As part of the Interfaith Dialogue on Violent Extremism - iDove project, supported by GIZ, a seminar was held in Mostar from June 10th to 12th, 2022, bringing together 14 young people from various parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the seminar, participants learned through educational and interactive workshops with Youth for Peace facilitators about the topics of hate speech, violent extremism, radicalization, and the importance of mental health in understanding and preventing hate speech and violent extremism, but also about positive and alternative narratives in preventing these phenomena. 

Participants also had the opportunity to visit the Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation. On that occasion, the hosts introduced them to the goals of the Center and the circumstances under which the center was created. In his speech, Professor Alija Vidimlić emphasized the importance of educating young people and highlighted to young people that reconciliation must be built and that we must all get involved in the fight against hate speech and violence that fill public spaces today.

After visiting the Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation, young people symbolically threw flowers in the river Neretva, which was accompanied by a jump for peace from the Old Bridge. As part of the project, an online campaign "Our Imperative" is being implemented on social networks, which focuses on the fight against hate speech by creating alternative narratives aimed at young people from the region.

You can read more about the seminar and the jump for peace in these two articles: Prevencija nasilnog ekstremizma: Različitosti u BiH su naše bogatstvo and Mladi mirotvorci u Centru za mir i na Starom mostu.