News
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Extended deadline for applications to the call for junior researchers at the Peace Institute
The deadline for applications for the public call for junior researchers at the Peace Institute has been extended to 15 May 2023. Applications can also be submitted by email...
Real-world hate speech datasets as evaluation
Andraž Pelicon, our colleague from the Jožef Stefan Institute recently presented a paper titled “Don't Start Your Data Labeling from Scratch: OpSaLa - Optimized Data Sampling Before Labeling” at...
National report on hate crime in Slovenia
We are publishing a national report on hate crime in Slovenia which is the result of our desk and field research done within the Counter-Hate project.
Public call for candidates for junior researchers in 2023 in the interdisciplinary research field
Research field: COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIOLOGY. Application deadline: 30th April 2023.
Public call for candidates for junior researchers in 2023 in the research field LAW
Application deadline: 30th April 2023.
Rule of Law Report 2023: Tools to Stop Corruption Are Too Weak
Liberties’ annual EU-wide rule of law report found rules created by governments were too weak to stop or reduce corruption in 2022.
Projects
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Human Rights Guide II
The Human Rights Guide is an online information and education resourse designed as legal self-help tool that explains to readers in a simple way the fundamental rights in...
Research network FRANET
The Peace Institute, as part of the FRANET research network and contractual partner of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which established the research network, has the task...
City for Everybody – Building Responsible Action for Inclusive Local Communities
To increase the motivation and readiness of local, educational and NGO communities to respond and intervene in cases of racism, xenophobia and intolerance.
Parliament for the Future of Europe
The project creates awareness for barriers/ inaccessibilities and develops concrete proposals for a more inclusive EU.
FIERCE – Feminist movements revitalizing democracy in Europe
The project’s main goal is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliance among feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers.
JUSTICE FOR ALL: Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities: EU Cross-Border Transfers, Detention and Alternatives
The overall objective is to promote judicial cooperation and mutual recognition in criminal matters within in the EU.
Publications
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Book / Ethnic Discrimination: Strategies of Research and Measurement
The book presents in detail and critically evaluates different ways of “measuring” ethnic discrimination, breaking new ground in the field of empirical data collection on unequal treatment as well...
Article / Legislative and Judicial Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Slovenia and Austria: A Comparative Perspective
In the last issue of the journal ‘Dve domovini/Two Homelands’, Neža Kogovšek Šalamon compares the key normative approaches to responses to the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis” in Slovenia and Austria.
Article / The Transversal Political Logic of Populism: Framing the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Slovenian Parliamentary Debates
In the article the authors Mojca Pajnik and Emanuela Fabijan analyse how politicians in Slovenia responded to migration during and after the ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2019).
Article Whose children? The EU and Member States’ integration policies in education
The authors argue that nationalism and the denial of rights in EU member states are the two main obstacles that prevent integration from becoming a two-way process, focusing...
Reported User-Generated Online Hate Speech: The ‘Ecosystem’, Frames, and Ideologies
Iztok Šori (Peace Institute) and Vasja Vehovar (Faculty of Social Sciences) published an article in the journal Social Sciences in which they analyze hate speech reported by Internet users...
Article Empowerment through Migration: Narratives of Successful Migrant Women’s Integration in Slovenia
Drawing on new empirical data comprising migrant women’s narratives and their voices assembled in an online survey, in this paper we argue that migration should also be viewed as...