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Courses in 2011
Adaptation and Adaptive Governance of Ecosystems
At the time of unavoidable and well-documented global change, adaptation has become a key concept in environmental and related social sciences, and also in policy processes on a variety of scales. Many sectors, including forestry, biodiversity conservation, water management, agriculture, infrastructure development (to name a few) need information about the current state and future direction of ecosystem conditions, potential ecosystem-based adaptations, and relevant policies and governance structures enabling such adaptations.
Advanced European Union Legal Practice - The European Union and the Individual
This advanced course focuses on the practice of European Union Law. Participants receive hands-on insider analysis about the functioning of the European Union. The program is designed to combine seminars on different subjects as well as workshops supporting the topics addressed in these seminars or some aspects thereof. The Total LawTM Method constitutes the backbone of the program and gives it its exceptional flavor.
Brains and Minds: The perceptual and computational bases of higher cognitive processes
This course is a continuation of the successful "Memory and Mind" and "Beliefs and Decision" courses that ran in 2009 and 2010. This year the course will focus on understanding how the arguably most abstract and most human characteristics of human behavior...
Communication Policy Advocacy, Technology, and Online Freedom of Expression: a Toolkit for Media Development
This intensive summer course is designed to help both researchers and activists gain new insights into the role which civil society can play in advocating for free expression online and communication policy change, and will highlight the potential of technology and online tools for mobilizing and organizing constituencies and for enhancing the security and privacy of advocates.
Developing Local Economies through Inclusive Policies and Planning
This Summer School offers the opportunity to learn the principles, strategies and applied skills necessary to equip policy makers and practitioners to be able to design, implement and measure participatory and inclusive local economic development (LED) enabling environments, policies, strategies and projects.
Documentary and Anthropological Filmmaking
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in anthropological filmmaking in the academia and the documentary film world. With visual media playing an increasingly central role in the modern world, the textual bias of the social sciences came under increasing pressure.
Gender, State and Welfare in a Global Economy
One of the most pressing questions facing comparative social scientists concerns the role of the welfare state in mediating social inequalities in a global economy. While some scholars argue that the welfare state will whither in the face of shrinking state budgets and neoliberal austerity measures, others argue for the continued relevance and durability of welfare state institutions in democratic societies.
Human Rights and Drug Policy
The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards. Discussion will focus partly on the identification and understanding of human rights including those that have their basis in international agreements and laws, and...
Human Rights Litigation
Human rights litigation is one of the methods by which civil society organizations can bring about social change. This course for human rights professionals will develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully bring cases to the regional human rights systems and the UN Treaty bodies. Participants will be invited to provide information on concrete cases...
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management
The course deals with the process of decentralization and reorganizing the functions among different levels of government in developing and transition countries. Nowadays both transition and developing countries are setting up new systems of local and intergovernmental finance process; however, their scope, progress and potential, as well as the outcome of the decentralization process vary greatly across the countries.
Justice: Theory and Applications
problem of justice occupies a special place in contemporary political philosophy. In the words of its most influential figure, Rawls, "justice is the first virtue of social institutions". That view seems to be shared by a majority of authors and theories. However, there is no comparable agreement regarding what justice demands, from whom and to whom.
Leadership and Management for Integrity
Raising integrity standards is increasingly recognised as an effective tool to foster development and strengthen legitimate democratic governance. This course meets a need for critical and strategic approaches to successfully reform institutions to improve levels of governance and integrity.
Mediation and Other Methods to Foster Democratic Dialogue
In a two-week course, the program facilitates the exchange of ideas and cooperative projects among mediation scholars, practitioners, trainers, and students in the East and West. In addition to providing an introduction to mediation, it provides a teaching and training template for scholars and practitioners from around the world...
Medieval Codicology and Palaeography
The aim of the one-week course is to provide practical training in the basic skills of Latin and Greek palaeography, combined with codicological and diplomatic lectures based on a new approach toward manuscript studies and the latest trends in research. The course includes a one-day workshop on manuscript and document layouts and the cognitive processes they reflect, complemented by visits to manuscript holding libraries and archives.
Mental Disability Law in Practice
This two-week applied legal practice course aims to strengthen the professional development of students, who are lawyers and other legal advocates in the field of in mental health and disability rights law from Central and Eastern Europe and further afield. While being an applied course exploring rights in real life, the course will introduce interdisciplinary perspectives from social sciences, politics, social work and clinical sciences.
(Neo)liberalization of Socialism and Crises of Capital
The global nature of the current financial crisis has turned attention to the uneven geographical development of capitalism and reminded us that "crisis" is an important mechanism in its historical transformation. Turning a historical lens on the role of crises of capital...
Sustainable Human Development: From International Frameworks to Regional Policies
The course is the sixth edition of the summer courses conducted jointly by the Central European University and the United Nations Development Programme alongside with other Human Development (HD) / Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related activities being implemented or managed by UNDP. The course in 2011 will have an explicit policy focus and will bring together practitioners, mid- and high-level policy makers, academia, and civil society activists from countries in the region as well as experts on issues of HD and MDGs, both from UNDP, CEU and other European institutions.
The Politics of Ethnicity, Nationality and Citizenship
Recent years have seen an explosion of empirical and normative scholarly interest in citizenship across many disciplines. This course seeks to provide an overview of some of the main topical issues and scholarly perspectives in citizenship studies, with a special emphasis on the legal and political aspects of citizenship policies in the European Union member states.
Welfare States of Eastern and Western Europe
The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies for work and welfare reconciliation, social protection, welfare regimes and labor markets. The course also aims to address methodological issues of comparative research in...
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