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Workshop n. 1   CULTURAL DIVERSITIES IN SLOVENIA

The topic of this workshop is a diversity looked from the point of view of the politics, policies, sociology, psychology, law, social work, pedagogy in the Republic of Slovenia.

 This is a discussion of a state which used to be multinational,  went through a tragic experience of a separation in order to become one national and self-sufficient state. Currently Slovenia is faced with a problem of a large number of people from different ethnicities coming as asylum-seekers plus becoming an Associated state to the European Union that in a couple of years will be faced with another form of a multinational state.

 In the workshop we will present a model of the former Yugoslavia and explain    possible reasons why it did not work out. A paper will also focus on refugees and asylum-seekers in Slovenia as another situation where multi-ethnicity and cultural diversities are a situation to cope with.

 The model of Slovenia is interesting because of  different minorities which are a part of the society (Italian, Hungarian, Roma ). There are also »unexpected« minorities as people who fled in a large scale influx because of the war and future minorities  (migrants, refugees).

 After a presentation of a paper we expect a lively debate and exchange of views on this topic in order to draft some conclusions on how multi-ethnicity and cultural diversities can live hand in hand and in tolerance and understanding.

 CIF SLOVENIJA Speakers/facilitators: Vesna Miletič, with a background education in law and social sciences, she is presently a consultant at the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, designing and developing programs of active employment policies and equal opportunities. She has published various articles and research papers on social services and policies.     

Dominika Marolt was born on 24 December 1962 in Ljubljana, Slovenija (at that time Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.) She studied law at the Faculty of Ljubljana. After a Bar Exam at the Court of Ljubljana in 1991, she participated in a CIP Programme in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Programme seemed to her very useful that is why she decided to become an active member of the CIF-CIP and afterwards gave the impulse to establish CIF Slovenia. She has been working at the Government of Slovenia for eight years, dealing with refugees and temporary protected persons,  involved mostly in a creation of refugee legislation and policy.