Workshop sessions will offer oportunities for interactive comparative analysis of four prototype national minorities, and for drafting resolutions in relation to the important issues confronting the international community in relation to ethnic conflict.

Each workshop will include a Moderator and a Rapporteur (TBA).

Workshop 1.
Peoples seeking political independence primarily as the only feasible way to liberate themselves and exercise their human rights, either in response to UN resolutions or otherwise.  Prototype:  Kashmiris

Moderator:  The Right Honourable Gerald Kaufman,
                        MP, United Kingdom

Workshop 2.
Non-territorial minorities seeking some form of politico-legal structural mechanism through which to  address their affairs with a view to promoting their equal status development within the multinational state.  Prototype:  African Americans

Moderator:  Dr. Farid I. Muhammad
                       Director, Dept. of Social Sciences
                       East-West University, Chicago

Workshop 3.
Indigenous peoples or minorities seeking the preservation, development and recognition of their cultural rights as pre-existing nations or peoples.  Prototype:  Native Americans

Moderator:  Thlau-GooYailth-Thlee
                        Secretary-General
                        United Native Nations, USA

Workshop 4.
Minorities or peoples engaged in demands for self-determination where special rights and legal protections have failed to remove barriers to economic equal status due to entrenched cultural behaviors and beliefs.  Prototype: Dalits

Moderator:  Dr. Laxmi Berwa
                       President, Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Trust of America