Centre Nitobe per a la Democràcia Lingüística
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Fernand de Varennes
| Data de naixement: | 1958-06-17 | |
| País: | Australia | |
| Ciutat: | Murdoch | |
| Adreça: | School of Law, Murdoch University, WA 6150 | |
| Telèfon: | +61-8-9360-6510 | |
| Professió/ocupació: | Estudiós | |
| Interessos: | Drets lingüístics | |
| Coneixements lingüístics: | en,es,fr |
Presentació:
| Dr Fernand de Varennes is a former Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law. Dr de Varennes is recognised as one of the world's leading legal experts on language rights and has written two seminal works on this topic: Language, Minorities and Human Rights (1996) and A Guide to the Rights of Minorities and Language (2001). He was awarded the 2004 Linguapax Award (Barcelona, Spain) in acknowledgement of his outstanding work in the field of linguistic diversity and multilingual education. He has also held the prestigious Tip O’Neill Peace Fellowship at INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) in Derry, Northern Ireland. He has worked with numerous international organisations such as the United Nations’ Working Group on the Rights of Minorities, UNESCO and the OSCE’s High Commissioner on National Minorities on these issues. He is Senior (Non-Resident) Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany, on the advisory board of numerous research centres and journals around the world and has taught in numerous institutions around the world, including at Seikei University, Gakushuin University and Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan; the South Asian Human Rights and Peace Studies Orientation Course in Kathmandu, Nepal; Sam Ratulangi University in Manado, Indonesia; the Gwangju Human Rights School in Gwangju, South Korea; the European Academy in Bolzano, Italy; the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, the University of Pécs in Hungary; the Cornell University - Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne Summer School in Paris, France; the Université de la Réunion,; the European Politics Programme at the University of Pécs, Hungary; the European Regional MA in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia; and the Turku Law School and Åbo Akademi Institute for Human Rights in Finland. He has published five books and over sixty scientific articles and reports. His major publications include a two-volume series on human rights documents on Asia, a series of reports for Minority Rights International on minorities in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and East Asia, and a UNESCO report on the rights of migrants. He is currently working a new book on language rights, and a three-volume book series on ethnic and internal conflicts worldwide. His work has appeared in twenty-two languages (Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Catalan, English, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Kurdish, Japanese, Latvian, Macedonian, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish). |
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