Subject: Coures in Italy on SEE Europe UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA" UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO ISTITUTO TRENTINO DI CULTURA OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI - Rovereto FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE - Provincia Autonoma di Trento UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR DISARMAMENT - Section of Trento Italian Pugwash Group ISODARCO Founded in 1966 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS 15th WINTER COURSE "SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE: INTERNAL DYNAMICS AND EXTERNAL INTERVENTION" ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY 20-27 JANUARY, 2002 ISODARCO has been organizing residential courses on disarmament and arms control since 1966, and has already held twenty-two summer courses and fourteen winter courses. The courses are intended for people already having 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 have an interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters extend from the technical and scientific side of the problems to their sociological and political implications. This course will deal in particular with the current situation in South Eastern Europe. Since the end of the Cold War in 1990, the Balkans crises has been a constant anxiety to statesmen in Europe and the United States as well as to the wider word. The break up of Yugoslavia has led to wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Now Macedonia is on the brink of catastrophe. This course will analyse the history and current situation in South Eastern Europe in the light of the wider issues that it illuminates. What is the role of nationalism in the modern State? Indeed, what is the role of the state itself in the post-modern word of conflict management, rule-based international society and the growth of trans-national practice? Is intervention, in whatever form, as practised by the United Nations and NATO - and now the European Union - the appropriate response and will economic reconstruction, with promise of Union membership, resolve the Balkan crisis? These and other related issue will complete our investigation of the situation in South Eastern Europe. PRINCIPAL LECTURERS: To be announced later. GENERAL INFORMATION: A. English will be the working language of the School. There will be approximately 60 participants. They are expected to attend all lectures and seminars. B. Applications should be submitted with the following information which is compulsory also for those who have previously attended: Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including E-mail address, telephone and fax numbers if available). Present nationality. Degree and/or other academic qualifications. Present professional activities and work address. Publication list and field of interest. In lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a professor or a scholar in the field. No special application form is required. C. Applications can be submitted by letter or fax or E-mail and should arrive not later December 10th, 2001. Applications should be addressed to the Director of the School: Prof. CARLO SCHAERF Department of Physics University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy Tel.: (+39) 0672594560/1 Fax: (+39) 062040309 E-mail: isodarco@roma2.infn.it D. Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the basis of the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed of the Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than December 21st, 2001. E. Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo (Trento) on January 20 and leave in the morning of January 27, 2002. F. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and full board is Lit. 350,000 (approximately US$ 170) and Lit. 250,000 (approximately US$ 120) for students without a salary up to the age of 26 who ask for it. Participants will be housed in double or triple rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested and available, will be Lit. 600,000; participants asking to share a room with somebody in particular, if this is possible, will be charged Lit. 100,000 extra for each person. G. The school is unable to provide any contribution towards traveling expenses. H. The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, via Strigole 1, 38010 Andalo (Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461585813 and Fax (+39) 0461585269 I. A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel Gruppo Brenta. Room and board for each member is Lit. 600,000 for the entire period. Admission of families is limited and will be examined on an individual basis. Participants wishing to bring their families are requested to submit their applications as soon as possible. J. Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short abstract of their proposed contribution in their application. The Director of the School will reserve some time for seminars considered particularly relevant to the programme of the Course. K. The organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any necessary changes to the programme. L. Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating to which Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it could take some time to get a visa, it is advisable to apply for it immediately after being accepted to attend the School. More information on the School can be found on the Isodarco web page at any of the following addresses: www.roma2infn.it/isodarco, www.isodarco.org, www.isodarco.it PAOLO CALZINI, DAVID CARLTON CARLO SCHAERF GEORGE JOFFE, GIANCARLO TENAGLIA Directors of the Course Director of the School