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Opening of the 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy

The 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy (PYPA) will be opened on Monday, 23rd July 2012 at 9:30am in the Franciscan Student Dormitory. Organizers of the PYPA, Peace Academy Foundation's staff will be present at the opening as well as this year's course instructors: Tonči Kuzmanić, course instructors of "Politics, Power and (In)Equalities; Svjetlana Nedimović, course instructor of "Role of Historical Truth in the Conflict Transformation"; and Jayne Docherty, course instructor of "Strategic Peacebuilding".

At the same plac, but on Thursday 26th July 2012, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm, a joint lecture and discussion open for broader public will be held on the topic "Socially Engaged Art and Peacebuilding". Guest speakers at the lecture and discussion are: Đorđe Balmazović, artist from Belgrade, Adela Jušić, artist from Sarajevo, and Husein Oručević, artist from Mostar. The moderator of the discussion is Samra Dizdarević.

We invite you to be present at both of the abovementioned two events.

PR/PAF

Dear friends, 

The application procedure for this year's 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy has been closed on June 1st. We have received more then 170 applications. Our selection team is currently in the process of choosing this year's PYPA participants. All those who have applied will be noticed about the selection procedure on June 11th. 

We thank you for your interest in this year's Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy. 

PROMOTION IN BANJA LUKA

Strategic Peacebuilding

"There where efforts for peacebuilding are coordinated, communicated and agreed upon, and where cooperation exists - there is peace."

Author: Maja Isović
Taken from Buka

The "The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding – A Vision and Framework for Peace with Justice," written by Lisa Schirch, was promoted last weekend in Banja Luka in the cafe Cafe&Chillout within the National and University Library RS.  The event was organized by the Peace Academy Foundation (PAF) from Sarajevo and the Center for Informative Decontamination of Youth from Banja Luka. 

Amer Tikveša, Executive Director of PAF, Randall Puljek-Shank, a member of the PAF Board of Directors, and Aleksander Trifunović, Head Editor of Buka, talked about the publication about about the idea of peace, and agreed that the subject is very hard to define in the context of strategic peacebuilding.