POST-YUGOSLAV PEACE ACADEMY, SARAJEVO, BIH

Background:

Peace Academy Foundation is organizing the 4th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy for persons from across the former Yugoslavia who are active in the fields of peacebuilding, dealing with the past, human rights’ protection. This event is tailored for activists, students, researchers, theoreticians, journalists and all others whose focus is peace work. The 4th Peace Academy is going to be organized in Sarajevo from July 17th – 26th, 2011.

The basic intention is to contribute to the advancement of peacebuilding practices and theory in the Post-Yugoslav Countries and offer those who deal with peacebuilding the opportunity to:

- Critically evaluate and reflect on practices and models applied to date in the peacebuilding field regarding the region of former Yugoslavia
  and beyond;
- Become introduced to new theories and practices of peacebuilding from different parts of the world.

After the academies of the last 3 years (which consisted of three simultaneous courses organized during a single session) and their remarkable experience, this year’s Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy offers three different courses, (held at the same time and at the same location) to interested activists and researchers:

1. Language and Ideology
    Snjezana Kordic

Working language: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

2.  Media and Remembering
     Snjezana Milivojevic

Working language: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

3. Gender, Sexuality, and Violent Conflict
    Dubravka Zarkov

Working language: English

Each participant can only attend a single course.

Eligibility

- Persons working in the field of peacebuilding (advantage will be given to those with a minimum of three years experience and to
  peacebuilding veterans from the ex-Yugoslav region);
- Journalists and media workers (advantage will be given to those with a minimum of three years experience);
- Academics, lecturers and students (advantage will be given to student of the third year and above; lecturers and academics should be
  involved in related fields to peacebuilding and advantage will be given to those with a minimum of three years experience);
- Artists working in relevant filed of work and with a minimum of three years experience;
- Persons working in State and other governmental institutions with a minimum three year experience in a field related to peacebuilding;
- Experience in any of the abovementioned fields;
- Willingness to attend the selected course during its whole, eight-day, duration (late arrivals and early departures will not be tolerated);
- Willingness to fulfil all obligations related to the course (reading the recommended literature before the start of the Academy, writing a final
  essay);
- Fluency in English (prerequisite for the 3rd course);
- Minimum age for participation is 21 years;
- Openness to listen and dialogue.


Deadline: 20 May 2012

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