socThe Sarajevo Open Center (SOC) is a non-governmental organization promoting active citizenship through political education and advocating for human rights of women and LGBT persons through equality policies. Among other activities, SOC is doing active publishing work. Their publications appear in several editions: Questioning; Human rights; Gender; BH politics. SOC has published several very interesting and relevant publications in the last year which deal with topics that can rarely be found within mainstream publishing houses. „Glossary of LGBT Culture“, „Textbook of LGBT Human Rights"“, „Discrimination – One Word, Many Faces“, „Someone said Feminism?“ – are just some publications which were published by SOC's team with the help of many other collaborators and are now offered to readers throughout the region of former Yugoslavia. The abovementioned publications are for free and can be found in PDF version on the following link: http://www.soc.ba/index.php/bs/publikacije


Essays

  • Which Way to Peace?

    Course Participant: Dubravka Kalac (Zadar, Croatia) Sometimes, when I walk the streets of my city, late in the evening, when there's only silence present, pictures of  not so distant past strike me,...

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  • Family memories

    Course participant: Kaja Haelbich (Hamburg, Germany) In our course "Understanding Internal Dynamics of Societies in Conflict" we started to engage in the topic of Israel Palestine conflict by...

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Videos

Ubleha for idiots

  • Source of verification

    A place and manner of final verification of indicators (See) to prove how a result (See) was achieved, namely, how a certain activity (See) (for which money was granted) was  really implemented, which makes the project (See) seemingly more realistic – because it is linked to something that exists (i.e. XZ archive in the XY building) – but at the same time relatively more expensive (if someone were to really check the above-mentioned indicators in the above-mentioned manner and at the mentioned place  so that every donor rather chooses the more favourable option: to believe one’s word (See: report) that the money was spent as planned. The source of verification always implies additional activities [namely, additional investments which, as a rule, are not calculated into the project budget of the application (See)] which would lead to its verification (See).

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.