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Forging self-declaration strategies on Minorities Nationalities bottom-up: the Congress of European Nationalities 1925-1938

 

Forging self-declaration strategies on Minorities Nationalities bottom-up: the Congress of European Nationalities 1925-1938



The unsolved questions of the status of ethnic minorities had led to escalation of several armed conflicts throughout Europe in the past, and sadly also in the 21st century, first and foremost because of the insufficient attention being directed upon the status of ethnic minorities after the treaties ending the First World War. That is not to say there weren’t any mechanisms for minority protection in the interwar period that were developed independently, most notably the forgotten Congress of the European Nationalities (CEN), led by its founding father and spiritus agens, a Slovene jurist and politician, dr. Josip Vilfan. The closest approximation to the lost archives of CEN is the estate of dr. Vilfan, kept by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, upon which we have also based our research.
 
 
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