2003: PhD /Summa cum Laude/ “ The European System of the Protection of National Minorities ”
1976: Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest
study-visits :
2000: expert at the third TRANSFUSE Workshop on Democratic Security - Brussels, June 21-June 26, 2000 (TRANSFUSE is a program on the Transatlantic Networking for the Future of Southeastern Europe – Aspen Institute/Berlin);
1999: Salzburg fellowship;
1.998: May-June Fellowship: Berghof Center for Constructive Conflict Mangagement
1996: CEU Summer University : "Domestic and International Protection of National Minorities";
1995: Lecturer: "The International Protection of National Minorities" (Course organized in the Hague by the Foundation for Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Council for National Minorities)
1993: January-February, course organized in the Hague : "The International Human Rights Protection and Domestic Legal Systems"
1992, April-June: Center for Ideas and Society, University of California at Riverside
Positions ::
2004-present: columnist: national newspaper “Ziua”;
2003-present: Member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute for the Memory of the Romanian Exile;
2000-present: Secretary of the Pedro Luis Boitel Award Network of Eastern European Countries (for Cuban Dissidents);
2000-present: founder of the organization Ombudspersons for National Minorities ;
1990-present: Expert on National Minority and Freedom of Religion issues/ Romanian Helsinki Committee;
2001- present: columnist, Opinia newspaper;
2000: member of the Advisory Working Group of Foreign Policy of the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs;
1999-present: member of the Working Group European Integration Program/ Open Society Foundation;
1998-present: chair of Expert Commission on Minority Program/ the Open Society Foundation;
1997-present: member of the Expert Committee of the Ethnic Conflict, Multicultural Policy, and Local Governance Project of the Local Government and Public Reform Initiative;
1996-present: member of the Expert Commissions of the Open Society Foundation;
1996-present: Columnist - Radio Free Europe
1996-1999: Member of the Advisory Council of the review RE-MEDIU;
1996-1999:: member of the board of the Civil Society Development Foundation;
1992-2000: Political columnist and Member of the Advisory Council of the review " 22 ";
1995-present: Director of the Steering Committee of the Centre for International Studies ;
1995-present: Editor of the review International Studies ;
1995-present: Director of the Romanian Review for Human Rights ;
1995-present: Member of the Advisory Council of the review Altera ;
1995-present: Member of the Writer's Union in Romania ;
1994-present: Member of the Advisory Council of the review Helsinki Monitor ;
1993-present: Chair of the Centre for Human Rights ;
1990-: founding member of the Group for Social Dialogue ;
1990-1995: founding member and vice-president of the Civic Alliance (president, 1995);
1990-1996: Co-chair of the Romanian Helsinki Committee ;
1990-1992: scientific researcher for the Group for Social Dialogue ;
1990, January-May: member of the Council of the National Salvation Front and then of the Provisional Council for National Unity (executive and legislative bodies at the time);
1980-1989: scientific researcher in the Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology;
1976-1980: high school teacher
Civic-political activity during the communist regime :
1989 June: hunger strike as a protest for the continuing violation of human rights in Romania
1988-1989: protest letters, published in Western mass-media
December 1987-January 1988: arrested for anticommunist activity
1984-1987: articles and studies published in Western mass-media about communist totalitarianism and about human rights
Symposiums and conferences :
after 1990: papers presented in various international conferences concerning the issues of transition, democracy, human rights, minority problems, international politics etc., in France, Germany, United States of America, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Malta, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, RF Yugoslavia, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Great Britain, Mexico, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, Romania
1980-1987: participations to symposiums in physics or in the fields of logic and the philosophy of language
Books, studies and articles : 15 books, about 70 studies, about 800 articles (about 300 in the field of the protection of minorities);
Participation to International Researches and Programs
1998-1999: Promoting and Consolidating Democracy / UN resolution/ November 9, 2000
1999: Human Rights Fellowships Available to Experienced Human Rights Activits (IRHIP Program/Washington: Fellows were required to produce a written product of direct relevance and use to human rights activism in the Fellow's own country and in other countries);
1999: The study of "near neighborhood" at the Est frontiers of future European Union / The Centre for Policy Applied Research/Europa Team/ Bonn;
March-June 1998: Managing Multi-Ethnic Communities: Textbook for schools of public administration in Central and Eastern Europe / Local Government Initiative/ Open Society Institute/ Budapest ;
1996: Improving the Hungarian-Romanian relations / Teleki Foundation/ Budapest & Center for International Studies/Bucharest
Participation to the elaboration to legal norms:
Co-author of t he Strategy for Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Romania , 2003;
Co-author of the UN resolution Promoting and Consolidating Democracy / adopted on November 9, 2000
Co-author and lobby-activist of the Law on the elimination of all forms of discrimination – (adopted by Ordinance in September 2000);
Co-author and lobby activist of the Draft law on the freedom of religion and religious denominations (2000);
Co-author and lobby-activist of the Draft law on minorities rights (1996);
Awards :
2003: “Diploma Pro Minoritate”, Diaspora Foundation/Timisoara
2001: "The success of the New Approach", All Publishing House
2000: National Order "Steaua României", Cavalier (from Romanian President)
2000: The first prize for the Study "A Romanian Conception of Federal Europe" (written with Adrian Severin – from Open Society Foundation)
1999: “Three Millenium Award”, from Roma Party
1998: Honorary Member of the Pro Europa Ligue
1998: Pro Amicitia (second time, from Hungarian Journalists Association from Romania )
1996: Awarded for the best essay on the Romanian-Hungarian friendly relations (from LINIE)
1996: European Journalist (from the Delegation of the European Union Comission
1995: Pro Minoritate (from the Government of Hungary )
1994: Pro Amicitia (from Hungarian Journalists Association from Romania )
1990: Human Rights Monitor (from Human Rights Watch)