On 6-9 May, 2015, Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini, Director of Research and Cooperation at the Budapest Centre, participated in The Fifth State of the Union conference at the European University Institute.

On 21 April, 2015, Enzo M. Le Fevre Cervini took part in the Regional Meeting of the European RtoP Focal Points in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia.

It has been a productive and successful year for the Budapest Centre and many more projects are in our agenda for 2015.

On December 9, 2014 at the Palais des Nations, Director Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini discussed the role of regional arrangements in fostering pillar II of RtoP, paying special attention to the role of the EU.

Last 25-26 November, Budapest Centre Chair, Gyorgy Tatar, delivered a speech at the Seventh Session of the Forum of Minority Issues at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session discussed about “Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities,” providing an opportunity to examine protection of minority rights as a crucial factor in preventing conflict and in promoting sustainable peace when conflict has occurred.

On 17 November 2014 the Director of Research and Cooperation of the Budapest Centre, Dr. Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini, held a conference on the Responsibility to Protect and the new framework of analysis for atrocity crimes at the Vicenza based Center of Excellence for the Stability Police Units (CoESPU).