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Spring Conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists

As part of the spring conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists in May 2025, Jürgen Pirker moderated a panel on the challenges posed to…

The conference to mark 70 years of Article 7 of the State Treaty of Vienna

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pirker was invited to the conference as a speaker by the Carinthian Slovenian Lawyers' Association and the Austrian Ethnic Groups…

Friedensarbeit in Zeiten der Klimakrise

Tagungsbericht über eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz des Netzwerks für Friedensforschung und Konfliktbearbeitung in Österreich (NEFKÖ), des…

„Ohne die Aussicht auf einen Palästinenserstaat wird es kaum noch Zugeständnisse geben“

Maximilian Lakitsch: Interview mit Kleine Zeitung

Der CPDC trauert um Peter Kostelka

The Conflict Peace Democracy Cluster is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Kostelka on 17 April 2025. As President of the Austrian…

Hello, Fellow: Filippo Costa Buranelli

Filippo Costa Buranelli joins us as Land Steiermark Senior Fellow - welcome!

Armenia: European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Visit of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to Armenia

Jürgen Pirker at the Roundtable on European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Implementation Roundtable on the Fourth Evaluation Report on the Application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages took place in…

Sovereignty Discourse Instrumentalization: Cases of Russia and China

Ksenia Radchenkova presenting her paper based on Doctoral Dissertation.

Legal Approximation and Minority Rights in Georgia: Perspectives on the FCNM and Beyond

Roundtable discussion organized by the section of Global Governance, CEELES, and Tbilisi State University.

Discussion event organized by the Parliament of Austria

Finding solutions. How governments dealt with national diversity in the 19th and 20th centuries. From the Habsburg monarchy to the EU.

Challenges of Nation-Building through the Empire

Jürgen Pirker at the conference "Age of Empires I: Europe and its Empires 1814-1914"

Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina

On November 20, Prof. Joseph Marko represented Slaven Kovačević in ECtHR Grand Chamber hearing on voting rights in legislative and presidential…

New publication

Collective rights

Structural issues and developments in case law on the freedoms of association, nationality and religion in the Basic Law since 1848

World Forum for Democracy

On November 7, Jürgen Pirker represented the University of Graz at a World Forum for Democracy in a session "How to Counter Discrimination and…

Romani Language conference at the Council of Europe

On November 5, Prof. Jürgen Pirker participated in the 5th edition of the conference "Safeguarding Romani Language", organized by the Council of…