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Caritas Italiana is the Pastoral Body created by the Italian Episcopal Conference in order to promote, in cooperation with other bodies as well, the charity commitment of the Italian ecclesiastical community, in the forms that are appropriate considering time and needs, for a complete development of man, social justice and peace, with particular attention to the poor and with a mainly pedagogical function.
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Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) with its activities in the field of international cooperation is committed to a free and dignified life of a man of his own conviction. KAS encourages people to shape their own future in this regard. With more than 70 offices and more than 120 projects around the world KAS has made a contribution to the development of democracy, the rule of law and the social market economy. In order to strengthen peace and freedom, continually supports dialogue in the field of foreign and security policy, as well as dialogue between different cultures and religions.
The Foundation believes that the centre should always be a man, with his unmistakable dignity and his rights and obligations, that man is the measure of everything - social justice, freedom-loving democracy and a stable and lasting economic development. Bringing together people who accept their social responsibility, Foundation develops active networks in politics, economy and entire society. By transferring knowledge through projects KAS tries to influence the globalization, on aspects of social justice, environmental protection and economic efficiency in the process.
On a partnership basis cooperates with state institutions, political parties, civil society organizations and representatives of the elite. In accordance with the goals and values, in the future will seek to deepen political cooperation at the global and regional level, particularly in developing countries. Together with partners support the international order that will enable the development of every country in freedom and self-responsibility.
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URI builds sustainable peace by encouraging cooperation that bridges religious and cultural differences. Working together, groups of URI members from diverse traditions create inclusive, on-the-ground solutions in areas that have been identified by their communities as crucial for the health, happiness, and success of all people living there.
Projects and programs undertaken by 890 Cooperation Circles across the globe. URI’s network of grassroots groups works in over a hundred countries around the world, gathering groups of people from different cultures, faiths, and traditions to work side-by-side for a common cause. Their member groups are categorized into eight regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Multiregion, North America, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Youth for Peace proudly acts as one of URI Cooperation Circles.
All CCs serve one or more of the 14 Action Areas:
- Arts
- Community Building
- Education
- Environment
- Health and Social Services
- Human Rights
- Indigenous Peoples
- Interfaith/Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue
- Media
- Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
- Policy Advocacy
- Poverty Alleviation/Economic Opportunity
- Women
- Youth
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The American Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina protects and promotes American interests and develops relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina through contacts with B&H government, business, labor, agriculture, media and education leaders. The U.S. Embassy supports projects and programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina through a variety of small grants programs:
Cultural Grants Program
The goal of the U.S. Embassy’s Cultural Grants Program is to support programs that share the richness and diversity of American culture with the public in BiH, and to promote mutual understanding and cultural dialogue between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Women’s Empowerment Small Grants Program
This program supports initiatives designed to promote women’s leadership and the political, economic, and social advancement of women across Bosnia and Herzegovina. We particularly welcome proposals for projects that equip women who have leadership potential with the skills and knowledge to advocate effectively for their rights and to become opinion leaders, successful communicators and business women
Democracy Commission Small Grants Program
This program supports NGO efforts to enable greater citizen participation in fighting corruption, transparency in government, preventing brain drain, enhancing human rights (including gender equality and the rights of persons with disabilities), building a tolerant and multi-ethnic society, supporting independent media, and countering violent extremism.
Interethnic Reconciliation and Youth Small Grants and Camps Program
This program supports initiatives with the primary goal of promoting interethnic and intercommunity exchange, collaboration, and joint projects. We are seeking projects and initiatives that clearly develop increased tolerance and cooperation between the ethnically and geographically diverse communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Embassy welcomes all innovative proposals aimed at promoting interethnic engagement, reconciliation, and cooperation.
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The Center for Peacebuilding (CIM) seeks to rebuild trust and foster reconciliation among the people of Bosnia - Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, and others - as well as support peace processes in other countries that have suffered from violent conflict.
Founded in 2004 by peacebuilders Vahidin Omanovic and Mevludin Rahmanovic, CIM is located in Sanski Most – the former front lines of the conflict in Northwest Bosnia. Even twenty years after the start of the war in Bosnia, deep physical and psychological divisions remain throughout society. Many Bosnian schools are ethnically segregated, and parents and family units who suffer from war-time trauma pass down negative stereotypes and perceived threats to the younger generation.
Therefore, all of CIM’s activities are built on the core concepts of mutual listening, understanding, and compassion through (re)building relationships. CIM’s activities have brought together men, women, and youth, from rape victims, camp survivors, and war veterans to diverse religious leaders in dialogue, counseling sessions, and conflict resolution skill building seminars.
CIM plays a critical role by providing a safe space for constructive interethnic and religious dialogue. Our activities promote human rights and intercultural cooperation. We also train individuals in practical conflict resolution techniques, equipping them with skills to respond to conflict, including potentially violent situations, through creative and nonviolent means.
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EuroDemos Youth Mobility NGO (EDYM-NGO) is an Italian non-profit, non-political, non-partisan and non-denominational organization which operates both locally and internationally with the objective of building bridges between Italy and the other countries all over Europe and the rest of the world in the field of both formal and non-formal education. The Association is fully committed to urge European and Global youth to get motivated in active citizenship, to tailor their mobility on the basis of their needs and according to their expectations while learning and to create a snowball effect in educational matters on an experiential basis.
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Sombor Educational Centre (SEC) is non-governmental and non-profit youth organization founded in 2009 with the aim of improving position of children, youth and vulnerable groups through education, charity, organizing qualitative leisure time for children and youth affirming non-formal education, volunteerism and youth activism. Over the years, SEC has implemented many projects in the field of human and children rights, inclusion, volunteerism and youth activism, prevention of bullying, environmental protection, youth employment etc.
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Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is an independently functioning institutional mechanism, founded by the Western Balkans 6 participants (WB 6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, aiming to promote the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation between the youth in the region through youth exchange programs.
The Agreement on establishment of RYCO was signed by the WB 6 Prime Ministers on WB Summit held in Paris, on July 4, 2017.
RYCO supported the activities of Youth for Peace and its partners through the YOUr Past-Present-Future project implemented during 2018 and 2019, and the project P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education implemented in 2021.
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Mission
Ecumenical Women’s Initiative (EWI) is a non-governmental, non-profit making organisation which supports women as initiators and agents of change in faith communities and in society by supporting and connecting individuals and groups working in the fields of women’s rights, peace building and reconciliation, belief-based ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue & cooperation in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, encouraging networking and cross border cooperation.
Vision
The EWI strives for a just and peaceful society in which diversity is a strength and source of creativity, in which women have a dignified place and role in private and public life in harmony with their competence and personal choice and in which religion promotes and supports the achievement of full equality between women and men.
Values
The EWI seeks to shape its work, approaches and relationships according to the following set of values:
Equality: we believe that God created all people equal and that women and men have the right to equal opportunities regardless of their nationality, ethnic affiliation or religious belief, gender or sex or any other characteristic.
Solidarity: we stand primarily alongside all women in their current situation of injustice as they strive to contribute to a just and peaceful society.
Pluralism: we respect culture and custom, ethnic, religious and national diversity.
Non-violence: we promote the affirmation of our values and respect of others as a precondition to peaceful coexistence and the constructive transformation of conflict.
