A seminar "The Role of the Media in peacebuilding" was held in Sarajevo on 21 to 23 June. The seminar was held in cooperation with Youth for Peace with the Konrad Adenauer Sarajevo Foundation. The seminar brought together 20 young people from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina who are active in civil society and are engaged in various media activities.
This was one of the issues raised by law students and criminology students from Mostar, Banja Luka and Sarajevo, during the seminar "THE CRIME OF MUNICIPALITY: The legal regulation and practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which was held in the period from October 26-28 2018.
From 17th to 19th November this year, Youth for Peace, in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation, has organized a seminar for students of social sciences from University of Sarajevo and University of Eastern Sarajevo. Seminar named „Leaders of social changes“ has given a chance to participants to talk about current situation in bh society, to exchange their experiences, opinions and ideas on those problems. Except interactive workshops of YfP trainers, youth have attended lectures of Ms Amna Popovac and Mr Emir Vajzović, active members of civil society. They have shown by their example and through their experience which abilities individual should posses in order to be active in his/her community.
In the period from May 27th till 29th 2016, on the mountain Bjelasnica, Moot Court Simulation before the European Court of Human Rights was held for law students from Mostar, Banja Luka, Travnik, Zenica, Eastern Sarajevo and Sarajevo. The simulation was organized by Youth for Peace in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
On the first day students had the opportunity to meet each other, but also to listen to the great lectures. During the first session with Ms Elma Veleder Arifagić, a lawyer with long term experience at the European Court of Human Rights, spoke about what is the European Court, what are the legal requirements for the application submission, the Court’s decision-making process, and what the European Convention on Human Rights is. The second session was dedicated to the theme "Freedom of religion - legal sources and practice of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and BiH" through lectures of Mr Emir Kovačević.
The Youth for Peace organization, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation organized a seminar from 23rd to 25th October 2015 for students of the University of Sarajevo and the University of East Sarajevo.
The seminar entitled "Young people in BiH society: Identity, stereotypes and prejudices" gathered 26 students from both universities. The first part of the seminar was dedicated to interactive workshops on identity, stereotypes and prejudices, where young people, along with Youth for Peace organization’s educators, defined the terms and detected the causes of occurrence of stereotypes and prejudices in our society. The focus of the workshops was on the presentation of their own identities, learning about others and those who are different, and acceptance of the them, in order to achieve better communication ie. dialogue with others.
