The URI Europe Assembly was held in Ohrid, Macedonia on October 2-6, 2019. URI members from across Europe (including 15 countries and 32 Cooperation Circles) gathered to exchange ideas, enjoy productive conversations, and plan future collaboration and activities – with special excitement for URI Europe’s upcoming 20-year benchmark. Participants were graciously hosted by the local URI Cooperation Circle, Community Development Institute – Tetovo. Among their other activities, the participants also found time to clean garbage from the picturesque shore of Ohrid Lake (pictured above).
This assembly took place 22 years after the first-ever regional URI summit, which was held in Oxford in 1997. Thanks to the hard work of the URI Europe team over the years, URI peacebuilders currently thrive in Europe through the work of 60 Cooperation Circles in 22 countries
Emina Frljak, a representative of Youth for Peace, organization that has been part of the URI for 5 years, attended this gathering. Also in Ohrid was Daniel Eror, URI Global Council Trustee. This was a very good opportunity for Youth for Peace representatives to talk with potential partners, organizations across Europe, who share similar values and goals for peacebuilding
Youth for Peace at the Educational and Youth Office premises celebrated its 5th birthday and looked back at its business successes as well as happy moments lived through various activities that were carried out.
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RYCO Pilot Capacity Building Training was held in Podgorica, Montenegro, in the period from May 7th - May 11th for the beneficiaries of the first RYCO open call for project proposals.
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Dialogue session "Constructive use of veteran experience", organized by Youth for Peace, ReMI network and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, in their room was held on September 8th.
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Tenth anniversary of Learning to Live Together program (LTLT) was celebratedon September 26th 2018 in the premises of Gazi Husrev-bey's Library in Sarajevo. This program has been implementing in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2011.
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President of the Youth for Peace Organization, and a member of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Youth Delegation - The Konrad Adenauer Sarajevo Foundation attended the Blakan Summit, which was held in Brussels in December 2018.
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In front of BBI center, on Sarajevo Children’s Square, pop up exhibition “Peace belongs to everyone” was organized and hosted by War Childhood Museum. This exhibition consisted of toys and belongings of Syrian refugee children, thus showing their experiences to visitors.
The exhibition was organized on 19th of August – World Humanitarian Day, and partners in organization were Caritas Italiana, Youth for Peace and UNHCR. This event was open from 11 until 19 o’clock and it was free of charge for all visitors. Seventeen exponents and stories tied to them that were collected in refugee camps in Lebanon were exhibited.
Besides the exhibition, workshops and animation activities organized for children were organized. This made the event suitable for families, so parents could leave their children in the hands of experienced Youth for Peace facilitators, visit the exhibition and have a look at exponents. Children had the opportunity to write, draw and color, but also to make their own toys of plasticine, wood and other materials.
More about exhibition and photos from it can be found on the following links:
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On February 13th 2014. Youth for Peace was founded and now four years after, it grew, it became known and it attracted many young people and many new members. Youth for Peace started with couple of young people who shared the same passion for coexistence and desire to make change in their community and whole Bosnian society.
Today, for years after Youth for Peace counts 43 members, 43 young, active, dedicated people who share their passion to live together, to contribute to this society and strenghten its capacities and potentials. This was a reason for us to gather on Saturday, 17th of February 2018. in the restaurant of Jewish community in Sarajevo and celebrate our 4th birthday and all the successes that, together, we managed to achieve.
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In hotel Level Up on Trebević from October 6th until October 8th 2017, Youth for Peace staff retreat was held. This meeting gathered 30 members of the organization, who met there to talk about past activities of Youth for Peace, but also to work on future plans.
The first day of the retreat was reserved to reflect on the past activities, i.e. those that were realized in the period from last year retreat that was also held in October, until this year retreat. Members also made their individual reflections about their participation in past activities, their involvement in the work of Youth for Peace, and they also had a chance to express themselves in which fields of the organization's work they see themselves in the future and how much they want to progress in these fields.
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In cooperation with United Religions Initiative (URI), Youth for Peace organized Interreligious Peace Evening on September 14th 2017 in hotel Europa in Sarajevo. This evening was organized as an ending event of URI Global Leadership Gathering which was held in Sarajevo.
More than 200 people coming from different parts of the world i.e. from North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia gathered on this event. Representatives of different religious communities and traditions, government representatives, civil society representatives, both local ones and international ones, Youth for Peace partners and friends attended this evening.
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In the period of September 9th – September 15th 2017, in hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, URI Global Leadership Gathering was held. Youth for Peace was host and co-organizer of this event.
More than 100 people from different parts of the world, from all continents, representing various religious communities and traditions were present on this meeting and made Sarajevo a place where representatives of more than 50 countries and nations all over the world gathered at the same time. Participants of this meeting talked about the future of URI as a network that gathers 890 organizations from the whole world, with the accent on the role and importance of these organizations and what they represent for this network.
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Youth for Peace in corporation with Italian Embassy in BiH and Caritas Italiana has presented themselves at the Kids Festival. On 4th of July, there was a lot of smile, fun and creativity, which sprang up a plenty of colourful works of the youngest visitors. The heat has not blocked YfP from developing and presenting interesting workshops to hundreds of children who visited the tent during the day. The happiness of the children is visible on the pictures, while the special thanks go to the organizers of the Kids Festival and the partners.
In Lužnica, a place near Zagreb, from March 30th until April 2nd, 4th regional interfaith conference titled „By building Peace, we celebrate God“was held. The conference was organized by regional initiative Believers for Peace. Believers of abrahamic traditions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia gathered on this event, talking about the topic “Re: Action – Believers for Peace in the time of nationalism and xenophobia”.
Members of Youth for Peace Emina Frljak, Lamija Hubanić, Daniel Eror and Emir Mujkanović also attended this conference, where they had the opportunity to listen to lectures delivered by reputable religious and academic authorities, thus enriching their knowledge about interreligious dialogue and ways of combating nationalism and xenophobia, and by doing so strengthening their own, but also Youth for Peace’s capacities. Besides the lectures, participants on this conference had the opportunity to experience above mentioned in practice through various interactive exercises, which allowed them to connect the knowledge with practical experiences.
Youth for Peace members also had a chance to present the organization to other participants on the conference and by that to establish regional cooperation with them. This helped them to exchange experiences regarding dialogue and peace building and think about future common projects and initiatives.
On 13th February this year, Youth for Peace has celebrated its 3rd birthday in the premises of the Jewish community in Sarajevo. Many would say that YfP is young organization, but when we look back, we can see many implemented projects, thousands of children and students with whom we have learned, talked, grown, laughed and cried.
3rd birthday has been an opportunity for all members of organization to relax and have fun. Beside members, the event has hosted friends of Youth for Peace. The program has reminded everyone of the most beautiful moments of the Organization in the last three years. This was just a short break from work; YfP team goes back to hard work and new challenges in the upcoming year.
It's nice to be part of Youth for Peace – that would say anyone who had realized how good is to do quality things with us.