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.
Miramida Center - Regional Exchange of Peace Experience is organizing the 6th consecutive retreat for activists from the Former Yugoslavia. The retreat will be held from 5-10 July 2012 in Grožnjan in Istria.
The deadline for applications is 14 June 2012.
More information about the retreat for activists, a detailed program and instructions about how to apply, follow this link.
The Center for Nonviolent Action, Sarajevo/Belgrade invites you to a Basic Peacebuilding Training that will take place from 6-16 July 2012 in Mavrov, Macedonia.
The application deadline is 17 June 2012.
You can find more information about this training and how to apply at this link.
We'd like to announce the publishing of the latest edition of Peace News for April-May 2012. To download the PDF, follow this link. Enjoying the reading!.
In this edition:
- Strategy for establishing an encouraging environment for the development of sustainable civil society in BiH
- IPA programming and participation in civil society
- Establishment of a genocide video archive
- Invitation to this year's Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy
- Campaign for equality for all - a month of Roma women's activism
- and much more
Course participant: Tory Tevis I would like to begin my reflection on the Sarajevo Peace Academy by first stating how difficult it was to settle on a topic to write about. All the themes, ideas and...
Author: Hana Adamović (Zagreb, Croatia) Introduction It’s been argued by feminist scholars that war is gendered in its causes and consequences. The experience of war also varies according to gender,...
