Preface VII
Lamberto Zannier
Notes on Contributors IX
Part 1
Language, Integration of Societies and Conflict Prevention
1
Introduction: Shaping Language Policies to Promote Stability 3
Bob Deen and William Romans
2
The hcnm Approach to the Promotion of the State/Official Language in Various osce Participating States 23
Laurenţiu Hadîrcă
3
To Speak or Not to Speak: Minority Languages, the Public Administration and the Enforcement of Linguistic Requirements 40
Iryna Ulasiuk and Laurenţiu Hadîrcă
4
Mind Your Own Business: The Oslo Recommendations and the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities in Economic Life 52
Jennifer Croft
5
The Intersection of Language and Religion in the Context of National Minorities 66
Asa Solway and Alessandro Rotta
6
hcnm Recommendations on the Use of Minority Languages in the Broadcast Media as a Baseline for Context-specific Advice to Participating States 79
Sarah Stephan and Dmitry Nurumov
7
The hcnm Impact on Minority and State Language Promotion and on the Social Integration of Diverse Societies Through Education: The cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan 93
Atanasia Stoianova and Michael Angermann
8
Continued Relevance of an ‘Oslo’ Language Policy in a Changing World 123
Fernand de Varennes and Elżbieta Kuzborska
9
‘The Borders of My Language Mean the Borders of My World’. Language Rights and Their Evolving Significance for Minority Rights and Integration of Societies 135
Francesco Palermo
10
Language Rights in the Work of the Advisory Committee 155
Petra Roter and Brigitta Busch
11
The Right to Display Place Names in Regional or Minority Languages within the Council of Europe Legal Framework 182
Vesna Crnić-Grotić
12
Protection of Linguistic Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the un Context 197
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye
13
Language Rights and the Work of the European Union 221
Bruno De Witte
14
‘Taking Oslo Online’: Minority Language Policy & the Internet 231
Jennifer Jackson-Preece
15
Language Rights and Duties for New Minorities: Integration through Diversity Governance 251
Joseph Marko and Roberta Medda-Windischer
Appendix 285
Index 308