Contact: Prof. Emilio Reyneri
Professor Reyneri is the co-ordinator of the TSER project ‘Migrant insertion in the informal economy, deviant behaviour and the impact on receiving societies’, carried out by a network including France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
The task of the project is to verify the hypothesis that the general attitudes of domestic people towards migrants is different from the specific reaction to migrants who have deviant behaviour or are involved in the informal or illegal economy. Therefore specific interactions between migrants and domestic people as social actors are of interest. The three typical cases to be studied are the following: a. The reactions to migrant workers performing highly ‘visible’ activities in the cities, both informal and illegal, from smuggled goods to street sellers and prostitutes. b. The reactions that are related to direct competition between migrants and nationals in the illegal economy, as regards, for instance, drug dealing and prostitution. c. The conflicts related to massive insertion of migrant workers in some sectors of the informal and illegal economy.
FONDATION
INTERNATIONALE LELIO BASSO POUR LE DROIT ET LA LIBERATION DES PEUPLES
Via Dogana Vecchia 5, 00186 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 68801468
Fax: ++39 06 6877774
President: Prof. E. Alvater
The Foundation is a private, non-profit organisation, whose aim is to research and collect documentation on human rights issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its current projects include research on Islamic fundamentalism and the rights of children. It also offers courses and seminars on people’s international rights. The Foundation publishes the Birn Newsletter.
FONDAZIONE
CARIPLO PER LE INIZIATIVE E LO STUDIO SULLA MULTIETNICITÀ – ISMU
Foro Bonaparte 22, 20121 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 72023398
Fax: ++39 02 876042
E-mail: ismu@ismu.org
Website: www.ismu.org
Director: Prof. Vincenzo Cesareo
The Foundation was established in 1991 to conduct studies and empirical investigations and to organise seminars and training courses for scholars, teachers, administrators and public operators.
The Foundation has a European Observatory which covers the migratory policies of nine European Union countries. The Foundation is also involved in the Metropolis Project and is co-operating in the EU Odysseus Project.
Research activity has been centred on migrant policies in some European countries (France, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Portugal); the economic participation of foreigners specifically in Lombardy; the return of foreigners to their homeland; the role of private schools; deviant behaviour; the presence of foreigners in the Lombardy school system; educational models in determining cultural environments.
As part of the documentation activity some monitoring projects have been undertaken, in particular, of statistical and juridical sources at the European, national and regional (Lombardy) levels; of the migratory phenomenon with specific respect to lodging, deviations, work, health care and education; immigrant policies in some sample city localities and migrant policies in major European countries.
The Foundation publishes a periodical bulletin, a series of quaderni with the results of the Foundation's research and, as of 1996, a report on migration, broken down by subject (statistical, legal, work, political aspects), and more in-depth monographs. The report is also available in English. The Foundation also produces multimedia didactic supports for various levels of schooling (from kindergarten to high school) which it distributes free of charge to teachers and students in Lombardy. Regularly updated statistics on migration in Italy are available on ISMU’s website.
Training activity is directed towards the school environment through the promotion of seminars for teaching and management staff, as well as students, at all school levels. The Foundation also organises periodic updating meetings for administrators and operators in local authorities. Specific initiatives have been directed at other job sectors, such as health care personnel, magistrates, information operators and the clergy.
An Observatory on the Maghreb is being developed in Tunis. This will observe the social, political and economic situation of the Maghrebi countries; the characteristics of migratory flows from the Maghreb to Europe and Italy; the influx of returning migrants and the strategies for reinsertion of this group.
INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS – ISODARCO
Tel.: ++39 06 72594560/1
Fax: ++39 06 2040309/2023507
E-mail: Schaerf@Roma2.infn.it
Contact: Carlo Schaerf
ISODARCO, an NGO founded in 1966 by two Italian professors of physics, Edoardo Amaldi and Carlo Schaerf, offers an international forum on security problems throughout the world. ISODARCO’s purpose is to bring together those with a great variety of experiences and approaches relating to security problems. While it has always been associated with the Pugwash Conferences on Sciences and World Affairs, ISODARCO is not an advocacy organisation.
ISODARCO organises residential courses and seminars on disarmament and arms controls. The courses are intended for people who already have a professional interest in the problems of disarmament and conflicts, or for those who would like to play a more active and technically competent role in this field. The courses are of an interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters extend from the technical and scientific side of the problems to their sociological and political implications. Courses have traditionally been held in Italy but conferences have also been held in Germany, Taipei, and China. A meeting on Middle East security took place in Amman in 1997.
ISODARCO metings have resulted in the publication of a significant number of books through various European publishing houses, many of which have been edited by David Carlton.
ISTITUTO AFFARI INTERNAZIONALI –
IAI
via Angelo Brunetti 9, 00186 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 3224360
Fax: ++39 06 3224363
E-mail: iai@iai.it
Website: http://www.iai.it
Director: Gianni Bonvicini
The Institute, founded in 1965, is a non-profit organisation, the main objective of which is to promote an understanding of the problems of international politics through studies, research, meetings and publications, with the aim of increasing the opportunities available to all countries to move in the direction of supranational organisation, democratic freedom and social justice.
IAI’s principal fields of research are: Italy and international competition, the evolution of European integration and European policy after reform of the Treaty of the Union in Amsterdam, new issues in the security and defence field, the transition in Eastern Europe, relations with the southern shore of the Mediterranean, Europe-Asia relations.
Its research projects include: 1. ‘Preventing, controlling and governing migratory flows in the central Mediterranean’ (F. Pastorre-N. Ronzitti). This research and training programme, promoted jointly with CeSPI, will focus principally on the dynamics of migratory flows in the area considered and on the norm systems (international, multilateral, bilateral, etc.), practices designed to prevent and control these flows and the reception of refugees in this area. Two phases are planned: a) gathering documentation and the preparation of educational dossiers; b) training seminars for high-level officials of EU member and candidate states, and other states.
2. In the framework of the project the IAI and Greece’s ELIAMEP will organize a training seminar on problems of trans-border immigration for public officials and representatives of NGOs from Southeastern Europe and the EU.
3. Also in this sphere and in reference to the program on the internationalization of Italian society (ISI), an international conference will be organised in collaberation with the Interior Ministry and CeSPI to assess the status of Italy’s immigration policy and the outlook for ‘communitarisation’ of European immigration policies.
4. ‘Setting up an institute for European law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)’ (N. Ronzitti). In this project the IAI is part of an international affairs institute headed by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, which intends, ultimately, to establish stable relations among EU institutions and experts in European law and to set up close links between Russia and the EU, in particular with regard to harmonising respective legislation.
5. ‘Fostering peace in Southeastern Europe: the role of regional cooperation’ (E. Greco-R. Stefanova). In line with previous IAI activities in the sector, this project aims to analyse the nature, problems and perspectives of regional cooperation in Southeastern Europe. Starting with an examination of current initiatives in the region, and the different interests and viewpoints of the countries involved, the project will ascertain the extent to which stronger regional cooperation may contribute to international efforts to assure peace and stability in the Balkans and promote the area’s progressive ties to the European Community and to transatlantic institutions (being promoted). An international conference will launch the project. It is proposed that the conference be held in Rome in October with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, NATO, the German Marshall Fund and other international bodies.
6. ‘Euro Mediterranean Study Commissioon(EuroMeSCo) programme for the exchange of staff, information and research’ (R. Aliboni). This is the second phase of the EuroMeSCo project, which is continuing its work in two study groups organised with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (IEEI), Lisbon. One group is concentrating on ‘the Mediterranean charter for peace and stability’ (IAI) and the other on ‘sub-regional cooperatioon’ (IEEI).
ISTITUTO PER LA RICERCA SOCIALE
Head office: via XX Settembre 24, 20123 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 4815653
Fax: ++39 02 48008495
Bologna office: via Castiglione 4, 40124 Bologna
Tel.: ++39 051 238555
Fax: ++39 051 239182
ISTITUTO DI RICERCHE
SULLA POPOLAZIONE DEL CNR
56, Vialle Beethoven, 00144 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 5925248
Fax: ++ 39 06 5925308
E-mail: irpcnr@irp.rm.cnr.it
gesano@irp.rm.cnr.it
Website: www.irp.rm.cnr.it
Director: Guiseppe Gesano
The IRP, set up in 1980, is a public research institute of the Italian National Research
Council (CNR). Research carried out at the Institute includes areas such as: Italy’s
population situation in the international context; problems concerning spatial
distribution of population, urbanisation, depopulation, internal and external migration;
studies on attitudes and values regarding the family and major demographic trends; study
of the relationship between demographic phenomena and the structure and evolution of the
labour force; analysis of the effect on the environment of population-related trends.
The Institute publishes a newsletter, Demotrends.
ISTITUTO DI SOCIOLOGIA
INTERNAZIONALE – ISIG
via Mazzini 13, 34170 Gorizia
Tel.: ++39 0481 533632
Fax: ++39 0481 532094
E-mail: isig@univ.trieste.it
Website: www.univ.trieste.it/~isig
Director: Emanuelo Fabretti
ISIG, a non-profit making cultural institution was founded in 1968 and has had full legal
recognition since 1985. The statutory aims of the institute are: to carry out research and
organise conferences on problems of the relations between states, nations and ethnic
groups; to provide information to policy makers to promote the cultural, economic and
social development of populations; to arrange seminars and specialised courses for
graduates and researchers. The Institute is organised in 6 departments: International
Sociology; Technology and the Future; Sociology of Space (territory, town, community,
environment, rural sociology); Mass Emergencies; Sociosystemics; Social Policy, Social
Groups and Altruism.
ISIG operates a Forum of European Border Towns, an Observatory of European Ethnic Minorities and a Laboratory for the Analysis of Conflict Resolution.
ISIG publishes Magazine Isig , a newsletter, and the journal, Futuribili. Training activities are carried out which are oriented toward Eastern European societies and include a summer school which promotes the building of a new Europe.
ISTITUTO DI
STUDI GIURIDICI SULLA COMUNITA’ INTERNAZIONALE
Corso Vittorio Emanuele 251, 00186 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 6893009
Fax: ++39 06 68308307
E-mail: isgci@iasi.rm.cnr.it
Responsible for OSCE documentation: Giovanni Barberini
The International Centre of Research, Training and Documentation on the CSCE (now the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe: OSCE) was established in Perugia in 1991. At the end of 1996, the documentation was moved to the Istituto di Studi Giuridici sulla Comunità Internazionale of the Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche (CNR) in Rome.
The aim is to promote research, disseminate information and organise cultural and political initiatives taking into account the activities of the OSCE. The Centre’s archives include all documents produced by the OSCE as well as documents of other institutions (the UN, the Council of Europe, the European Union) relating to the OSCE.
A bibliography of the OSCE’s publications has been published and is regularly updated. Permanent relations have been established with other national and international centres and institutions having similar purposes. The Centre’s other activities include organising meetings, seminars, courses and scholarships.
ISTITUTO TRENTINO DI CULTURA
Via S. Croce 77, 38100 Trento
Tel.: ++39 0461 210331
Fax: ++39 0461 210310/239809
Director: Giuseppe Sciortino
LABORATORIO DI SOCIOANTROPOLOGIA
Facoltà di Sociologia, Cattedra di Sociologia Politica
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 8415748
Fax: ++39 06 8552631
E-mail: melotti@uniroma1.it
Director: Umberto Melotti
The Laboratory’s research focuses on ethnic problems, with special reference to situations linked to immigration in Italy and Europe. It has organised several conferences and seminars, including an international conference on ‘Non-European immigration in Europe: solidarity and conflict’ (Rome 1991); seminars on political anthropology (1993-1998) with the participation of, among others, Professors Carlo Tullio Altan, Maurice Godelier and Johann Galtung; and workshops on ethnic problems in Italy, Africa and the former Yugoslavia.
A current research programme centres on ‘state, people and nation in Europe and in the Mediterranean countries’.
The Laboratory publishes a bi-monthly journal, Biologia e società.
OSSERVATORIO
LINGUISTICO E CULTURALE ITALIANO – OLCI
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’
Tel.: ++39 06 44239405
Fax: ++39 06 44240331
Director: Tullio de Mauro
OSSERVATORIO SUI
PERCORSI DI POVERTÀ ED ESCLUSIONE SOCIALE
Dipartimento di Sociologia, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan
Tel.: ++39 02 76023446
Fax: ++39 02 76024749
Director: Francesca Zajczyk
The Observatory, established in 1991 at the Department of Sociology of the University of Milan, is part of a network of universities (Milan, Turin, Padova, Rome, Naples and Messina), that study urban poverty and social exclusion. Recent research on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office (1995-1996) focused on the local policies of 14 Italian cities within this area.
The Observatory cooperates with two centres in Milan, Caritas Ambrosiana and the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sulla Disuguaglianza e l’Esclusione Sociale, and other relevant organisations.
OSSERVATORIO SULLE RELAZIONI
ETNICHE – ORE
c/o Cattedra di Antropologia Culturale – Facoltà di
Lettere e Filosofia
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’
Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Rome
Tel.: ++39 06 49917291
Fax: ++39 06 49917313
Directors: Pietro L. Clemente and Alberto M. Sobrero
The Observatory was established in 1993 to undertake studies and field research on sociocultural problems of immigration. In 1993–95 research projects included: cultural activities of Somali women in Rome’s urban environment; identity problems of Ethiopian women; prostitution of Nigerian migrant women; ethnic identity in the literary production of immigrants; anthropological analysis of Maghreb literature; ethnic business; the Senegalese hawkers. Currently, the Observatory works on life histories of immigrants.
The Observatory plans to organise training courses for teachers and social workers.
SEZIONE DI STUDI
SULLE RELAZIONI STATO/CONFESSIONI RELIGIOSE
Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato
Università degli Studi di Firenze, via Laura 48, 501210 Florence
Tel.: ++39 055 2757063
Fax: ++39 055 2345486
Director: Prof. Francesco Margiotta-Broglio
The Department is participating in an international project which aims to analyse the most important religious, social and political characteristics of the religious minorities in Europe, to collect data on the legal status of the religious minorities and to compare the solutions adopted. In many European countries, the three elements (ethnicity, linguistic and religious identity) can be found in the same community, which may be large but nevertheless a minority, living in the territory of a state constituted by a majority population of a different ethnie, and with a different language and religion. Given that religious practice is usually a collective occasion, often of great social importance, it is essential that collective rights be ensured.
The most significant questions being investigated with regard to the rights of religious minorities today are: 1) enjoyment of individual rights without discrimination; 2) enjoyment of collective rights (of association, cult, and education); 3) legal status of the minority religious communities and recognition of the communities as such; 4) financing of activities carried out by minority religious communities; 5) social importance and validity of the customs and prescriptions of minority religious communities; 6) questions relative to religious practice.
The project plans to acquire enough information to a) assess old existing situations and the new ones that have emerged as a result of the recent political changes in Europe; b) to evaluate the efficacy of the international instruments in place to safeguard persons belonging to religious minorities; c) to compare the national legislative provisions for safeguarding the freedoms of the religious communities and confessions.
The Department intends to retrace the importance of the religious factor in the production of international norms regarding minorities, with particular attention to the relation between cultural identity and religious identity in minority groups, even those resulting from migrations.