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peacebuilding through educationThis policy brief focuses on a handful of initiatives seeking to integrate peace into the formal education system, including ministries of education, teacher training programs, and school policies. These initiatives operate on a relatively small scale, often reaching individual schools or teachers rather than the entire system, but they provide critical insights into how peace education is understood and institutionalized in post-war societies.

Drawing on theoretical literature on peace education and interviews with leaders of seven peace education initiative, this policy brief addresses three central points:

  1. The potential of education as a tool for peacebuilding while highlighting the structural and political barriers that constrain its effectiveness in BiH.
  2. The strategies and values of ongoing peace education initiatives, including how they navigate fragmented governance and political resistance.
  3. Concrete recommendations for practitioners and policymakers to strengthen the institutionalization and impact of peace education in postwar contexts.

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    Very often, the only true product of an NGO activity. A very detailed description of everything that was not done in the project (See) so that it looks like it was done perfectly. It obligatorily includes the financial aspect where all the money spent is justified as if it was spent for perfect results (See). It is important to list all possible indicators (See) of success: it is compulsory to name some benign problem (for example, the obstruction of the local nationalists, natural disasters, weird local customs, unrealistic requests and exaggerated expectations of the beneficiaries (See) or participants (See), etc.) in order to enhance the authenticity of the report. Any problem is justified by force majeure and may even serve well to justify the exceeding of the budget.

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.