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Summer schools are courses organized during the summer break from academic activities, usually intented to explore and deepen the knowledge of a specific theme related to one's field of study. PECOB collects information of upcoming summer schools taking place in Central Eastern and Balkan Europe or dealing with this region.
Forthcoming summer schools will address post-enlargement EU policies, Ukraine since 1991 and its relations to the European Union and anthropology and folklore of the Balkans. Other courses will focus on global governance and international institutions and violence in soviet and post-soviet contexts.
In 2015 the Kosovo Center of Diplomacy, in cooperation with University College “Victory”, will organize the third edition of its international summer program, the "Kosovo International Summer Academy” in Prishtina, Kosovo, with a special focus on “Peace building in post-conflict areas – Diplomacy, Leadership and Negotiations”
The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute is a major centre for the study of comparative and transnational European history and of European history in a global perspective.
The Tom Lantos Institute (TLI) and the National University of Public Service (NUPS) in cooperation with the Middlesex University London (MU) and with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade are organising their third international Summer School on Minority Rights with a special focus on the impact of boundary politics on identity and inequality.
TheSummer School refers to the question whether democracy and market economycontribute to internal and external conflict prevention or resolution.Especially in the case of Ukraine and Moldova it is to be explored how ongoingconflicts can be ascribed to the political and economic need for reform.