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RESEARCH-INTENSIVE COURSES		POLICY AND TRAINING COURSES
Advanced European Union Legal Practice The 2010 Advanced Course in European Union Legal Practice is offered jointly by the Department of Legal Studies and Summer University of Central European University (CEU), in cooperation with the Total LawTM Team. For the sixth consecutive year, the program brings together for 2 weeks around 50 participants from all over the world... >>> Read more <<<		Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management This summer school offers an analytical framework for understanding and implementing fiscal decentralization: improving assignment of functions and responsibilities and the fiscal relations between the central, regional, and local governments. >>> Read more <<<
Aspects of Responsibility This summer school focuses on moral responsibility as a central problem of philosophical ethics and metaphysics. It also explores the relationship between responsibility and other important philosophical concepts such as agency, freedom, blame, moral luck, emotions... >>> Read more <<<		Managing for Integrity: Strategies and Approaches Raising integrity standards of organisations is increasingly recognized as an effective tool to foster development and strengthen legitimate democratic governance. Organisational integrity here refers in large measure to internal processes of control... >>> Read more <<<
Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines The aim of the course is to demonstrate that some basic principles of decision making can provide a unifying framework for constructing intelligently behaving artefacts on one hand, and for explaining human and animal cognition both in simple as well as in the most complex domains of behaviour on the other hand. >>> Read more <<<		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... >>> Read more <<<
Culture as Resource: Cultural Practices and Policies After '89 This summer school course has two main aims. First, it will investigate the significant transformations taking place in the sphere of cultural consumption and production in the context of globalization. In doing so, the course will go beyond an assessment of the... >>> Read more <<<		Mental Disability Law in Practice This two-week applied legal practice course aims to strengthen the professional development of participants - practising lawyers, activists and academics in the field of in mental health and disability rights law from Europe and Africa. With an emphasis on exploring rights in real life, this course introduces... >>> Read more <<<
Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change: Methods for Assessment, Observations, and Forecast Formerly a subject of academic enquiries, ecosystem vulnerability to climate change becomes a very practical issue. Many sectors, including forestry, biodiversity conservation, water management, agriculture, etc. need information about ongoing and future states of ecosystems. >>> Read more <<<		Social Integration and the Romany Minority in Europe Today: Linking Policy and Research to Work Against Poverty, Discrimination and Ethnic Conflict There are scores of academically trained civil servants and NPO activists working to reduce poverty, discrimination and increase social integration of Roma. There are many academic researchers scattered through Europe... >>> Read more <<<
Feminist Intersectionality and Political Discourse Recently the concept of intersectionality (multiple inequalities) is gaining increasing attention as a theoretical, as a methodological and as a practical concept. Debates on intersectionality are increasingly present beyond feminist theorizing also in... >>> Read more <<<		Sustainable Human Development: From International Frameworks to Regional Policies The course in 2010 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... >>> Read more <<<
Freedom and Experiences of Subjugation Philosophers and political theorists have debated the question of the nature of freedom in the western intellectual tradition at least since the Stoics. Yet questions regarding the interpretation of experiences of those whose voices have been denied by the very subjugation of which they speak have emerged in new and ever more poignant ways in recent decades. >>> Read more <<<
Lived Space in Past and Present: Challenges in the Research and Management of Townscape and Cultural Heritage Urban settlement has always had a strong and complex spatial dimension. Each town or city developed its unique structure and built form, which has undergone several changes, including rapid and fundamental alterations in modern times. >>> Read more <<<
Meaning, Context, Intention What we express, communicate by uttering a sentence varies with the context of utterance. What is the role of semantics in bringing this about? According to one simple model, a semantic theory assigns to sentences relative to contexts what would be expressed by those sentences in normal assertive utterances, by assigning values to the meaningful parts of the sentences... >>> Read more <<<
Media Development and Democratization: Understanding and Implmenting Monitoring and Evaluation Programs This intensive summer course on media development and democratization is designed to help researchers from academia and civil society gain a better understanding of the history, theory, practice, current trends, and differing methodologies. >>> Read more <<<
Messianism - Jewish and Christian Perspectives This course will explore the ancient messianic idea, its spatial expansion, and its ideational development up to the present. The topic will be approached from a wide variety of disciplines (Political Science, History, Philosophy, Anthropology), sharing a common focus on the messiah as a central and enduring symbol of Jewish and Christian societies and their interconnected eschatological expectations. >>> Read more <<<